Cooler evenings, shorter days, and a quiet race against frost: gardeners across the country are trying a surprisingly swift trick. As autumn beds in, a ...

Growing a potted fig tree is a rewarding process, and can be done year-round with the right conditions. Place the container outside during the summer and bring it back inside if you live in a region ...

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 ...

As the autumn weather sets in, with shorter days, longer nights, it may feel strange to head out into the garden to engage in an act of gardening. However, the autumn and winter are important times to ...

Brian Melton cultivates over 300 fig varieties in Fresno through grafting. Local customers buy Melton's figs directly via social media and porch pickup. Fresno remains key to U.S. fig production, ...

Q: Last night I weeded my flowerbeds and pulled a lot of St. Augustine runners up. Can I plant those? I have them in a pan of water. I’ll probably have more as I do more weeding. I have bare areas I’d ...

UPPER POTTSGROVE — The Pennsylvania Fig Festival will return this year with a flavorful celebration of one of nature’s most unique fruits. Held at the Althouse Arboretum, 1794 Gilbertsville Road, on ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...

EUCLID, Ohio -- The City of Euclid has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Cuyahoga County Healthy Urban Tree Canopy Program to support ongoing efforts to preserve and enhance the community’s urban ...

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...