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 ...

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon fall ...

Evergreen fruit trees, including lemon trees, other citrus varieties, and avocado, don’t require a chilling or dormant period. The best time to prune these trees is immediately after harvesting. If ...

No matter how much cleanup and prep you do in your garden before winter arrives, there’s always a list of new maintenance tasks each spring. And along with cleaning out garden and flower beds and ...

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.

CORVALLIS – Established raspberries (including Meeker and Willamette) and blackberries (including marionberries, boysenberries and loganberries), need some late winter-early spring care to stay ...

Spring often brings a long list of gardening chores such as cutting back dead growth after a long winter. Spring pruning can rejuvenate many types of plants and make way for fresh leafy growth.

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 ...