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What zone is Cortez colorado
1:08 A wild Ninja appears in the background, (almost) unseen, unheard, silent and deadly.
This year, spring 2024 was exceptional. Same in 2022. I made many bottles of syrup. Lovely. Was stained for weeks. Do not put near your clothesline. The taste is watery but good for jams and wine. Also there will be seedlings galore. Put a sheet underneath when shaking the ripe berries. Your berries look good. Birds are always welcome. Also attracts stink bugs but notice there are also stink bugs on toms. Its just one of those years. Dragonflies and katydids will help control stink bugs. Good vid. 🌱
Dont know what kind we have but grow well in zones 4 and 5. Spread by birds
I'm in 4a? Canada. There's a volunteer mulberry on the property line of my neighbor. It doesn't need to come in in our cold winters. I have a potted one and it survives outdoors.
You can buy the sheets for any dehydrator & cut them. You will like them better, even if you have to cut them.
I have mulberry here in southwest lower Michigan. Coons absolutely love these.
One night the tree was full of coons.
Zone 6b amish town here, make sure you keep pruning them yearly, even if dwarfs. We have 6 white everbearing mulberry trees. 3 of which are now 40+ ft tall and it's canopy is about 12 ft in diameter. Love fresh mulberries. If you do not prune them expect that you'll wait many many years for the 1st berry production. If you prune yearly expect an over abundance of berries.
Zone 4b here and I have a mulberry tree in my yard. Was here when I moved in. It’s about 35 feet tall. Produces a ton of mulberries.
For the dehydrator sheets, what about using silicone baking sheets and cut them the same way you did the parchment paper? Get the cheap silicone ones that are just silicone.
You must do plantation of plum tree. Use plum paste instead of tomoto.
Jay bharat.
Spay vegetable oil on your parchment paper!
The mulberries that grow around my area don't really have much of flavor. I kinda wish they tasted better. The wood is pretty strong tho
Thirsty birds eat fruit. Giving the birds a place to drink water will slow the eating of fruit. Plenty of fruit will still be eaten… but less.
I’m in zone 4b and mulberry trees grow and spread wildly in my yard and my neighbors’ yards.
I have the red and white varieties.
They can get HUGE! Be careful where you plant them.😳
Thanks. ❤❤❤.
weed, you'll find it anywhere a bird poops. pure carbs,
i have several varieties in my little orchard. they grow like weeds.
save your old sheets and lay them under your tree before shaking. that is how it is done in the near east and mediteranian 🙂
UGG, these trees. Zone 5B. Basically a weed tree here in SE WI. Not sure what will take over the yard first, elderberry or mulberry. Just know, you will have them forever. Good luck keeping it small😂
I used to eat these while growing up in nepal . I saw a mulberry tree for the first time in america in California ❤❤❤❤
make tea with the leaves. It’s amazingly nutritious, detoxing…..anti cancerous
pH is not tested w fancy equipment. A simple 1 or 2 point calibration wet bulb one costs less than a good stock pot. Also, pH strips are very accurate when choosing ones that test precisely and accurately in the range and conditions you are working in. You just have to follow directions and practice with them. I’ve made solutions to bath and keep functional brain tissue with both hand held meters and the right collection of strips.
I just started a garden for the first time this year while I’m my mom’s caregiver and staying with her for that reason, and we have a red mulberry tree that reaches close to where I set up my garden! So many berries every year and nobody’s ever pruned them or taken care of it at all, although that’s changed this year since I took up gardening. I just got a whole freezer ziploc bag full yesterday and if I had gotten all the ones that fell on the ground already, I’d probably have another 4 of those bags lol. And there’s still countless berries ripening on the tree. I’m making breakfast for my mom with them tomorrow morning 😊 thanks for the video and the info ❤️
Mulberries are much better than raspberries and blackberries but the birds won’t leave anything for you and mulberries are favorite for deer too
We actually grow mulberry in Kuwait and it can survive our hottest summer on earth, it reaches 60 c in summer peak. The summer will burn the plant but it will grow back to fruit next season.
It can survive in shad with less damage though
@6:36 I put a slopped plastic tarp. 18 inch raised att one side by a long galvanized pipe.so all will be rklling at other end.
I met my first mulberry this weekend, it BLEW MY MIND!! I grew up in the frigid North and had never seen a fruit tree over 12 feet tall! I no longer live in the North and am in a mulberry friendly zone, so guess what I’m asking for as a birthday gift! Thanks for making me a better gardener, I am learning so much! ❤
What an informative video! I never realized how versatile and productive mulberry trees could be. It's great to see all the tips and benefits of growing them, from their fast growth to the impressive yield. The methods for pruning, watering, and even dealing with pests were very helpful. Your enthusiasm for mulberry trees is contagious! 🌳🍇🌞
I never realized how versatile and productive mulberry trees could be. It's great to see all the tips and benefits of growing them, from their fast growth to the impressive yield.
When growing a garden remember birds, bug's, friends, thief's , family all need a Fair amount
Good lord… you lost me at FOUR cups of sugar 😂
But thanks for all the other info on growing & harvesting the berries ❤️
In the UK growing up we use to call them black berries. They grew everywhere in any garden and park or common. I remember I use pick them to make blackberry pie and crumble with cream, hot custard or ice cream.. Lovely video. ❤️
Mulberries LOOK like raspberries, but the ones I have tasted are disappointingly bland.
There are varieties certainly hardy in z 5.
You may also regret planting them over sidewalks, paved paths, etc., because the berry stains won't come out of concrete with just a few rains. Getting the stains out of clothing will be even harder.
Even before falling to the ground, mulberries have very tiny insects crawling over the fruit, they don't seem to damage it, but the ick factor might be a factor. Plunging them into ice water might solve that issue.
There are different kinds of mulberries. Black, Red, and White are the most common. White being the most hardy, down to zone 3, Red being the sweetest taste, and Black being the fastest grower along with typically yielding the most berries.
Mulberry trees used to be all over Perth, some also grew wild on vacant blocks when I was a kid in the 70’s. We’d have a feast and then go home covered in juice stains much to the disdain of my mother. They’re so sweet & delicious!
As a lifelong Florida kid… I’ll never forget going to a friends house & she had them SO HUGE u could actually CRAWL inside of it like a massive canopy (reminds me of those circular clothing racks we use to hide in as kids at Walmart)
It was a sleepover; everyone had moved into the house… her mom noticed I was missing…she was looking for me everywhere & started to panic until her dog showed her where I was…
I had been held up under there for God knows how long just SHOVING mulberry’s into my mouth.
She walked in to see my completely stained black mouth + fingers like 👁️👄👁️
Yup, it grow well in Indonesia
Rose Red Homestead is a good resource. She uses pH paper in her kitchen. 😊
In My backyard I got multiple big mango trees(diffrent kinds) so, I didn't really get good direct sunlight so should I buy a regular one?
Dehydrate them for the winter… yummmm….
What about squirrels? North Central Florida. My neighbour said they got nothing from the mulberry tree. Humans Zero. Squirrels 100%
Nice, I have a white mulberry tree in my front yard, also a fig and mango trees, the lemon tree might not make it as they are all newly planted from seed or cuttings.
i swear mulberries are the best theyre so underrated the times i just recomend them is way too much and the times that i tell people that theyre NOT POISONOUSIS is way too much
Hey nice video, I would like to suggest u a faster and clean way to pick the berries. Before shaking the bush spread an old bedsheet below the tree & all berries will fall on it. If few fall on the ground that u can pick later. This way u can pick the sheet with someone's help and all ur berries will be clean and spare u time from picking them one big one by hand.
I got a Dwarf mulberry tree and the 1st year it produced enough to fresh eat some and put some in the freezer for smoothies and each year it produces more and more and im thinking of getting another one😋