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 ...

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 ...

Raspberries are tasty treats from the garden, but they need some maintenance. Prune your plants a few times a year to help ...

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 ...

Shrubs and bushes create attractive barriers, prevent erosion, and host birds and pollinators. With those strengths, it's often easy to think of bushes and shrubs as self-maintaining. But they need ...

This cheery berry grows well in almost all areas of New Zealand, and has relatively few pests and diseases. One of my personal garden highlights of each summer is picking fresh raspberries, as there ...

No matter how much cleanup and prep you do in your garden before winter arrives, there’s always a list of new maintenance tasks each spring. And along with cleaning out garden and flower beds and ...

A few days ago an anguished message came from a lady who said her French lilac shrubs were not blooming this year. "They have always bloomed before for years," she said sadly. "And I love lilacs so ...