Figs are extraordinarily tolerant of having their roots (and tops) heavily manicured. By removing the bases of pots on those grown outside, I don’t have to feed or water the plants once they are ...

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.

Figs (Ficus carica cv.) are a brilliant fruiting tree for home gardens, but they are renowned for throwing out suckers – vigorous stem growth that pops up from the roots, often some distance away from ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's a lot to love about fig trees, especially if you're lucky enough to have one in your own backyard ...

Ever since childhood I’ve had something of a mild obsession with ripe, garden-grown figs, a fruit that seemed more the stuff of Victorian gardening books than reality. Once as a young girl I was given ...

Planting a tree seems, on the face of it, very straightforward. Short of planting it upside down, after all, what could possibly go wrong? You simply dig a hole, place the roots into said hole, ...