Yes, you can grow fruits like strawberries, bananas, and grapes even if you don't have a yard - and the best part is you can ...

Fig trees don't need a lot of pruning throughout the year but can benefit from pruning during their dormancy (late winter or ...

BOTANICALLY and historically, figs are a bit of a curiosity. The fig (Ficus carica) is a distant relative to the mulberry and the jackfruit. Native to western Asia, figs spread by human cultivation to ...

Figs are much easier to grow than any other fruit tree. because the fruit develops on both old and new wood. Even during cold winters when branches die back, it’s still possible to get fruit. And ...

One of the most popular houseplants today is the fiddle leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). Yet this arboreal gem is also a candidate ...

Pat Morgan of Westlake Village wrote to the SoCal Garden Clinic to ask: My fig tree was started from a cutting three years ago and was recently transplanted to our atrium. It has been in a container ...

My friend has a great fig tree, and I would like to grow one like it in my yard. What is the best way to root a piece of his tree? — Larry Haley Figs are easy to propagate from dormant, hardwood ...

QUESTION: What is the procedure for rooting a fig tree from a limb of an existing mature fig tree? -- Freddy Hebert ANSWER: Figs trees are easy to propagate from dormant, hardwood cuttings taken this ...

Growing figs in New Jersey may seem like just another case of zone denial, a flat refusal to believe that we are living in the Northeast, not the Mediterranean. But it's really more than that -- Old ...

arol Gorenberg writes: I planted a white Genoa fig tree nine years ago and have kept it compact and nicely shaped to form the focal point of my small, sunny West Santa Rosa yard. It is beautiful and ...

I am not particularly fond of fig trees, with their knotty trunks contrasted against tropical-looking foliage. And even though the fruit is photogenic, I also don’t hold much enthusiasm for it fresh.