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How to grow and care for fig trees to keep them thriving year after year
Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard.
If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.
You may train your fig into a large bush-like shape with several trunks, or into a more typical tree shape with a single trunk. Pruning established figs is best done by late February. Pruning helps to ...
Dear Helen: I have two fig trees. One, a Desert King, yields a big first crop. The other, smaller fig tree (unknown variety) does not get a first crop that ripens. The first crop figs do not develop ...
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Pruning fig trees – The simple healthy cuts that bring years of bountiful harvests
The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece ...
Considered by historians to be the first of the domesticated crops, figs (Ficus carica) have long been part of the cultivated diet of humans, according to evidence that stretches back more than five ...
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