A question for Dan Gill: Could you give me some tips on how to pollinate figs? I have a 2 1/2-year-old tree full of green figs, but they never turn ripe. The figs fall off, and more continue to come ...

Fig trees are one of the easiest fruit trees to grow. Not only can handle extreme heat and drought conditions without affecting fruit quality, but the fruit develops without pollination. Pollination ...

A step-by-step guide to cultivating delicious figs at home.

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.

Figs are one of the most widely planted fruit trees in home landscapes in Louisiana. They thrive in the New Orleans area and are remarkably easy to take care of. With little effort, they will produce ...

Hot buttered biscuits and homemade fig preserves. Need I say more? Figs are one of the most widely planted home fruit trees in Louisiana. They thrive with little effort and produce crops of juicy, ...

Q: I have both a Washington navel orange and Flordaprince peach tree planted this spring that a local nursery claimed was 8 to 10 years old. The peach tree produced lots of small fruit, but the orange ...

You don't always have to wait for too long for a fruit harvest. You can plant these fast-growing trees in early spring for a speedy harvest in a few years.

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. However, there's an art to this task ...

There’s nothing as sweet as enjoying a home-grown fruit harvest, but the wait time can be years for many trees to bear fruit. There are fast-growing fruit trees that can give you fruit quickly, though ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images When choosing a fruit tree for your yard, one of the most important things to consider is whether the tree is ...