If you want to grow the best raspberries, you need to make sure you are fertilising your plants properly. A gardening expert ...

Now is the best time to harvest raspberries, but one common gardening mistake can seriously damage your bushes unless you ...

In late winter, before the buds swell, Rayburn advises removing any remaining weak, dead, or damaged canes. "Thin the canes, ...

“Raspberry bushes are usually pruned in late winter or early spring, while they are still dormant,” said Spencer Campbell, Plant Clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle.

Q Five years ago, I planted a red raspberry bush in the sunniest part of my garden. It grew well but never had more than a dozen or so berries, which always dried up before they matured.

Fall bearing raspberries are soon to follow.Each cane on your typical red or yellow raspberry grows oneyear, bears fruit in the early summer of its second year, thendies. You do […] Skip to content ...

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 ...

Raspberries on the vine, Aug. 2007. ... It was a four-rower, properly wired up to support berry-laden bushes. The aisles between the rows were just wide enough to slip in and harvest.

Q: How do you put raspberry bushes "to bed" for the winter? Do you trim them way down? Cover with any mulch? Any ideas would be helpful. - Carla Gustin, West Fargo A: The most important fall ...

Insect on Raspberry Bushes Q: I have attached a picture of an insect we have on our raspberry plants. They have coal black bodies with white spots on both their body and legs and seem to hop.