Temperatures are warming, and it is time to get out in the yard again. One of the first orders of business is pruning shrubs, roses, fruit trees, and raspberries. Many gardeners are intimidated by ...

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

Raspberries, a favorite of many home gardeners, are relatively easy to grow, and are hardy and productive in most of Iowa. If given proper care, a 100-foot-long row of red raspberries can produce 100 ...

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 crowns live for many years, but their canes are biennial meaning they live for two years. Each year new shoots grow from buds in the crown. Late in that first summer, these new canes develop ...

March is a busy time for pruning. Go ahead and prune shade trees, hardy fruit trees, summer blooming shrubs, grapes and raspberries. Evergreens like Japanese yew, Juniper, Arborvitae and spruce can ...

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 ...

It’s not too early in the year to begin doing a few simple chores to help raspberries and blackberries stay healthy and bear more fruit. Bernadine Strik, a berry crops specialist with the Oregon State ...

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 ...