July in Louisiana marks many celebrations, one of which is fig harvest season. Figs (Ficus carica), native to the Middle East and western Asia, have become naturalized in North America and are widely ...

Brian Melton of Fresno is an admitted fig fanatic. He eats them everyday and can easily name more than 100 different varieties that he’s devoured. Melton’s fascination with figs began as a hobby about ...

Fresh figs are ones of the treasures to seek out at late summer markets. Here are the ones to look for, and how to cook with them. Andee Gosnell is a San Francisco born, Birmingham-based food ...

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.

It's not too early to get started nurturing some new trees. In fact, one fruit species does spectacularly when propagated ...

Fig season is well underway, and many fig varieties are wrapping up their production while others are still going strong. Fig season can run from mid-June to early October, depending on the varieties.

Chicago Hardy, Little Miss Piggy, Black Mission, Celeste, Brunswick, Kadota, Calimyrna, Marseilles and Brown Turkey are just a few of the varieties of figs available in the United States. Most common ...

When my family moved to Florida in the early '50s, the property purchased by my parents included strange and wonderful things like pecan trees, crape myrtles, a chinaberry tree (oh, no!), and figs. My ...

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

Farmer Rick Knoll says it wasn't an apple that got Adam and Eve kicked out of the garden; it was figs. They're the sexiest thing there is, says Knoll, who grows seven fig varieties on his California ...