Preparing your raspberry plants for the winter involves pruning and cleaning, but you have to know what plant variety you are ...

Q: About four years ago, our raspberry patch was overtaken by spotted wing drosophila flies. The inside of every berry had little white larvae. We were advised to use some sprays but we were reluctant ...

The raspberry patch can become a wild and overgrown area at the end of the year and so is one of the early fall chores for me each year. The stems on some varieties die after the fruit is borne while ...

The loyal reader knows that part of my formative years was spent in the family’s huge raspberry patch. It was a four-rower, properly wired up to support berry-laden bushes. The aisles between the rows ...

Amy in Bowie writes: “I recently transplanted all of my perennial herbs from one of my raised beds to a place in the ground near the house, and now have some unexpected garden space: a 4-by-8-foot bed ...

After last week’s spot of yardwork, I feel like a real permanent resident of Potomac. I now have a deer fence. A “heavy duty” deer fence, to be precise, no mere agglomeration of netting and iron ...

Q. What and when is the right way to thin raspberries? Our patch is huge. A. Summer-bearing raspberries are easy to prune as long as you understand their growth cycle. Every spring, new canes grow ...

Question: I have had the same red raspberry canes for 21 years. How do you know when it is time to retire them and start some new ones? When is the best time to do this? What varieties of overbearing ...