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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q.: I have some "September" everbearing raspberries that bear every July. When they finish, I cut down the stalks down to the ground. They are brown by then. Last September, the new shoots got to be ...

The raspberry, with its botanical name Rubus idaeus, belongs to the rose family, which includes around 3,500 species. The raspberry is a hardy, deciduous climbing shrub that comes in a variety of ...

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.

A pair of pruning shears in March can decide the fate of an entire summer harvest. One careless cut can remove future fruit, ...