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 ...

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

I like maximising growing space for food crops, so in this example, I have a fig tree growing in a container with an ...

You can plant this low-maintenance fruit tree in your yard for an abundance of tasty fruit. Although the common fig tree (Ficus carica) is native to the Mediterranean and central Asia, many U.S.

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

There's a lot to love about fig trees, especially if you're lucky enough to have one in your own backyard. Not only do they have stunning lobed green leaves that can provide ample shade to neighboring ...

In this vintage photo supplied by Gabriel Dalessandro’s aunt, Mary Dalessandro, the family patriarch, also named Gabriel Dalessandro, tends to the fig tree he grew from a cutting he brought from Italy ...

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

If you’ve got fig trees, listen up because there’s a new troublemaker that’s headed our way — the black fig fly (Silba adipata). Hailing all the way from the Mediterranean region, this little critter ...