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  • From: Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulberry
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:03:15 -0700 (PDT)

Oscar's is supposed to be hardy to zone 5 and it is
really an excellent mulberry, currently my favorite.

Summer heat is not an issue with mulberries.


--- "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
wrote:

> 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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