Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard.

You may train your fig into a large bush-like shape with several trunks, or into a more typical tree shape with a single trunk. Pruning established figs is best done by late February. Pruning helps to ...

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

The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece ...

Dear Helen: I have two fig trees. One, a Desert King, yields a big first crop. The other, smaller fig tree (unknown variety) does not get a first crop that ripens. The first crop figs do not develop ...

Dutifully, I bite into one fresh fig after another during a backyard discovery tour in Bethlehem. I’m trailing along behind fig fanatic Bassem Samaan, who schools my taste buds to appreciate figs ...