If you're lucky enough to have a fig tree, you're probably harvesting some of those sweet, fat fruits right now. If you don't have a fig tree, look for them at the farmers market. Cook This: Better ...

Growing a potted fig tree is a rewarding process, and can be done year-round with the right conditions. Place the container outside during the summer and bring it back inside if you live in a region ...

If the birds offer any clue, this is a very, very busy time of year. Every seed tumbling from shriveled flower heads must be pecked up (or in the case of sunflowers, directly helped from their tight ...

A mature fig tree grew in the sunny corner of the postage-stamp-sized back garden of the storefront apartment I rented for most of my twenties. More a bush, really, it had been planted by my landlord ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In all my Septembers at the Staten Island Advance, one thing is certain: where there’s a fig tree, there’s a story. And at this very time of the year as fruit harvests do — or ...

Never mind what the calendar says about the autumn equinox — I go on other seasonal cues to know that summer is over in a week. Mother nature isn’t that mysterious. For example, I just saw my first ...