Figs in West Texas

From the garden ELLEN PEFFLEY

August is fig time. Figs are a low maintenance, troublefree, an easy crop to grow, well adapted to West Texas environment, and the fruit are atypical. Which leads us to several technical terms in today’s column that may help us appreciate this unusual fruit.

We’re going to call fig a “fruit,” but botanically fig is not a fruit, rather a collection of edible, inverted fl…