Blackberries are among the best and worst of fruits you can grow in your yard. In many areas, they grow themselves — often a little too well. The thorny vines eagerly overtake available space, and ...

Learn how to make the most of these abundant and delicious berries. Blackberries are such an easy plant to grow. These brambles get a bad rap, but they are an extremely useful plant for many regions ...

Blackberries. The people of Eugene seem to be divided on the subject. Some love strolling through back alleys and parks during the summer picking ripe fruit off their bushes. Others loathe the sight ...

The seasons mark the passing of the year for many, but for me they mark the anticipation of the next fruit collection. Late spring bears apricots and strawberries; summer peaches lead to autumn apples ...

Blackberries are perhaps the best known of all foraged wild fruits. Whether they grow modestly on the perimeters of a ramshackle farm or thrive ruthlessly along the banks of a forgotten creek, there ...

Here we are already well into January, and chances are most of us haven’t given a thought to the Herb of the Year. In an effort to educate and enlighten people about the characteristics, pleasures and ...

Q:I have enjoyed the blackberries available at the local farmers markets. Are blackberries practical for the home gardener? M.D., Tulsa A: Absolutely. Blackberries are easy to grow and if properly ...

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been picking and eating what are arguably the best fruits I have ever tasted (a belief I often hold when a particular fruit is ripe). They are blackberries, but not ...

"It also blocked all my pests from seeing my plants." ...

The good news is that they are not that fussy about the conditions in which they will grow Tom Brown, a Telegraph columnist for four years, is head gardener at West Dean College in Sussex. At West ...

If you have ever picked blackberries from the wild, those days likely conjure many good memories. We are now beginning to enter blackberry harvest season for some early varieties. Dewberries are in ...

What’s more British than this dark and juicy berry? We love to scramble through brambles to pick blackberries. But how do you know when a blackberry is ripe, and when are blackberries ready to pick in ...