Eaten fresh from the tree or cooked in a multitude of dishes, figs are a favorite naturally sweet snack packed with nutritional goodness. One of the oldest “fruits” in recorded history, figs grow on ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's a lot to love about fig trees—especially if you're lucky enough to have one in your own backyard.

Of all the Figs, Chicago Hardy is seen to be most winter hardy. These fig trees can be planted in the ground in as low as zone 5. In this video I show my two fig trees that I'm growing in my zone 6b ...

Your good advice got my baby fig safely through the last winter and now I want to know if I need do anything to help it through this one. No longer a baby, it is now about 6 feet tall and seems very ...

How do you measure success when you grow fruit trees? Is it how quickly you can pick the first harvest? Is it the quantity or the quality of the fruit that is produced? Perhaps is it more about how ...

July in Louisiana marks many celebrations, one of which is fig harvest season. Figs (Ficus carica), native to the Middle East and western Asia, have become naturalized in North America and are widely ...

No garden? You can still grow your own delicious fruit—just pick cultivars suitable for growing indoors. These are the ones ...