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' ...

If you are looking for a small fruit to produce in your backyard, blackberries may be the fruit for you. Blackberries are one of nature’s magic fruits. They are high in antioxidants, comparable to ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The search for the sweetest blackberries on the bush can make for a fun family outing. Jackie's Blackberries is a regular stop for Kristel Petty and her daughters. "We love ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Ponca is the 20th blackberry from the fruit breeding program of the division’s Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, said John R. Clark, fruit breeder and Distinguished Professor of horticulture ...

Ponca, a new blackberry variety from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, offers the pinnacle of flavor from one of the world’s leading public blackberry breeding program, ...

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 ...

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 ...