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ninnymary

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I have been looking for something called fig bread ever since she told me about it. Would love to surprise her with a loaf, I put it in mailbox with a note :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
What You'll Need
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar (may reduce to 2 cups)
  • 2 cups ripe figs, mashed
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk, well shaken
  • 1 cup chopped pecans
How to Make It


Heat the oven to 350 F (180 C/Gas 4). Grease and flour two 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pans (or three small loaf pans).

In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat the eggs. Add the sugar and beat well. With the mixer on low speed, add mashed figs and vegetable oil.

Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.

Add the flour mixture to the first mixture alternating with the buttermilk. Beat until well blended.

Fold in chopped pecans.

Bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Makes 2 large or 3 small loaves, about 20 to 24 servings.
 

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So, I know this isn't the right time of year to do this, but since we are having plenty of rain every day and the rhubarb plants aren't doing much of anything great, I decided to move them. I moved the scrawniest one all in one piece, to the middle of the garden where the soil has better drainage and it gets full sun.

The other plant seemed to have split into two separate plants on the same root, so I just hacked into that space with the shovel and took the smaller section to transplant. Some of the root fell off it in two pieces, so I planted those roots in other spots in the middle of the garden, in hopes they will sprout crowns.

I know that's not the way to do it, but what have I got to lose here...these plants barely produce compared to other people's rhubarb. Maybe this will shock them into growing better. I just know that the place they've been in for the past 4 yrs doesn't drain well(at the lower end of the garden) and hasn't done them a bit of good, no matter how much I feed them.

I still have to transplant the main, bigger plant but a storm came through and is now raining cats and dogs, for which I'm most grateful...we needed more cats and dogs. The storm cooled it down from 96* to 75* real quick and in a hurry. Supposed to stay in the low 80s for the next couple of days and I'm fine with that.

Cut the overgrown and gone to seed chives off so we can grow some tender, new chives for our salads.

Spread hay on thin spots that were showing signs of growing some hay, ripped out some creeping Charlie along the fence line.

Found I can't use my wonderful scuffle hoe in the hay...it just displaces the hay and creates more spots that are bare to the sun where a piece of grass can grow. Thankfully, little pieces of grass/hay are the only weeds really IN the garden this year, with some creeping Charlie sidling in over the landscaping timbers from the lawn.
 

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So, I know this isn't the right time of year to do this, but since we are having plenty of rain every day and the rhubarb plants aren't doing much of anything great, I decided to move them. I moved the scrawniest one all in one piece, to the middle of the garden where the soil has better drainage and it gets full sun.

The other plant seemed to have split into two separate plants on the same root, so I just hacked into that space with the shovel and took the smaller section to transplant. Some of the root fell off it in two pieces, so I planted those roots in other spots in the middle of the garden, in hopes they will sprout crowns.

I know that's not the way to do it, but what have I got to lose here...these plants barely produce compared to other people's rhubarb. Maybe this will shock them into growing better. I just know that the place they've been in for the past 4 yrs doesn't drain well(at the lower end of the garden) and hasn't done them a bit of good, no matter how much I feed them.

I still have to transplant the main, bigger plant but a storm came through and is now raining cats and dogs, for which I'm most grateful...we needed more cats and dogs. The storm cooled it down from 96* to 75* real quick and in a hurry. Supposed to stay in the low 80s for the next couple of days and I'm fine with that.

i don't think they'll regrow from bits of root, but if you have an eye/crown with bits of root on it they should be ok. i suspect your lack of drainage and not much sunlight would be why they've not done great.

even if you had one plant that was weak, they so often sprout new plants that the wak plant would be overgrown by the new one, so i'd not worry about that being the case. i guess the other consideration is what kind of rhubarb and if it perhaps isn't suitable for your location. i know there are different varieties... we've only had the one kind here and it's been almost impossible to kill (not that i've tried), but i've done transplants in late July which is about as bad as it gets around here... they survived.
 

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