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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulberry
  • Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:24:20 -0500

Lucky Pittman wrote:
Bill,
The 'Easter Big Freeze Disaster' we experienced back in early April, severely
damaged all of my mulberries. Most were well into shoot expansion and bloom,
following several weeks of exceedingly warm weather(daytime temps into the
80s) in late March, followed by 4-5 nights of temps into the low 20s.


That's very similar to our weather this spring, except that it dropped into the teens here on a couple of the nights (17 was the coldest). But my mulberry was the only thing that hadn't leafed out, so I figured it would be OK. The buds looked fine, but they hadn't started to open,... and they never did. Well, it was only a year old, so it certainly wasn't a big loss. It sounds like you had things much, much worse. I'm sorry to hear that.


Survivors, so far are: Illinois, Oscar's, Wellington(really poor production
for me, and trashy growth habit), Lawson Dawson(local M.rubra selection), and
(maybe) Collier.


I tried to research mulberries on the Internet before I bought my first Illinois Everbearing. I heard a few bad comments about Wellington (a few good comments, too), and there was some disagreement about whether or not Oscar's was hardy to zone 5. There were a lot of interesting mulberries offered at TyTy Nursery, but perhaps it's good I didn't try them. I didn't like their website, and they didn't have a lot of information available. In the end, Illinois Everbearing seemed to be the best bet. But I really don't need two of them (I planted the second because I wanted another mulberry,... and still hadn't found anything else that looked good).


I have no experience with Geraldi,


It was in a catalog from Edible Landscaping, in Virginia. In general, I'd prefer to buy from a more northern company, but then I suppose you never know if their stuff can take our heat in the summer. Well, my luck has been remarkably good so far, considering I'm so new at this. And a dwarf would be a better fit there...

Thanks for the reply!

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

--
This is why we have terms such as "wishful thinking" and "self-deception." There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth. - Sam Harris




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