Another season of tending the berry patch winds down with another year's worth of lessons learned and reinforced. A good gardener is always learning, always evaluating what works and what does not, ...
The raspberry patch can become a wild and overgrown area at the end of the year and so is one of the early fall chores for me each year. The stems on some varieties die after the fruit is borne while ...
A raspberry patch bursting with firm, juicy fruit rarely grows by chance. Raspberries are naturally vigorous growers, but without a bit of direction, their canes can quickly turn into a wild, tangled ...
I do some of my best thinking in the raspberry patch. At the end of a mind-numbing day that has frazzled me, from late July until the first hard frost, I often end up picking red raspberries from our ...
A plant just appeared this year in my yard. Should I let it grow as a ground cover or is it a problem? A bright light in the invasive plant battles, Canadian clearweed is able to adapt to soils ...
STANDING IN THE barn-red shed to avoid the pelting rain, Nick Pate looks out the door at his struggling raspberry patch. “They’re dying a slow death,” he says. In past summers, berry lovers have ...
A gardener in Poland found much more than just weeds when he started working in his raspberry patch. The chore revealed a 4,500-year-old tool. Sławomir Brzozowski was pulling weeds from a raspberry ...