"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pruning is an important part of caring for any raspberry plants. Black raspberry plants (Rubus occidentalis), which grow in USDA Hardiness Zones 5 to 9, spread quickly, but that doesn't necessarily ...

Raspberries aren’t hard to prune, that is if you have the “regular” kind and can recognize older, dead canes. If this sounds like your raspberry patch, prune off the old canes at the base after ...

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 ...

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.