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 ...

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 ...

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard.

If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.

Gardeners who prune fruit trees in winter find it is the best season for an all-around view of the subject. "It is much easier to see and make the cut," says South Bay horticulturist Pete Howes. In ...

South African researchers published a new study that provides valuable information for fig growers. The scientists evaluated the number of fruit, budbreak, and shoot growth on 1-year-old shoots for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pruning a fruit tree with woman holding secateurs to limes There's no one month in which all fruit trees should be pruned since ...