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 ...

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 ...

Q: In your discussion of pruning raspberries, you specify June-bearing types. I have so-called "ever-bearing" raspberries, which as you know, have two crops per year, although the fall crop is often ...

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 ...

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 ...

This fall I discovered a job that I dislike more than cleaning the leaves out of down spouts. Up until now scooping the leaves, pine needles and twigs that have accumulated in the bottom of the spouts ...

Did you know the common cultivated Raspberry that is easy to grow in your garden, is actually derived from 3 different species of raspberry? The European Red, the wild (N. American) Red, and the ...

As summer comes to an end, it's easy to assume that things in the garden will also start to wind down – but don't be too hasty to hang up your gardening gloves, as there are still plenty of important ...

I had an inquiry about growing raspberries. Raspberries are fairly easy to grow, but can get out of hand without care. The University of Minnesota has good information that should help. I’ve also ...

It's easy. Relax. You've never been in better hands. Her name is Cass Turnbull and she's on intimate terms with anything that's ever needed pruning. Cass is the founder and current president of ...