Another season of tending the berry patch winds down with another year's worth of lessons learned and reinforced. A good gardener is always learning, always evaluating what works and what does not, ...

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 ...

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 ...