This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims' four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...

“Roses are red, berries are blue, in pies you delight and big muffins, too.” Of all the crops which come to fruition in August, my hands-down favorite is the fruit simply called by its color: the ...

How to prune your berry patch, with different approaches for floricanes and primocanes. Berry season is just around the corner, and NOW is the time to prune your raspberry and blackberry bushes. In ...

To me, there is no sweeter time of year than in late June when ripe, local strawberries are piled high on my counter, waiting to be piled high on biscuits, breakfast cereal, or just slightly sugared ...

EVER SINCE I was a sticky-fingered kid, plucking blackcaps and blueberries from the brambly trails of southern New England, I’ve considered the staccato “kurplink, kurplank, kurplunk” of berries ...

Q: This year I had no berries on my holly bush; I thought the reason was that the female had been severely eaten by the deer (they did not touch my marigolds — thanks!). I mentioned the lack of ...

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