Description: A popular bramble that grows 4 to 6 feet tall and bears tasty deep red fruit annually on floricanes in summer, on primocane tips in autumn and primocane bottoms the following summer.
If you want to grow raspberries next year, now is the time to decide what kind you want and to prepare your bed. First, lay out where you’re going to put them. Dig or till in lots of compost, peat ...
"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 ...
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 ...
All the raspberries and blackberries that are now ripening do not come without a price. The canes that produce them may grow like weeds, and in many gardens really are weeds, but they need quite a bit ...
Given the opportunity, blackberry and raspberry canes become rampant thickets. The trick is to keep them contained and controlled so that they can produce berries without conquering the garden.
Q: In your discussion of pruning raspberries, you specify June-bearing types. I have so-called "ever-bearing" raspberries, which as you know, have two crops per year, although the fall crop is often ...
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 ...
Raspberries and blackberries should be fertilized starting in early spring when new growth begins. (Kelsey O'Halloran/2014) CORVALLIS, Ore. - No matter how muddy the spring, it's time to slip on your ...