Luke 13:7-9

7so he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and have found none. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground [depleting the soil and blocking the sunlight]?’

8But he replied to him, ‘Let it alone, sir, [just] one more year until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

9and if it bears fruit after this, fine; but if not, cut it down.’ ”