From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fast fruit/weeping mulberry
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 17:55:07 -0500
I love mulberry. It's one of my favorite fruits.
I do, too. I've always loved them. But I'm having the worst time trying
to grow them! I'm on my fourth Illinois Everbearing Mulberry. This one
is still alive, but half of it died over the winter. None of the rest
have broken dormancy after their first winter (though they grew great
the year before). And I just lost my Geraldi Dwarf Mulberry. It started
to leaf out, and then just died. One year is all it lasted.
Wild mulberries grow like weeds around here. But their taste varies
greatly. I want a mulberry that tastes good and, if not dwarf, at least
something I can prune to stay small. But for some reason, the only tree
I have trouble growing is the mulberry.
Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
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