With figs gaining popularity on social media, three nutritional therapists share why the fruit is so beneficial for health.

Fig fruit are technically inverted flowers so this fertilizer will encourage healthy fruits. Container grown figs need to be fertilized regularly, but in the ground, no fertilizer is required for ...

If a fig tree only produced fruit on this wood, then fruiting would be fairly easy to control. Cut off all of last year's growth. It wouldn't take long time and there would be no fruit that summer.

We get fig “fruit” (technically flowers) when a female fig wasp, carrying pollen, enters a female fig accidentally. She pollinates the flower and the fig flower grows inside.

Figs have a long juvenile period, or length of time in which a plant will not produce fruit -- possibly four years to five years. It is important to not overfertilize plants.

Most species of figs are pollinated by various kinds of wasps that enter the young fruit and pollinate the flowers within. Fortunately, most common fig varieties are able to produce mature fruit ...

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 ...