(For details on growing many other vegetables and fruits, visit our Crop at a Glancecollection page.) Delicious, nutritious and easy to grow, raspberries are a valuable addition to any food garden.

The raspberry, with its botanical name Rubus idaeus, belongs to the rose family, which includes around 3,500 species. The raspberry is a hardy, deciduous climbing shrub that comes in a variety of ...

Editor’s Note: Pam Baxter is on vacation. The following column was contributed by Don Knabb, a West Chester gardening enthusiast. What is the easiest fruit to grow at home? After trying to grow ...

Most gardeners I know tend to be fairly haphazard with their raspberry patches, myself included. This laxity works because raspberries tend to spread on their own (much more than you might want in ...