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.

(For details on growing many other vegetables and fruits, visit our Crop at a Glancecollection page.) Delicious, nutritious and easy to grow, raspberries are a valuable addition to any food garden.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

It should be no surprise that our Northwest climate is perfect for growing all kinds of berries. Simply look around at the omnipresent and noxious Himalayan blackberry, and one can easily deduce that ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • I have been growing raspberries for about 25 years. It has not been a successful venture. I am making my very last attempt. I ...