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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS – Established raspberries (including Meeker and Willamette) and blackberries (including marionberries, boysenberries and loganberries), need some late winter-early spring care to stay ...

It may sound strange, but blackberries are a fruit I don’t remember eating much as a child. I grew up eating raspberries in our home garden, but never blackberries. I am from northern Illinois, and ...

Question: When should we prune our raspberries? We planted ours a year ago and barely got a crop. Thank you. Answer: Late winter into early spring is time to prune cane berries, including established ...

Q Five years ago, I planted a red raspberry bush in the sunniest part of my garden. It grew well but never had more than a dozen or so berries, which always dried up before they matured. I planted ...

Q: In April I created a cactus garden and I have it under a grow light for 12 hours a day. It has started growing some skinny tops on some of the plants. Will these fill out, or just get more gangly?

Q.: I have some "September" everbearing raspberries that bear every July. When they finish, I cut down the stalks down to the ground. They are brown by then. Last September, the new shoots got to be ...