[KarlInOhio]

A little more than a month and a half until the 50% last frost date (April 23 for me). See https://garden.org/apps/frost-dates/ for percentage chance for frost or freeze for your location. I'm going to line my fences with giant sunflowers this year. I have enough seeds that I'll plant them early and just replant if they get killed by a late freeze.

I think I'll clear my raspberry bushes this weekend. I don't know whether I'll leave a few old canes so I have some to nibble on in June or just cut them to the ground and wait until August for berries from the new growth.

[CottonBall]

I inherited raspberry bushes when we bought this house. How am I supposed to prune them? I had thought the berries only grow on Old canes, so I’ve just been leaving everything alone.

[greeneyes]

None of our raspberries ever survived, the black berries did, so we just do the blackberries now. We have a really nice patch of wild blackberries, but 2012 drought really hurt them.

They haven’t come back yet. They had huge juicy berries before that year. So we keep trying.