People understood when I planted Willow, locust (black and honey), poplar, chestnut and other trees in my pastures; but when I told them that mulberries were part of the mix I heard confusion 😂😂😂 “Tim!!! You did what??? You don’t have to plant mulberries- they just grow!!!”
Red mulberries are the best. In my experience white mulberries lack the flavor and so does their red-white hybrid. But I love mulberries. There’s a few where we live now… but they are white or hybrids and don’t have many berries this year. Maybe it was too dry this spring.
I wonder if you can use mulberry leaves the same way as alfalfa in tea.
Oh wow! What if that tree knew how that man was treating you and your mom and said “I can’t help much, but I can do this.” So it changed to fruiting so the birds would poop on his car? What an amazing thing that would be.
Thanks for this piece — a great amalgam of knowledge and memory and feeling. I adore mulberry trees, having grown up climbing them, eating right in the tree, or else buying little newspaper cones full of them, either black or white, at the market… Marvelous tree, but hard to find saplings where I live, and the seeds I bought last year seem to have gone to waste.
Expecting a clean experience when visiting a farm is … a choice.
I had a white mulberry growing inconveniently against my foundation that required removal. Took a couple tries. Don’t worry, the birds still have lots of raspberries, blackberries and wild Cherry with which to besplatter the neighborhood.
Sorry to hear about so many places lacking rainfall lately. My area is currently fine, but I worry enough to procure a used rain barrel which is currently awaiting installation on my suburban front porch. Neighbors are side-eying it, I’m sure, but I enjoy a bit of notoriety.
I have two huge mulberries. I planted three beside the chicken pen but one didnt make it. It died right away. The two are 20 to 30ft high and shated alarge portion of the yard and chicken pen. They also are covered in fruit every year of which we get to partake in none. Birds eat them before they even ripen.
Cheers to shit and sugar! Great piece, as always.
Ok now we want to know how you ate 8.5 lbs of mulberries before they went bad. Or did you freeze them? Please advise.
So far on the list we have mulberry cobbler, mulberry vanilla ice cream, and mulberry vinegar. Might do some jam next!
Mulberry wine isn't in my skill set…
Mulberry almond cake sounds nice
I'm always happy to see mulberry poop. Everybody needs variety in their diets.
Really appreciated and enjoyed this.
People understood when I planted Willow, locust (black and honey), poplar, chestnut and other trees in my pastures; but when I told them that mulberries were part of the mix I heard confusion 😂😂😂 “Tim!!! You did what??? You don’t have to plant mulberries- they just grow!!!”
Red mulberries are the best. In my experience white mulberries lack the flavor and so does their red-white hybrid. But I love mulberries. There’s a few where we live now… but they are white or hybrids and don’t have many berries this year. Maybe it was too dry this spring.
I wonder if you can use mulberry leaves the same way as alfalfa in tea.
Oh wow! What if that tree knew how that man was treating you and your mom and said “I can’t help much, but I can do this.” So it changed to fruiting so the birds would poop on his car? What an amazing thing that would be.
Thanks for this piece — a great amalgam of knowledge and memory and feeling. I adore mulberry trees, having grown up climbing them, eating right in the tree, or else buying little newspaper cones full of them, either black or white, at the market… Marvelous tree, but hard to find saplings where I live, and the seeds I bought last year seem to have gone to waste.
Expecting a clean experience when visiting a farm is … a choice.
I had a white mulberry growing inconveniently against my foundation that required removal. Took a couple tries. Don’t worry, the birds still have lots of raspberries, blackberries and wild Cherry with which to besplatter the neighborhood.
Sorry to hear about so many places lacking rainfall lately. My area is currently fine, but I worry enough to procure a used rain barrel which is currently awaiting installation on my suburban front porch. Neighbors are side-eying it, I’m sure, but I enjoy a bit of notoriety.
I have two huge mulberries. I planted three beside the chicken pen but one didnt make it. It died right away. The two are 20 to 30ft high and shated alarge portion of the yard and chicken pen. They also are covered in fruit every year of which we get to partake in none. Birds eat them before they even ripen.