SAN LEON - I drove 500 miles last week - 500 miles and back, in fact - to sample homemade fig preserves, only to discover that my Marathon friends Rosalinda and her husband Tomas were all out. "I had ...

The past couple of weeks we’ve discussed plant diseases and pests…enough with the "darker side of gardening." Let’s redirect our focus to another area fruit! Figs (which are a personal favorite of ...

Perhaps one of the more iconic trees growing next to older homes in East Texas is a fig tree. Figs are one of the first fruits planted by settlers. Figs also are mentioned numerous times in the Bible.

Summer is officially here! Most of us would argue that summer arrived in Southeast Texas more than month ago (I certainly would). Hot and humid conditions and a “moisture-rich” environment are ...

Following two years of frustrations with our family’s fig tree and zero fig production, 2023 has finally brought figs to our table. Northeast Texas fig tree owners recall the effect of Snomageddon ...

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 ...