Mm, I Love cherries, I hope his tree does well. I have a recipe for:

Cherry Cheesecake (the recipe calls for 21 oz. can pie filling) you can always use Fresh.


1 9-inch gram cracker pie crust
1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 can (21 oz.) cherry pie filling
1 tub (8 oz.) frozen non-dairy whipped topping, thawed

In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Beat in sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and vanilla. Pour into crust. Refrigerate 4 hours.

Top with thin layer of whipped and cherry pie filling just before serving.

Prep Time 15 min.
chilling time 4 hours
Yield 8 servings

I'm going to make this in warmer weather. Cookie

Janie, this is interesting:

Understanding Allergies -- Treatment

Brook--2 fig trees, oh my, friend wife is a very lucky lady!!! I had one big one a long time ago in Arizona, wonderful.

When I was down in Oregon visiting our friend Randi from FK last fall, she had heard about my love for fresh figs and had a little bowl full from the natural store there when I arrived. Now that's a friend!!
baby those guys,
Nan

Thank you for the link Nan. You take care of your allergies to Hon.
Two fig trees Brook. How lovely. I keep checking at Krogers for fresh figs. I have never tried them. I know Jon's Dad loves fig. He said if I liked them he would put the two of us out a tree or two. Honestly I don't know where he would out one right now. Figs look so lovely on tv when they are serving them.

I fixed some long boxes on the balcony with herbs. Took the rest of my seeds to Jon's Dad to put in the garden. I picked up tons of herb seeds, butternut squash and parsnips. Now that my rosemary bushes died I just picked up 6 packs of the rosemary seed. They will be nice to have during the summer and fall. In the winter I usually make do with dried anyway. A huge greenhouse here in town has gone out of business so we are going to be limited on where to get plants. One of the grocerys stores in town and the hardware store usually open up a greenhouse on their lots but it is mostly flowers. The flea market can be a good place to get veg plants. Im waiting for the cherry tomato plants to come out. I want a nice one for the balcony.

I called the feed store here in town and the baby ducks are going to be in on Tues. My little sister said I could get my nieces a baby duck each for Easter They are gonna love that!

In theory, Kentucky is as far north as figs are hardy. And then not all varieties: only the Brown Turkey and Celeste are hardy here. I ordered the Celeste, cuz it's both better looking and better tasting. Just imagine honey with little gritty things in it.

Even though theoretically hardy, they'll be in containers, so I'll likely have to protect them anyway.

I well remember my granddad and his fig tree in Brooklyn. Every fall he'd wrap it in burlap and tar paper, and cap it with a tin pail to keep everything dry over winter. Those were the purple Italian figs, and I couldn't get enough of them.

Janie: Figs are at least as good tasting as they look on TV. Once you try them you'll be hooked. Even the dried ones (you can find several varieties in the dried fruit section of the market).

Don't be in a rush to buy cherry tomato plants. Friend Wife is setting seed for her cherry and grape tomatoes tomorrow, and it won't be any effort to plant a few extra and send you some---although I don't see how anyone needs more than one cherry tomato plant.

Anyway, it's no big deal for us to ship you as many as you want.

Brook, we have several fig trees around here and we are just a bit North of Kentucky, lol.

They have to be protected from extreme cold for the first couple of years to become hardy enough to survive the winters on there own.