Companion Planting & Garden Value: Fig

Ficus carica

Spacing: needs about 16 square feet per plant. Mature height: 8-15 ft.

Pollination

Self-fertile: one plant, on its own, sets fruit. Common fig, the type sold for home gardens, is parthenocarpic: it sets fruit without pollination at all, no wasp or second tree needed. (Smyrna-type figs are the commercial exception, needing a caprifig tree and its specialist wasp: not relevant to a home planting of a common-type cultivar like Brown Turkey or Celeste.) (source)

Plant these nearby

No well-established companions.

Keep these apart

Nothing it needs to be kept away from.

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Companion planting for Fig: which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.

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