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  • From: nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pollarding a mulberry
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:25:14 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

In Redwood City, CA, my daughter had two pollarded large mulberry trees, 18
inches in diameter. While it was a pain to pollard them each winter, in the
summer their foliage occupied exactly the same space every year.
Jim Nottke
z7 NC

-----Original Message-----
>From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
>Sent: Jun 3, 2009 9:30 AM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pollarding a mulberry and tree decapitation
>
>
>> I think the idea of pollarding a mulberry is brilliant.
>
>
>I didn't quite understand what "pollarding" meant, so I checked the
>Wikipedia listing on it. FYI, they mention mulberries as one example of
>trees that do well as pollards.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding
>
>Bill
>Lincoln, NE (zone 5)


Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC




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