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 ...

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 ...

Pruning is the secret to a healthy harvest. Harvesting fresh raspberries from your home garden is a fulfilling experience, and with some thoughtful pruning, you can maximize your harvest. By removing ...

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.

Raspberry crowns live for many years, but their canes are biennial meaning they live for two years. Each year new shoots grow from buds in the crown. Late in that first summer, these new canes develop ...