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["Paul St. John" <stjohn36g@yahoo.com>]

to harvest large amounts of mulberry at once , we put old sheets /new tarps 
under the trees in the morning and come back in a couple of hours if the wind 
is blowing. the mulberries will have fallen to the ground and we hand picked 
up from the sheets.  keep clear of bird poop and don't gather the sheets with 
berries in them , you will get a great tye-dye design. if there is no wind  
or in a hurry, shake the branches you can reach ripe berries as they fall 
easily .
 
"But how to grow the trees so they are easy to pick?  I have a couple
Russian Mulberries that I pollarded at about 4 feet and that seems
like it might have potential.

I've planted out about 20 Illinois Everbearing with the hopes of
making wine, but I'm hesitant to plant more until I know if there is
an easy way to harvest them and also if the birds will even allow me
to harvest anything at all."

~mIEKAL




Paul St. John  Zone 5b  N IL
 
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 Elizabeth, from reading, English Morello is a considerably smaller tree
 than Montmorency, said to grow to maybe 10 ft. Have you considered it?

 Doug Woodard
 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada



 On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:15:06 -0500, Elizabeth Hilborn
 <ehilborn@mebtel.net> wrote:
> I am removing my 3 year old Bristol black raspberry plants. The fruit
> quality was a big disappointment to me. Just not very flavorful. I
> will
> have some space freed up when they go.
>
> I am also removing my Nanking bush cherries as they are in a crowded
> spot and are succumbing to what looks very much like fireblight, but
> I
> know that pathogen is not probable on a Prunus. Maybe it is black
> knot,
> but it does not appear similar to the lesions I commonly see on the
> wild
> cherries (Prunus serotina) in my area. The Nankings display black,
> necrotic distal shoot damage that descends, whereas the trees develop
> lesions on their trunks and branches, but distal tissue appears
> healthy.
>
> I very much like the fruit of the Nankings and am wondering if any
> varieties of bush cherries will thrive here if I give them better air
> circulation. Can folks on the list recommend bush cherry varieties
> for
> my humid zone 7b location? My understanding is that varieties
> developed
> in the northern plains may not do well here, but am not sure.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Betsy Hilborn
> 7b central NC
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