This column from Garden Writer Bill Finch first appeared in the Press-Register's Garden & Home section on May 7, 2004. You could call these blackberries “dewberries“ if you like. In fact, they bear ...

If you are new to this area, let me set you straight - ’er, enlighten you. May is Dewberry Month in these parts. Dewberry is the National Berry of Texas and it’s your duty as a citizen to eat ’em up.

While we are all familiar with raspberries and blackberries, there is a wild and delicious Texas cousin that grows along thickets and pastures: meet the dewberry. Common throughout the northern ...

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 ...

WAXAHACHIE - The dewberry pickers who just finished a morning rooting through bramble were sitting outside under the beautiful spring sky eating dewberry cobbler — a post-picking requirement. If you ...

These are strange times indeed. If you are becoming a bit stir crazy, you’re not alone. We are, in the main, social animals. It feels a bit unnatural to interact with friends and family remotely. The ...

Q: About eight years ago I put three large pots on my patio and filled them with several types of plants. I have never had an Easter lily in those pots, but a couple of years ago three came up and ...

Dear Neil: What is the best way to rid my beds of wild dewberries? Their thorns are tearing my flesh off. A: We live in a rural area and I have wild dewberries (trailing blackberries) in my ...