black raspberry bush with three large clusers of ripe and unripe berries - Milanika/Getty Images Pruning is an important part of caring for any raspberry plants. Black raspberry plants (Rubus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Raspberries are bramble-type fruit plants that send up new shoots from the ground every year. They’re generally hardy in USDA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

I am getting questions about when to prune raspberries — spring or fall? To be clear, this is not the same thing as getting rid of the canes that produced this year. They are finished and should be ...

When I wrote about growing raspberries in Alaska, Charlotte Porter got in touch with me and wanted to tell me about her success growing Kiska raspberries and her pruning techniques at her Two Rivers ...