"It’s remarkable that a city as diverse as New York doesn’t do more to honor that diversity by planting a wider variety of ...

Grow figs in pots or outside in your garden for homegrown fruit Growing figs can be extremely rewarding—even beginning growers can learn how to grow a fig tree in a small yard or roomy planter ...

Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good ... Follow our guide to growing an espalier apple tree. To protect your fruit tree from moths that will destroy the fruit and leaves, apply ...

Rather than a fig tree's blossoms being pollinated by bees—as happens with apples, for example—the fig fruit is an inverted flower. A small wasp crawls inside the fruit to pollinate it and ...