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.

Summer-fruiting raspberries (floricane) produce canes every year. These new canes grow throughout the summer, go dormant in the winter and produce raspberries the following summer, before dying back.

Raspberries can grow into a tangled mess and produce poorly if not pruned properly. Prune fall-fruiting raspberries (fruit between August and October) back to the ground now to produce one crop of ...

If you’ve always wanted to grow your own fruit, now is the time to consider planting raspberries. Many varieties can be grown along the Front Range, particularly red and yellow raspberries. Black and ...

There is still time to plant new canes in these final weeks of dormancy, so if you don’t have any raspberries it is worth planting a row in your garden by early March. Dig in some home-made compost to ...

Did you know: The red raspberry is a member of the rose family, its botanical name is Rubus idaeus, it's very hardy for our area and possibly the easiest of all the small fruits to grow. Did you also ...

Red raspberries, and small fruit in general, seem to be generating a lot of interest in the popular press for their health associated anti-oxidant properties. Furthermore, many residents who have ...

Lisa Slattery, Linn County Master Gardener, offers timely tips on pruning raspberries: This is the first in a series for pruning small fruits in the Iowa home garden. Today's blog will cover ...

Summer is the peak season for the Westerway Raspberry Farm in the Derwent Valley, but not all pickers have been allowed a break just yet. Owner Richard Clark said the family run farm was experiencing ...