[NAFEX] 'Illinois Everbearing' mulberry

Ernest Plutko ernestplutko at wiktel.com
Sun Apr 4 16:05:46 EDT 2010


Put an electric fence around it.

---- Original Message ----
From: mijwiz at yahoo.com
To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] 'Illinois Everbearing' mulberry
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT)

>We bought an 'Illinois Everbearing' mulberry from Raintree last year,
>and a deer promptly ate much of it the moment we planted it, before
>we had time to protect it. It then sent out a lot of sprouts in a
>bushy sort of way. I think it's grafted, rather than on its own
>roots. I can't really tell, but I suspect that the only live part
>that's left is sprouting from the rootstock.
>
>We could just remove the whole thing and buy another grafted tree, or
>I could take this as an invitation to experiment, obtain some
>scionwood, and try to graft it myself. Any opinions, advice, or
>offers of scionwood?
>
>Melissa
>Zone 5, central NY, where all the buds are swelling and starting to
>pop open, except for my 'Black Velvet' gooseberry, which has
>fully-expanded leaves like it's summer.
>
>
>
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