How to grow figs in pots Figs in pots are easier to keep restricted in size. The traditional advice is to restrict the planting pocket to reduce the growth. I have never done this, but if I did decide ...

Figs are extraordinarily tolerant of having their roots (and tops) heavily manicured. By removing the bases of pots on those grown outside, I don’t have to feed or water the plants once they are ...

Ever since childhood I’ve had something of a mild obsession with ripe, garden-grown figs, a fruit that seemed more the stuff of Victorian gardening books than reality. Once as a young girl I was given ...

My friend has a great fig tree, and I would like to grow one like it in my yard. What is the best way to root a piece of his tree? — Larry Haley Figs are easy to propagate from dormant, hardwood ...

Planting a tree seems, on the face of it, very straightforward. Short of planting it upside down, after all, what could possibly go wrong? You simply dig a hole, place the roots into said hole, ...

I’ve been tending fig trees for years as a gardener, but one that always comes to mind is a grand ‘Brown Turkey’ espaliered flat against a vast stone barn in South Wales. The garden sat at the bottom ...

Last year, I purchased a dwarf fig, bare root, from Duluth Trading Company out of Michigan. It grew well this summer in a pot outside. As the temperatures cooled this fall, it seemed to go dormant. I ...

One of my friends at the pool asked me if we really could grow and harvest the figs in Ohio. From the latest research I have done, what I discovered is yes, you can grow them and there is a potential ...

January weather makes it easy to care for this cheaper plant option but preparation is key January is a good time to plant bare-root rose bushes. Photo: Getty Images Lemon tree Sarcococca confusa On a ...