The Southern Living DownHome Harvest® Collection of fruit and berries makes it easier than ever to grow delicious fruit in your own backyard. With an upright growth habit, DownHome Harvest® 'Navaho' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ripe and unripe blackberries on brush - Yana Tatevosian/Getty Blackberries (Rubus spp.) — dark purple, sweet-tart fruits high in ...

Early varieties of blackberries are coming into season. Blackberries are easy to grow and are one of the most reliable and productive fruits we can grow in our home gardens and landscapes. Lots of ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic region responsible for blackberries' deployment of a type of pointy self-protection: thorns. Thorns can scratch pickers and damage fruit, making thornless ...

Many of us grew up picking blackberries in the country. My Grandmother Emanis would lead us on a trek to fencerows and unmowed pastures to harvest the plump, dark delicacies. Around our house, they ...

The thornless gene can often be passed on in breeding with undesirable ones, showing the potential need for crosses with some thorny plants. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Researchers have discovered the ...