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 ...
Raspberry canes produce big yields of succulent berries when planted in full sun and rich, well-draining soil. To make your brambles grow even better and simplify harvesting, a raspberry trellis is ...
A bit of summer pruning goes a long way to keeping your raspberries healthy and productive. So, get out the mosquito netting, long sleeves and pruners and get busy. The summer harvest is produced on 2 ...
About 30 years ago we planted raspberries near our front door. They did well until the deer found them and nibbled them down to just a few hardy canes. Years went by and those few hardy canes took ...
Now that freezing weather has finally arrived, it’s time to cut back fall-bearing raspberry canes. I like to wait until the raspberry plants are exposed to a hard freeze before cutting them down.
If you're considering growing raspberries this year, one of the first things you need to understand is the difference between primocanes and floricanes –- no, these aren't fancy cultivars, but rather ...
Up until now it’s been a good November to be working outside. This has given us an opportunity to continue working on fall gardening chores. One of those fall chores is cutting back fall raspberry ...
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 ...
Sorry, but that’s incorrect. But thanks for playing. In the botanical sense (here we go again), raspberries are an aggregate fruit. According to Britannica ...
Who says gardening has to stop when the snowflakes start to fly? Getting outside and plucking sun-ripened berries in the height of summer doesn't have to begin with a rush of spring planting. You can ...