It's not too early to get started nurturing some new trees. In fact, one fruit species does spectacularly when propagated ...

If you're interested in growing your own fruit trees but live in a colder climate, you still have options. Consider this ...

Maintaining a happy and healthy fig tree is essential if you want to get tasty and juicy fruit, and the key to keeping one in top health is to prune it properly. However, there's an art to this task ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The common fig (Ficus carica) is a small tree native to southwest Asia but ...

Figs are a delightful option for home gardeners, combining sweet, rich flavor and ease of care. Once established, fig trees require minimal maintenance, are drought-tolerant, and can adapt to various ...

No garden? You can still grow your own delicious fruit—just pick cultivars suitable for growing indoors. These are the ones to try, according to expert growers.

The most frequently asked question asked in 2016 concerned fig trees. Readers wanted to know why their fig trees did not produce good fruit. Either the fruit dropped from the tree when it was small, ...

If you enjoy natural sweets, the odds are you've heard of the fig, the dry fig, the fig newton, and the fig roll. Figs are everywhere: they're one of humanity's favourite fruit-tree delights, and they ...

I remember my first encounter with a fig tree at my grandfather's house in Jensen Beach, Fla. How strange, how unique, how tropical, how cool this was. A real live fig, not the brown mush I was used ...

Martin specifically recommends the dwarf fig Ficus carica ‘Fignomenal’ as her top pick for growing in pots. This pint-sized ...