Harvesting fresh raspberries from your home garden is a fulfilling experience, and with some thoughtful pruning, you can maximize your harvest. By removing old and diseased canes and thinning out new ...

The only thing better than eating a bowl full of ripe raspberries is being able to harvest those raspberries from bushes in your own garden. While raspberries do not last long once they are ripe, if ...

Raspberries are a relatively easy fruit to grow at home, if you have space for large shrubs in full sun. Just be sure you are willing to brave the thorns of these vigorous plants to prune them every ...

Raspberries, a favorite of many home gardeners, are relatively easy to grow, and are hardy and productive in most of Iowa. If given proper care, a 100-foot-long row of red raspberries can produce 100 ...

Q: I'm not sure what type of red raspberry plants I have, but I'm guessing everbearing since they're still producing raspberries now. What should be done to these plants at the end of the season? I ...

"Bramble" is the common name for the genus Rubus which includes raspberries, blackberries and their hybrids and cultivars. The term bramble is used to denote “thorniness” a common trait among these ...

Dear Jane: Can you tell me how and when to prune hardy raspberry bushes? My mom has had them for years but can't remember whether she cut them back after the leaves dropped or just cut them off before ...

This fall I discovered a job that I dislike more than cleaning the leaves out of down spouts. Up until now scooping the leaves, pine needles and twigs that have accumulated in the bottom of the spouts ...

Everbearing yellow raspberry plants in New Paltz, N.Y. Gardeners can get better raspberries and blackberries by training and pruning their bushes -- or brambles. (Lee Reich) I wince when someone tells ...

The harvest of raspberries slows about now, each day bringingfewer and smaller berries. No need to bemoan being bumped out of midsummer raspberryheaven, though. Fall bearing raspberries are soon to ...

Don’t prune your forsythia, lilac or mock orange yet. Anything you cut off now will result in that much less of a flower show this spring. Except for these and many other spring-flowering shrubs, ...