In addition to providing shade and beauty to your yard—not to mention delicious fruit—fig trees also help with soil retention and erosion control. Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's ...
Luckily for those of us that live on smaller home lots, fig trees can very easily be pruned to a tidy, compact form, even a tiny 6 by 6 feet, although a larger canopy will produce more fruit. Figs can ...