BLACKBERRIES - Garden Guide
Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. Their rarity in your location, of course, depends on your growing region.Sea Buckthorn (Hipprophae rhamnoides)A very productive northern f
History Of Blackberry Plants
Blackberries were perceived by the ancient cultures as being a wild plant, and historical accounts for a backyard culture of blackberry bushes are few. The Greeks used the blackberry as a remedy for Gout, and the Romans made a...
Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat
Enhancing your habitat StoryHabitat, simply put is the area where animals live. The key to wildlife survival, habitat supplies four basic elements: food, water, cover and nesting areas.Whether you have a small backyard or a...
Tissue Culture Applications To Improve Crops of Strawberries, Raspberries, and Blackberries
When agricultural crops are reproduced by division after several generations, frequently a decline occurs in qualities such as vigor, yield, disease resistance, plant and fruit appearance and uniformity of size or shape. This...
Growing Fruits Using Hydroponics
Would you like to try growing your own fresh fruits year round, but live in an area where, due to cold temperatures, snow or poor soil, you are unable to do so outdoors? Instead, why not try hydroponics, a form of gardening in...
Growing Raspberries & Blackberries
When planning your patch of brambles (as these fruits are known), pay special attention to air circulation and soil drainage. Taking weed-control precautions before you plant is also important because most brambles sport...
History Of Raspberry Plants
According to Luther Burbank, who studied and hybridized raspberries and blackberries more than any other horticulturalist, and wrote his classical 8 volume treatise on Small Fruits and Fruit Improvement in 1921; the red...
History Of Raspberry Plants
According to Luther Burbank, who studied and hybridized raspberries and blackberries more than any other horticulturalist, and wrote his classical 8 volume treatise on Small Fruits and Fruit Improvement in 1921; the red...
Raspberries - A Garden Must
Many years ago I bought a house in Wisconsin with a huge backyard. Large areas were devoted to fruit trees, vegetables, flowers and my special favorites like strawberries and raspberries. Growing raspberries has now become a...
Black Walnut Trees Produce A Natural Insecticide
The black walnut tree manufactures a substance that is anatural insecticide according to experts at the Texas StateUniversity in Austin.American black walnut tress contain a tannic acid chemistscall juglone. The reddish yellow...