People sometimes say they are not interested in figs because they did not like Fig Newtons. A fresh fig is nothing like a Fig Newton. They are really sweet and delicious!
As I’m watching this I’m slicing figs to dehydrate. I’m picking every few days to dehydrate, this is my 3ed round. So we pick as the ripen. Not going to volume, but if I change my mind to can, I’ll go by this technique. Many thanks.
Wow!!! This vedio is so timely!!! I picked figs yesterday and found this latex was turning my skin red!!! I am allergic to it, LOL!!! I was so shocked. I have picked figs since I was a child and this is a first for me all the rain must have made it worst. I can hardly wait to see all the ways I can preserve these!!! Thank you both and God Bless You!!!
Loved it!! Our trees are having an off year or something. Every third year we have more figs than we know what to do with. This is the year after the third year. No figs at all. But, the leaves are beautiful. So, I am dehydrating all the leaves I can for tea. It REALLY makes some good tasting tea. AND it's good for you!!
The leaves makes great tea. Tastes like green tea. The figs you have do not have the fig wasps. Only certain verities of figs in California needs the wasps. Yours in a common fig which there are 1000 of verities.
Thank you , we had 2 fig trees on last property but we lost our only Daughter April age 19 , an moved to a different home with land in 2016 Montgomery County, Texas . I want to plant a few , we love fig. With ur help & sweet Wanda im starting again have 16 container on my Deck & on land planted alot .thank u for all you porch talks etc . Our Daughter was/ very very religious she went to church every Wednesday & Sunday even church youth counseler, I miss her 24/7 ..God bless you all 🙏🙏🙏🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 Josette Tharp
I'm one of those that is alergic to that fig juice. Ms Wanda's trick of putting oil on your hands gets that stuff off perfectly. After I mess with figs I put oily lotion on my hands, wash them with Dawn and put on more lotion, and my hands are perfect! I can touch my eyes, the skin under my nails doesn't get sore, my hands are just fine. I can't say how much I appreciate this tip. I've been dealing with this for 75 years and more and this works!
I heard you mention that you don’t like sweet. I just learn from ag extension that sugar is just to help with color and texture. So I canned pears with zero sugar -vjust water and lemon juice. They turned out great ! I have a baby fig tree I can’t wait to try this “ round robin” canning method with them.
Those figs look delicious. I have the video saved so if I ever get figs from my tree I can do this. It seems God likes to put random things in my yard. A couple years ago it was a fig tree that I thought was a weird looking weed at first. A few years before that was a big elderberry bush. Yesterday I found a white oak sapling in my front yard. ❤️
I used to have a neighbor who let me pick figs. We loved putting then up. We planted a fig tree last year of our own. I can’t wait to have figs I can put up and share with froends!
My Grandma used to can figs that I climbed up into her fig trees and got for her. They were SOOO good! We had them with her fresh baked biscuits. Enjoyed your video. Thank you.
omg, I can't wait for my two fig trees to get this big. It's now August in Texas and my figs are ripening and they are so delicious. They actually taste a little like good wine....blu cheese here I come....lol!
Thank you Miss Wanda for sharing your figs canning recipe with us. If people wants the recipe all they have too do is write down this blogs and go back and watch it again. God bless the both of ya
We do it a little different, but I'm going to try this way next year. Our old tree is looking bad. No figs last year and just enough this year to make 6 pints of strawberry fig jam. I went out and bought and planted 2 more fig trees.
Great video! I love figs and this year have Friends with fig trees who don’t like figs and offered them to me! So the whole fig in light syrup is how I plan on canning them and some fig preserves for biscuits.
Gracious, Wanda! Those figs are gorgeous! I've only seen fig preserves. The ones you canned seems like the way to go! Thank you. Saving this video for future reference.
Awesome idea.. I love figs and I'm glad I found this video before figs are out of season.. I just made one jar and can't wait to open it maybe in winter in a few months time :) Thanks and Blessings!
I canned a ton of figs last year, (just a figure of speech 😉) I had three different kinds of figs and just canned them all together. I used a half strength lite-syrup recipe because I’m like Danny and want to taste the fruit. They turned out beautifully!
This is perfect timing as my fig appears ready to yield a bumper crop. I'm excited about your method. It all seems easy peasy. Thank you and God bless you.
Thank you for showing others how to can. One thing I noticed you didn't tell that there is suppose to be a rack for the jars to sit upon in the caner. I remember when my mom was canning and we couldn't find the rack (just a round piece of metal with holes in it to keep jars off bottom of caner). She folded a small bath towel and put in bottom making sure it touched all the way around then filled with water. She said it was to keep the bottom of the jars from getting too hot and exploding. Thought you might let beginners know this trick. I have often used this when I was water bathing just a few pints of something (caught on sale at store) in a small stock pot.
This is so crazy, I just watched Shawn James on "My Self Reliance". He lives in the wilderness of Canada and is building a new homestead. He had a beautiful off grid homestead he built with old fashioned tools. Due to a new obnoxious neighbor moving in he sold that property and moved to this property. Today he planted a fig tree in his green house. Today you are canning figs. He also has another channel, Shawn James. Have a blessed day, stay safe and healthy 🙏🥰👍👌🙏✝️🙏🇺🇸🙏
I watch him as well and not only was his reasoning on moving due to his obnoxious neighbor (Who is also a RUclipsr) but building development started happening right out of his backdoor view ...Don't know who it is but Raspberry Rock also mentioned the situation as well. A curious mystery.
We eat our canned figs on top of cottage cheese or Greek yogurt for breakfast. Also.. sometimes I ad a small jar or a few TBLSP of apricot jam to my syrup to flavor it... makes the figs taste fantastic!! GREAT VIDEO WANDA !!
Wow I didn't know how many things you can make with figs. You've been getting quite a bit of rain. We are as well here. Thanks for instructions on cleaning the latex off the figs> I like the Bee Wrap Paper. Thank you for sharing canning the figs, Wanda and for Danny sharing his taste testing them.
Second year of having figs here in central AZ, and still have a lot of jam, so this first harvest I made brandied figs..omg, they are soooo good. Can be used in cakes, quickbreads, sauces, over ice cream, in yogurt, and for gifting. I'm now wanting to make fig candy!
I asked Ms Wanda about the wasps in figs because my daughter is freaked out about that. I told my daughter it means more figs for me, lol. I have one tree, black mission, and I pick & eat them as soon as they start drooping 😉. Thanks Danny!
Figs only have the wasps inside of them if you live in certain areas of southern California, the Mediterranean, or the Middle East in climates that don't freeze. Frosts kill the fig wasp. All figs grown in the US outside of some parts of Southern California are self pollinated and have never had a wasp inside them.
So you leave a 1" head space. The no name lids tend to rust over time versus the name brand lids and are a bit thinner. You don't notice it until you remove the lid in canned goods over two years canned.
I have a huge pear tree , every year it is jam packed with pears, and every year before they have time to get ripe and big enough to pick, some critter comes and takes every last one of them. I don't mind sharing, but there is none left every year!!🌍✝️❤️
Pears need to be picked before they are ripe. They ripen from the inside out. A local extension service can pressure test your pears . Store them in flats or boxes for some time before eating.
Thanks for the video. Always looking for something to do with a bumper crop of figs. Unless you’re in certain areas of California there are no fig wasps. Your figs are “common” figs like brown turkey or Celeste as opposed to Smyrna figs that do require the wasp for pollination. Common figs are parthenocarpic (self-pollinating) and are perfectly delicious fruit.
@@katywrightgallery6523 Smyrna fig growing areas that have wasp populations are in Fresno, Kern and Madera counties (San Joaquin Valley), Riverside, and Imperial counties in Southern California.
My mom once had my aunt rub a fig leaf on a bug bite when I was a kid. She was apparently allergic, and it took YEARS for that blotch to heal up, caused her a lot of misery in that time… We’d never heard of that before, good to know that’s a common thing, I’ll have to tell her…
Because of you I too have a fig tree I need to learn as much as I can about them dehydrating, also please. How do y'all eat the whole figs? I only know recipes for dryer , fresh , and jelly, any ideas on the preserved whole figs would be greatly appreciated. God bless Shalom
Awesome video. Thank you so much for doing it. Will use your recipe for canning figs this year. I've never tried canning them. Have a nice day. God bless
Although the fig tree in my yard, not quite as big as yours. The fruit on it was as big as baseball’s ( not quite ) but very big. So I’m thinking they were a different fruit( species), but I’m not telling a fib . They were every bit three times as big as yours. That was my house in Keystone Heights, Florida. Maybe you can tell me what kind, they were big and purple. Again no lie.
Mine should be ready to pick in a few next month yummy this recipe really helps in what I believe I did wrong last year not putting in lemon juice and I used water from figs to canning instead of the sugar water you had in other pot .thanks so much for sharing your experience and knowledge
That latex from the figs can turn milk into cheese! If you add 15 drops to 1 L of whole milk that has been heated. It will turn into cheese and then you just strain the rest through a cheesecloth.
My dad's fig tree used to take up half the back yard, but a hurricane 🌀 took it out years ago. I just planted one in a half plastic drums this March and it's doing well. An early freeze killed half of the top, so it's branching well. Do you know how to dehydrate figs?
People sometimes say they are not interested in figs because they did not like Fig Newtons. A fresh fig is nothing like a Fig Newton. They are really sweet and delicious!
I know this is about a year later. But I agree. Fig Newtons don't even taste like they have figs in them. Just sugar and tiny seeds.
Gosh, fig newtons are a bad representative for how good figs are
Like the difference between canned tuna and fresh.
I love fig newtons, dried figs, fresh figs, sautéed figs with butter and cinnamon… Figs are pretty dang delicious lol.
@@maki90me too ,bought some so $$$ ,Danny & Wanda are so fortunate
There is nothing better than candied leathery figs to go with grits and eggs with biscuits ..
Ms Wanda, you did a wonderful job. I’ll bet your family loved having a Mom who could do most anything. Quite the roll model! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
good morning. coffee brewing. woke up late. Thank you for your video. It is like having coffee with your best friend neighbor.
As I’m watching this I’m slicing figs to dehydrate. I’m picking every few days to dehydrate, this is my 3ed round. So we pick as the ripen. Not going to volume, but if I change my mind to can, I’ll go by this technique. Many thanks.
Wow!!! This vedio is so timely!!! I picked figs yesterday and found this latex was turning my skin red!!! I am allergic to it, LOL!!! I was so shocked. I have picked figs since I was a child and this is a first for me all the rain must have made it worst. I can hardly wait to see all the ways I can preserve these!!! Thank you both and God Bless You!!!
Wanda is a great teacher. So calm and methodical. I love watching to prepare and it feels like family.
Loved it!! Our trees are having an off year or something. Every third year we have more figs than we know what to do with. This is the year after the third year. No figs at all. But, the leaves are beautiful. So, I am dehydrating all the leaves I can for tea. It REALLY makes some good tasting tea. AND it's good for you!!
I need to try this. Do you ever add anything to those leaves or drink the tea plain? What does it taste like?
The leaves makes great tea. Tastes like green tea. The figs you have do not have the fig wasps. Only certain verities of figs in California needs the wasps. Yours in a common fig which there are 1000 of verities.
Which varieties need the wasp?
Yes you are right Danny gives bad information
Thank you , we had 2 fig trees on last property but we lost our only Daughter April age 19 , an moved to a different home with land in 2016 Montgomery County, Texas .
I want to plant a few , we love fig.
With ur help & sweet Wanda im starting again have 16 container on my Deck & on land planted alot .thank u for all you porch talks etc .
Our Daughter was/ very very religious she went to church every Wednesday & Sunday even church youth counseler, I miss her 24/7 ..God bless you all
🙏🙏🙏🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 Josette Tharp
Very interesting! I have a very small fig tree and I'm so glad I learned these things today! Thanks!
I'm one of those that is alergic to that fig juice. Ms Wanda's trick of putting oil on your hands gets that stuff off perfectly. After I mess with figs I put oily lotion on my hands, wash them with Dawn and put on more lotion, and my hands are perfect! I can touch my eyes, the skin under my nails doesn't get sore, my hands are just fine. I can't say how much I appreciate this tip. I've been dealing with this for 75 years and more and this works!
Pam says- Fig leaves can be dried and used as a tea. Like a fruity black tea. Very nice.
I add a new leaf to my nighttime herbal tea. Crushed Mulberry and citrus leaves with camomile put me in a happy place!
I heard you mention that you don’t like sweet. I just learn from ag extension that sugar is just to help with color and texture. So I canned pears with zero sugar -vjust water and lemon juice. They turned out great ! I have a baby fig tree I can’t wait to try this “ round robin” canning method with them.
Good morning Danny and Wanda 🌄☕🌻Thank you for sharing ❤Have a blessed day ✝️❤🇺🇸
good morning. rainy day cool midwest. figs look 😋. we got lucky Earth. we just dodged a CME, time speeds on. ☮ HTGDE.
Those figs look delicious. I have the video saved so if I ever get figs from my tree I can do this. It seems God likes to put random things in my yard. A couple years ago it was a fig tree that I thought was a weird looking weed at first. A few years before that was a big elderberry bush. Yesterday I found a white oak sapling in my front yard. ❤️
Good morning Danny & Wanda! My Grandma (Mommie) used to make fig jelly for us and it was the best ever! GOD bless you two!
I used to have a neighbor who let me pick figs. We loved putting then up. We planted a fig tree last year of our own. I can’t wait to have figs I can put up and share with froends!
I was so hoping you were going to say "start with a gallon of brandy" 😆
My Grandma used to can figs that I climbed up into her fig trees and got for her. They were SOOO good! We had them with her fresh baked biscuits. Enjoyed your video. Thank you.
Thank you for this. You are a wonderful teacher
I love ya'lls channel. Every time I watch ya'lls video's I learn something new. Thank ya'll for taking the time to do this.
PERFECT TIMING THANK YOU JESUS
Those figs look delicious!
Thank you so much for this video. I just bought 2 fig trees yesterday. I didn't know I could water bath can them. 🙂
omg, I can't wait for my two fig trees to get this big. It's now August in Texas and my figs are ripening and they are so delicious. They actually taste a little like good wine....blu cheese here I come....lol!
Thank you Miss Wanda for sharing your figs canning recipe with us. If people wants the recipe all they have too do is write down this blogs and go back and watch it again. God bless the both of ya
Thanks for sharing your wisdom Wanda an Danny always a pleasure ya remind me of home
All the fig trees froze here in central Texas this winter , some are trying to come out from the roots but not doing real good .
Thank you very much!! Gonna go harvest my figs tomorrow and begin your canning process!!
We do it a little different, but I'm going to try this way next year. Our old tree is looking bad. No figs last year and just enough this year to make 6 pints of strawberry fig jam. I went out and bought and planted 2 more fig trees.
I love strawberry figs
The Queen of preserving! Loving this video 😎
🌞 Good morning Danny and Wanda I really enjoyed the video today canning and preserving the fix very interesting
Great video! I love figs and this year have Friends with fig trees who don’t like figs and offered them to me! So the whole fig in light syrup is how I plan on canning them and some fig preserves for biscuits.
planted 3 brown turkey fig tree last week.. hope they make it .. I want some fresh figs
Gracious, Wanda! Those figs are gorgeous! I've only seen fig preserves. The ones you canned seems like the way to go! Thank you. Saving this video for future reference.
CONGRATS! I LOVE FIGS! So great!
Awesome idea.. I love figs and I'm glad I found this video before figs are out of season..
I just made one jar and can't wait to open it maybe in winter in a few months time :) Thanks and Blessings!
The Crazy Dazes video just posted as I was watching this! I’m headed there to see how you cleaned the ‘latex’ from the pot after cooking.
Thank y’all both for the fig, tour and process… For a newbie, it sure helps
Very interesting. I haven't eaten fresh figs for years... brings back childhood memories. Thank you Ms. Wanda.
I canned a ton of figs last year, (just a figure of speech 😉) I had three different kinds of figs and just canned them all together. I used a half strength lite-syrup recipe because I’m like Danny and want to taste the fruit. They turned out beautifully!
Yummmmm! Good lesson Wanda!
This is perfect timing as my fig appears ready to yield a bumper crop. I'm excited about your method. It all seems easy peasy. Thank you and God bless you.
Thank you for showing others how to can. One thing I noticed you didn't tell that there is suppose to be a rack for the jars to sit upon in the caner. I remember when my mom was canning and we couldn't find the rack (just a round piece of metal with holes in it to keep jars off bottom of caner). She folded a small bath towel and put in bottom making sure it touched all the way around then filled with water. She said it was to keep the bottom of the jars from getting too hot and exploding. Thought you might let beginners know this trick. I have often used this when I was water bathing just a few pints of something (caught on sale at store) in a small stock pot.
I have really enjoyed this video. Some very helpful info about canning this wonderful fruit. Thanks
This is so crazy, I just watched Shawn James on "My Self Reliance". He lives in the wilderness of Canada and is building a new homestead. He had a beautiful off grid homestead he built with old fashioned tools. Due to a new obnoxious neighbor moving in he sold that property and moved to this property. Today he planted a fig tree in his green house. Today you are canning figs.
He also has another channel, Shawn James.
Have a blessed day, stay safe and healthy 🙏🥰👍👌🙏✝️🙏🇺🇸🙏
I watch him as well and not only was his reasoning on moving due to his obnoxious neighbor (Who is also a RUclipsr) but building development started happening right out of his backdoor view ...Don't know who it is but Raspberry Rock also mentioned the situation as well. A curious mystery.
Me too
Wonderful, be blessed 🙏
I wasn't sure we could freeze them. Thank you!
Keeping these notes in my back pocket for next year. My baby fig tree has only put out 2 figs so far, but it is just coming back from the hard freeze.
Thanks you for how to can your figs love it steve c from state Oregon 👏
We eat our canned figs on top of cottage cheese or Greek yogurt for breakfast. Also.. sometimes I ad a small jar or a few TBLSP of apricot jam to my syrup to flavor it... makes the figs taste fantastic!! GREAT VIDEO WANDA !!
Thank You so much. You both made my day brighter.
I just love the taste of figs, but never grew a fig tree. Danny, seems like you never need a ladder to pick the bounty!
wow harvesting fig tree's I had no idea they were even produced in the USA---except for ornamental purposes- how awesome
Wow I didn't know how many things you can make with figs.
You've been getting quite a bit of rain.
We are as well here.
Thanks for instructions on cleaning the latex off the figs>
I like the Bee Wrap Paper.
Thank you for sharing canning the figs, Wanda and for Danny sharing his taste testing them.
This was very helpful! Thank you! I have some figs and am going to try this.
Second year of having figs here in central AZ, and still have a lot of jam, so this first harvest I made brandied figs..omg, they are soooo good. Can be used in cakes, quickbreads, sauces, over ice cream, in yogurt, and for gifting. I'm now wanting to make fig candy!
Final product looks really good
I asked Ms Wanda about the wasps in figs because my daughter is freaked out about that. I told my daughter it means more figs for me, lol. I have one tree, black mission, and I pick & eat them as soon as they start drooping 😉. Thanks Danny!
Figs only have the wasps inside of them if you live in certain areas of southern California, the Mediterranean, or the Middle East in climates that don't freeze. Frosts kill the fig wasp. All figs grown in the US outside of some parts of Southern California are self pollinated and have never had a wasp inside them.
This is a great step by step canning video. Thank you!
Thanks so much y’all! Such a great video! Our figs are just ripening now and it’s my first year canning!
So you leave a 1" head space. The no name lids tend to rust over time versus the name brand lids and are a bit thinner. You don't notice it until you remove the lid in canned goods over two years canned.
Thanks for that tip. I am going to use mine for vacuum sealing.
I just do not trust no name lids!
Our figs have a long way to go before they are ready.
Those figs are so pretty!!
I’m cooking figs and canning pears according to your recipe tonite
I just came in from planting Texas cream peas today
Beautiful fig tree !!😊
Looks delicious. Thank you for such an interesting topic.
I have never tasted figs as I live in the north. Those look delicious!
Hey, I leave the top ones for the birds. Nice video. Thank you
Great idea! I'm watching my tree here in far north California!
Thanks for tjis video. I just bought a fig tree and I know it'll be awhile until I get figs from it but still nice to know how to can them. Thanks
I have a huge pear tree , every year it is jam packed with pears, and every year before they have time to get ripe and big enough to pick, some critter comes and takes every last one of them. I don't mind sharing, but there is none left every year!!🌍✝️❤️
The critters are humans.
Pears need to be picked before they are ripe. They ripen from the inside out. A local extension service can pressure test your pears . Store them in flats or boxes for some time before eating.
I love figs, God is GREAT! That's the way how I'm canning
The waste water from blanching would be good to pour on yall's compost pile...
Thanks for the video. Always looking for something to do with a bumper crop of figs. Unless you’re in certain areas of California there are no fig wasps. Your figs are “common” figs like brown turkey or Celeste as opposed to Smyrna figs that do require the wasp for pollination. Common figs are parthenocarpic (self-pollinating) and are perfectly delicious fruit.
Which areas of California? I'm in southern CA, zone 10b
@@katywrightgallery6523 Smyrna fig growing areas that have wasp populations are in Fresno, Kern and Madera counties (San Joaquin Valley), Riverside, and Imperial counties in Southern California.
@@farmerbob4554 tyvm
My sister and I are going to can some pints of figs from my big fig tree this year
I love them I cook them and puting them up
Thank you for sharing! ❤
My mom once had my aunt rub a fig leaf on a bug bite when I was a kid. She was apparently allergic, and it took YEARS for that blotch to heal up, caused her a lot of misery in that time… We’d never heard of that before, good to know that’s a common thing, I’ll have to tell her…
I have a bumper crop of figs this year 2024 . The only problem I have with my figs being eat is June bugs and wasps love it to .
Because of you I too have a fig tree I need to learn as much as I can about them dehydrating, also please. How do y'all eat the whole figs? I only know recipes for dryer , fresh , and jelly, any ideas on the preserved whole figs would be greatly appreciated. God bless Shalom
Danny just eats them whole with breakfast
So beautiful. 😍
Hopefully I can do this this year. My fig tree looks like it's finally going to have a crop of figs this year.
Awesome video. Thank you so much for doing it. Will use your recipe for canning figs this year. I've never tried canning them. Have a nice day. God bless
Great content 👍🏼
Great production, better than any cooking show. You don’t even need the recipe, just follow your directions on this video.👍
Although the fig tree in my yard, not quite as big as yours. The fruit on it was as big as baseball’s ( not quite ) but very big. So I’m thinking they were a different fruit( species), but I’m not telling a fib . They were every bit three times as big as yours. That was my house in Keystone Heights, Florida. Maybe you can tell me what kind, they were big and purple. Again no lie.
@@kirbygulbrandsen4507 mine were like that too. I didn't know there were all kinds of fig trees. Some are ripe when green🤔😳😂
Love love love this video!!!!
Mine should be ready to pick in a few next month yummy this recipe really helps in what I believe I did wrong last year not putting in lemon juice and I used water from figs to canning instead of the sugar water you had in other pot .thanks so much for sharing your experience and knowledge
Oh my.. looks so good..thank you
My friend jus found a fig tree on his property and he said it's loaded with figs so I might pick some and can em now that I know how (:
That latex from the figs can turn milk into cheese! If you add 15 drops to 1 L of whole milk that has been heated. It will turn into cheese and then you just strain the rest through a cheesecloth.
Are you serious? That’s crazy cool!
Our figs are just starting to grow here in Ohio!☺
Great information as always! I’ve never had fig syrup but it sounds awesome!
Next visit we taste test. So you gotta be ready. No diets! Lol
I never knew anything about figs. Other than that they delicious and good for you.
My dad's fig tree used to take up half the back yard, but a hurricane 🌀 took it out years ago. I just planted one in a half plastic drums this March and it's doing well. An early freeze killed half of the top, so it's branching well. Do you know how to dehydrate figs?
Great recipe ,not able to grow fig trees in Canada 😞
Once again - YUMMM!!!!
💜Wanda
Love my figs!!