Fig souring (or sour rot) renders fruit inedible. It’s caused by yeast and bacteria, usually spread by insects. You’ll know it by the fermented smell, clear ooze from the fig’s eye and eventually, ...

Learn how to prune fig trees to keep them healthier and more productive.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A couple weeks ago we discussed various types of fig trees which perform well in ...

Scientists discovered that fig trees in Kenya can store carbon dioxide as calcium carbonate rocks inside their trunks and ...

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...

Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted Curfew after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic calls it a "modern masterpiece." ...

Mature trees may need a sprinkler for 30 to 45 minutes every five to seven days during droughts. Mulching with leaves, pine straw or bark helps retain soil moisture.

Armitage paints on lubugo cloth, which is made from fig-tree bark, in part to ground his work in East African history. His widely acclaimed work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in ...

Armitage paints on lubugo cloth, which is made from fig-tree bark, in part to ground his work in East African history.