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 ...

Raspberry crowns live for many years, but their canes are biennial in nature. Each year new shoots grow from buds in the crown. Late in the summer, these new canes develop lateral branches with fruit ...

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 ...

Raspberries, a favorite of many home gardeners, are relatively easy to grow, and are hardy and productive in most of Iowa. If given proper care, a 100-foot-long row of red raspberries can produce 100 ...

Raspberry crowns live for many years, but their canes are biennial meaning they live for two years. Each year new shoots grow from buds in the crown. Late in that first summer, these new canes develop ...

Q: In April I created a cactus garden and I have it under a grow light for 12 hours a day. It has started growing some skinny tops on some of the plants. Will these fill out, or just get more gangly?

This fall I discovered a job that I dislike more than cleaning the leaves out of down spouts. Up until now scooping the leaves, pine needles and twigs that have accumulated in the bottom of the spouts ...

Q: I wanted to share this photo of my Meyer lemon tree I’ve had a little over a year. It’s been a fun plant to watch. — John Peterson, Fargo A: Thanks, John. As I always say, we’re all in this ...