How to grow and care for fig trees
Fig trees are some of the easiest fruit trees to grow.
How to Pick the Perfect Fig
More Videos From Sunset If you’ve made the same mistake of biting into a fig before it’s fully ripe, take a look at our ripeness chart. You’ll never make the same mistake again.Our Black Mission fig tree in the Sunset Test Garden has been covered with figs this year. I’ve done my fair share of picking …
Figs Trees: A fig tree can be grown in a large pot. They do well in poor soil, but need a sunny, protected area. Trees tend to produce more fruit when their root systems are restricted, when planting in the ground, dig a hole about 3 feet wide and line with bricks. Mix plenty of bone meal in with the soil. Mulch fig trees in late spring with compost and water in dry weather while the fruit is growing. You can also encourage these trees to produce more fruit by pinching new shoots in spring.
Rooting Figs – How To Propagate Fig Trees
If you enjoy figs, you might be wondering how to propagate fig trees as opposed to buying a replacement. Fig propagation is an economical way to continue or increase production. This article explains more.
fruit tree guilds (fruit-trees forum at permies)
I am wanting to create guilds under my apple trees. I read in another post that day lillies are good. What about camomile, marigolds? Gary
Rooting Figs – How To Propagate Fig Trees
If you enjoy figs, you might be wondering how to propagate fig trees as opposed to buying a replacement. Fig propagation is an economical way to continue or increase production. This article explains more.
Rooting Figs – How To Propagate Fig Trees
If you enjoy figs, you might be wondering how to propagate fig trees as opposed to buying a replacement. Fig propagation is an economical way to continue or increase production. This article explains more.
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Brown Turkey Fig
This week I have planted our first fig tree, Brown Turkey, (I actually wanted Black Genoa but they were too popular and sold out!) I have been promising the kids a garden that even Adam and Eve could feel right at home in, and manage to spare their blushing with appropriate foliage. Of course I'm talking about figs. Its a fruit that has got my children all excited ever since last summer when figs were in abundance at the shops. I have been planning to get one "one day" ever since, but…
News from the Edible Landscape Demonstration Garden
Grape Arbor Garden Entrance Hip Hip Hooray!! We have won first prize for community vegetable garden in the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's City Gardens Contest! The dedicated volunteers who have worked tirelessly from early spring through the hot days of summer are doing a victory dance and chanting "We're Number One!" Well, maybe we just have broad smiles on our faces. Gardeners tend to be more modest folks. What we are definitely doing right now is planning for next season. The garlic…