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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compared to spring and summer, winter might seem like the off-season for gardeners, with nothing to do but wait for their plants ...

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 ...

When the thermometer drops and it's brisk outside, it's easy to push yard work to the bottom of the list. Tackling berry brambles, especially, doesn't seem like a fun task while you're shivering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

There’s an old saying in pruning: “Prune until it hurts, and then prune some more.” The advice helps overcome our fear of cutting away too many branches. Other pruning adages are less useful. “When in ...