STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On the “to do” list for this weekend for the Toths of Westerleigh: remove the buckets and wrapping from the fig tree in the yard to unleash a new season. The time will ...

Question for Dan Gill: My fig tree is plentiful with green figs; however, they are not ripening. By this time in previous years, figs were beginning to ripen. Others in Metairie, where we live ...

Fig trees have been around for so long that remnants ... Figs are called inverted flowers because the bloom is on the inside—that’s all the tiny internal seeds you see. A small handful of ...

Flowering on the early fruit trees will begin ... Q: I have a beautiful fig tree in our yard. I love the big leaves, but I hate the figs. We do not eat figs, and it makes a big mess.

Q: My fig tree has gotten frostbitten badly ... I have a weed in my flowerbed that is in bloom now with really long roots that make it impossible to dig out. Weed killers haven’t worked ...

Fruit trees should not be short on water while they ... Figs produce two crops of fruit: an early crop (breba) and a later (main) crop. Early fig production, in my experience, is less affected ...

The ovules are inside the flowers, as they are in other flowering plants. But on a fig tree the flowers themselves are tucked inside an unripe fruit. It’s an inside-out bouquet of up to 10,000 ...

The fruit is actually an inward-blooming flower ... where they take flight in search of another fig tree in which to lay their respective eggs. Once the females pick a plant, they crawl inside ...