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My mulberry crop was not too large. Birds seemed to get most of them.

I really have two main mulberry trees. The Illinois Everbearing for which I
paid a lot of money 12 years ago has never had what you would call a heavy
crop. That would be OK if it lived up to its name and bear fruit all summer,
but it doesn't do that either.

My second mulberry tree was accidental. It has excellent sweet tasting fruit
and usually bears a heavy crop over a long period. It is interesting how I
got it. I purchased a load of sandy topsoil to use in mix for potting trees
and to supplement my clay soil in raised beds. Mulberry seedlings kept
sprouting up in the pile and I kept pulling them out, Finally, at the end of
the planting season, the pile was down and one lone mulberry seedling
remained. Well it got bigger and I neglected to pull it or cut it down. I'm
glad that I let it grow because it surely out-performs my expensive one.

Ro Chapman
The Baylands at Port Clinton, OH --- Zone 5/6

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lucky Pittman
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:50 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulberry

At 06:46 PM 7/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Folks,  Anybody else have an exceptional mulberry season?

My two Illinois Everbearing trees had their typical good crop of tasty 
berries, and will probably wind up the season in another week or two.  A 
young Collier bore a nice crop, it's first, and I was pleased with fruit 
size and taste.
A branch of Stearns, grafted onto Gordon Nof's "Packy" selection bore a 
nice crop of good quality berries.
"Packy" sort of redeemed itself this year - it may have just needed a 
little more maturity, but it bore nice, tasty berries.  It's now a 
multi-variety tree, fostering a number of varieties that may not be winter 
hardy here, high-worked onto upper branches.
I didn't get a chance to check on the ortets of my favorite local M.rubras, 
and the grafts of them that I have growing at the house didn't fruit this
year.
The M.alba seedlings planted at the edge of the orchard bore their typical 
heavy crop of small, tart berries, but the birds liked them, and largely 
left the cherries alone and stayed out of the blueberries until those 
mulberries were gone.



Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY

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