To prune a fan-trained fig tree, reduce young shoots that have grown from the year before in spring. Older trees may require you to cut back old, bare branches.

Fig souring (or sour rot) renders fruit inedible. It’s caused by yeast and bacteria, usually spread by insects. You’ll know it by the fermented smell, clear ooze from the fig’s eye and eventually, ...

Our guide on how to plant and care for fig trees has expert tips on how to water, fertilize, prune, and propagate it to grow the best-tasting fruit possible.

Figs are one of the easiest fruits to grow. If you follow these tips, they can thrive in a container or small garden.

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...

Depending on the weather and your pruning practices, your fig could grow into a shrub or tree form. Shrubby plants with multiple stems growing from the ground are best wrapped for winter.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A couple weeks ago we discussed various types of fig trees which perform well in ...

Locals triumph against council to stop 80-year-old tree from getting the axe There’s been a major update after residents kicked up a stink over the removal of a decades-old fig tree that was ...

Fig fruit grows on old and new growth. Pruning back will delay fruit production, but if you're growing figs in a container and sheltering them from the winter cold, you should prune them for the ...

A dedicated community has successfully come together to save a decades-old weeping fig in Sydney from getting the axe.