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 ...

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 ...

Q: I'm not sure what type of red raspberry plants I have, but I'm guessing everbearing since they're still producing raspberries now. What should be done to these plants at the end of the season? I ...

March and early April are prime-time for pruning raspberries, but before you get started, you need to know what type of raspberries you have. There are several types of raspberries. For Summer-Bearing ...

"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 ...

Lisa Slattery, Linn County Master Gardener, offers timely tips on pruning raspberries: This is the first in a series for pruning small fruits in the Iowa home garden. Today's blog will cover ...

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 ...

Learn how to grow and care for different types of raspberries in your garden or container. Reviewed by Sylvia Duax Nothing compares to fresh raspberries plucked straight from the plant. They are ...

Q: I didn't get any fruits from my raspberry bushes for the first five years until I realized what I was doing wrong: I was cutting back the bushes at the end of the growing season in late October.