Compared to spring and summer, winter might seem like the off-season for gardeners, with nothing to do but wait for their plants to wake back up. However, some winter care tasks, especially when it ...

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 ...

In the dead of winter, a raspberry bramble might look, well, dead. Once a dense thicket of soft, green leaves and juicy berries now stands dormant and skeletal, giving little indication of the harvest ...

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 ...

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.

Break out the leather gloves, heavy long sleeve shirt or coat, pruners and head out to your raspberry patch. Proper routine pruning can help reduce the risk of disease, manage insect pests and boost ...

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 ...

Plant raspberries in early spring in a full-sun location with well-drained, amended soil. Avoid planting raspberries where tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, or strawberries were recently grown. Proper ...