The fruit on my other fig trees (Celeste, Kadota and Brown Turkey) have been long gone, but my Chicago hardy tree is still making new fruit. Every morning I find three or four ripe ones to eat out of hand. At its peak in August, the birds and I were getting 6 or 8 a day, but now that the numbers have dropped, the birds rarely bother them. A lot of the trees in the neighbourhood were frozen back to the ground by last winter's single digit cold, but mine were unharmed. All of the fig trees at the J C Raulston Arboretum (Kadota, LSU Purple, Violette Bordeaux and a couple of others) were also killed down to the ground. They have all recovered and at least one, Kadota, is loaded with figs, but unless we have a very warm fall, it does not appear they will ripen