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.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The common fig (Ficus carica) is a small tree native to southwest Asia but ...

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