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 ...

Q: How do you put raspberry bushes "to bed" for the winter? Do you trim them way down? Cover with any mulch? Any ideas would be helpful. - Carla Gustin, West Fargo A: The most important fall activity ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to prune your berry patch, with different approaches for floricanes and primocanes. Berry season is just around the corner, and NOW is the time to prune your raspberry and blackberry bushes. In ...

It’s a banner fruit year on the farm. The sour cherry is full of small red globes, the black raspberry bushes are bursting with berries and clusters of grapes hang heavy on the arbor. In the early ...

Some years ago, my husband planted a long row of raspberry bushes in our backyard. It took a lot of waiting for the plants to mature and produce good raspberries. For the last three years, though, ...