Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It is my opinion that by far the easiest fruit to grow in SETX are figs! Common ...

Blueberries, figs and small fruits like blackberries are easily grown in the home garden. Blueberries are delightful eaten ...

Figs also are ripening now. The easiest and most desirable varieties to grow in San Antonio are the Celeste, Texas Everbearing and Brown Turkey.

Our guide on how to plant and care for fig trees has expert tips on how to water, fertilize, prune, and propagate it to grow the best-tasting fruit possible.

If your tree is in a container pruning will help control size and encourage branching. Cooked fig leaf wrapped fish meal. (Photo by Emmy Ulmschneider) Try sugar baked figs for dessert.

If your tree is in a container pruning will help control size and encourage branching. Brown Turkey figs typically produce two crops each year.

The mature size of the Brown Turkey fig is between 10-25 feet tall, but container-grown figs tend to stay much smaller. Still, you can expect your tree to get up to 8 feet tall and almost as wide, so ...

For root-knot nematodes, there is currently no treatment to kill the pest, but proper tree care can prolong the life of your fig tree. You can reduce the damage nematodes cause by amending the soil ...

Figs and pruning The ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree lives in an extra-large pot, and goes into the barn for the winter.