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Something very historic today
MIKE WISKEY
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When growing up in central Wisconsin in the 1950's, we had a large Mulberry tree in the back yard. the kids for blocks around would come over to eat their fill besides grand ma's pies & jam. Several years ago I planted a couple of them and today while trimming one I found several berrys. so I had my first mulberry since 1961.
well its a start
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We have a couple of mullberry trees in our yard. 15 years ago when we built our 2nd garage one had to be cut down. It was a pretty big tree and to be honest I wasn't going to miss it. Me and the mower always got a few purple stains from berries falling while working under that tree. I cut it off about 6 inches above ground and got rid of it just before the building supplies were delivered so the stump was left for a later time. For several weeks you could see the water actually flowing out of the top of that stump. They must have a large and super active root system. Suckers didn't take to long to form and now the tree is back almost as big as it was to start with. Nature sure worked overtime to bring it back, so beyond trimming the garage side I have left it alone. The birds love it and I guess I can tolerate it for now. Bob
Planted 2 last year and they are approaching 10'. Picked about 5 berries.
my tree is raining them come eat your fill
The squirrels around here sure do love those things! I bet there were at least 20 of them buggers in a Mulberry bush\tree across the road from me during last years ripe berry season!
I think they're more of a weed, than a tree.
Dang birds eat the berries, fly around, sit on the fences. Deposit said mulberry seeds, and then you have mulberry weeds growing all over the place. Birds dropping purple bombs on everything.
They are tasty, though.
Purple bird poop all over everything.
Can you make wine out of them ?
for the uneducated mulberrys are like a thornless, seedless blackberry.................and yes you can make wine out of them (you can make wine out of anything that doesn't 'bite' or smell bad)
Do weasels really hang around the mulberry tree?
oh man,now I want a pie. Love them berries
our back yard / lot is about 3 acres give or take we let it grow up some maybe 15 years ago ( wife wanted and makes me keep a small wild life butterfly bug sancuatry and the dogs love to explore . we have a lot of mulberry trees they grow like weeds could get buckes of the berries if wanted birds and assorted wild life get them
I . mowed and cut down a lot of them but still way too many , I will eat a few while mowing or walking around wife and kids no way think I am crazy they do not really have any great flavor going for them . as a kid a local park had a huge tree I would eat the berries mom and dad said you can eat them but why ? no body likes them and dad use to say put them in a jar in xx amount ( I do not recall the amount ) of days it would be full of worms .. considering they grew up eating about any thing they could hunt or find when they were growing up I was always surprised they felt they way .
never had a problem eating them but purple bird crap on all the cars and out buildings is not so great
we have a crab apple tree that popped up about 20 years ago we let it grow also even gave it a name that skips my mind right now ) maybe Herbie
funny my wife has been kicking around the idea of making clover jelly and dandelion tea among other wild plant ideas
her mom and dad ate dandelion greens when in season I found nothing to write home about but they were OK but they also grew up in a time when what ever was on the menu
so we have a back yard of clover mulberry's milk weed dandelions queens anns lace ( a bit like wild carrots ) some wild onions ( ramps here and there even mustard greens . also pine trees for tea or ?
however now eating and talking about eating them is a bit different 😁
I know the feeling Ditch, never know what's going to be in my salad.😉
I love them. I know where there are two trees with white mulberry.
Moved to the present property 8 years ago and planted mulberry trees three times and could not keep one alive. Then I put in a row of 100 lilacs and one turned out to be a mulberry tree. It is only 2 feet tall but I can't wait!
Granny use to put them in a special dough (like sweet pie crust) she made and pinched them at the top. Yes, they tasted a lot like black berries. Yum, Yum-------------Ray