3 ways to encourage your fig tree fruit If you have only just planted a fig tree or are growing a young plant, it's important to note that it's unlikely you will see fruit for the first few years.

Photo: istockphoto.com Watering Fig Trees Because the roots of fig trees grow near the soil’s surface, regular watering is part of basic fig tree maintenance, especially when the plants are young.

Fig trees thrive in the heat of the Lower, Coastal, and Tropical South. If you live in the Middle South, plant near a wall with southern exposure (as did Thomas Jefferson) so the tree can benefit ...

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Plant your fig in the sunniest spot you can find or train it against a south wall. Cut the tree to about 2 feet tall when you plant it.

As a fig seedling becomes more robust and is on its way to becoming a tree, you must make a decision. Let it grow and take up valuable garden space or remove it.

A: Growing a ficus or fig tree here in Connecticut is not impossible; however, they are a lot of work to overwinter. The ficus is not hardy to our zone 5-6 climate and special care must be taken ...

It was tall, bold and beautiful. No matter where I turned, I couldn't stop seeing the fiddle leaf fig, a tree that seemed to be following me around the trendiest parts of the Bay Area.