Even at his suburban home on East Garland Avenue in northeast Fresno, he grafted a fig tree that produces more than 20 ...

Fig tree. 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.

As a fig tree grows, it automatically produces the green fig-shaped structures at the base of almost every leaf. But until the tree is sufficiently mature, these will not develop into ripe fruit.

Although not huge as trees go, fig trees will grow 15 feet or more high and wide. Make sure there is adequate room where you plant a tree. Also, plant them in a sunny location away from large ...

Birds, bats, monkeys by the dozen: A fruiting fig tree is a riot of life. It all goes back to the tree's ancient partnership with an insect. ByEmma Marris Photographs byChristian Ziegler September ...

A black mission fig or white Genoa fig tree can bear large, sweet fruit from June to November. At my nursery and many areas with little frost, you may see fruit year-round.

No trace of the house. We searched in vain for the fruiting fig tree. Gone as well! We walked in circles, disoriented, not believing what had happened. The entire neighborhood had been uprooted.

Q: My fig tree has not produced any fruit for the past two years. What should I do? A: A few things can explain that. Most likely in our region is winter damage to the branches or winter kill of ...

But I’m seriously poking around my plot for a place to put a fig during the fruit planting season (which is now), when they cost less than at other times of the year. Figs are big bird attractors.

Helping a fig tree bear fruit Published: Apr. 09, 2008, 9:38 p.m. By Valerie Sudol | For Inside Jersey RICH WEIDMAN ...