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

Tom Mashour discusses how to start cool-season vegetables and Bill Colvard talks about figs. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Master Gardener Tom Mashour discusses and ...

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 ...

Learn how to prune fig trees to keep them healthier and more productive. Homegrown figs are a tasty treat and if you live in a climate where they grow well, it's well worth planting one in your yard.

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're growing fig trees where temperatures drop below freezing for extended periods, then an ounce of protection can be worth a pound (or more!) of figs. Native to Mediterranean Europe, Asia and ...