Question I suppose for the women in here
 

Please just give me a yes or no. I found ive got 2 mulberry trees on a fence line by my mkt garden in a fence line under electric lines. What I want to know is whether theyre worth saveing or not, How many women fool with them, alot of few. If a few, ill pull them out.

Good luck pulling them out. I've been trying to kill some for years.

If I had 'em, I'd keep 'em and use 'em. Free fruit is too hard to pass up.

I'd keep em. the fruit makes good jelly and pies, etc. the birds usually get mine before I do tho.

If they're purple, I'd keep them. The white ones aren't very tasty at all.

I wish I had your problem! So my answer is yes, I'd use them!

I can't figure out why a woman would want the tree's more or less than a man.....

But I guess my answer would be all about what YOU want. Do YOU want the fruit from those trees? Yes~ leave them. No~ yank the trees out...or whatever you have to do to kill them. If you want fruit and don't like that fruit there is no point in keeping them~ yank them off your fence line and plant something you like better in a better location.

Fruit is great, and they're an excellent source of food for my rabbits and other animals. AND they grow rapidly.

keep them

I don't like trees on the fence line. Rip 'em out.

I recommend you keep them if you have poultry. I sure would, though don't know what being a woman has to do with it.
Among his many other things, Joel Salatin has some big mulberry trees .....

Kinda funny. If you go to the singletree foreum, youll see that (I think) most of the women in there say whatever, or yank them out.

The reason I mention it to the women, is,

If u are, or were, a woman LOL, AND, If you were liveing here, and they were here. Would YOU want to fool with them, pick, can/freeze,?? Myself, Id think that Elderberrys would be less trouble, for more gain. Im just trying to make sure, IF I ever do get somebody here, and I happen to tell her that I yanked out a couple mulberry trees, I dont want to her to say (What, are u nuts)? I love Mulberrys. OR, If I kept them, and they grew up into the power lines, and I told here I had them, and she said. (Big deal, who cares. I aint fooling with the birdshot berrys.

Well, I'm the wrong sex for your poll, so you'll have to discount my reply accordingly....

Just fought with a _large_ black mulberry tree the past few days. Three storms ago, 1/2 of it fell down & lightly on one of my old sheds. The last storm, the other 1/2 fell down on the back corner of the shed, knocked it kitty-wampus. I'm hoping to save the shed, but it is leaning & twisted. Anyhow fought getting those 2 portions of tree off the shed without finishing off the shed for several days with 2 tractors, many chains, and several tanks of gas for the chainsaw.

Mom picked strawberries. A lot of them. So she didn't fuss with the mulberries much. Got several good bowls of them over the years, but not really very often. What the tree _did_ do is protect the garden strawberries. The birds loved sitting in the tree getting the mulberries, and never bothered mom's strawberry patch on the ground. Mom was strawberry lady, we were all berried out on those, so the mulberry never got a fair chance at feeding us.

The bad part was of course, lousy stinking mulberry trees coming up like weeds wherever the birds poop. As well as the very colorful poop on everything....

If you don't want the mulberries, get rid of them, they are a terrible weed. You'll be trying to kill them for decades as they keep muliplying....

I agree the black ones are good, the red or white ones (we got one of each in the grove.....) aren't worth much.

I would not keep these weed trees around just to feed livestock - grow alfalfa or grass hay or a grain - don't waste land on growing these weed-type of trees unless you actually like eating them yourself.

Just some random thoughts from a no-account guy.

--->Paul

Under the power lines???? They need to go, doesn't matter what kind of trees they are. If they are small enough and you have room somewhere else, transplant them.

I don't like them, they make a mess and my feet end up purple. Now that I've moved to this place, the trees are not near where I walk everyday. I'm torn between whether the trees attract birds to my fruit trees or they eat the berry's instead of my cherry's. Didn't get many cherries this year. Not one mulberry made it to being ripe before the birds got it. So for me the issue is the Birds. But ,I wouldn't let them grow near the wires, they get big and are pretty much a weed tree here.

I have a mulberry tree in the corner of my yard where it's not a problem, and the birds love it. In the two years I've lived here, I've not been able to harvest enough to put up due to the birds, but did have a few in breakfast cereal several times. If the power lines are tall enough that the trees won't grow into them, I'd say keep them. For the wildlife if not for yourself.

They grow fast and I've seen them get pretty large. Almost as large as the maple trees that grow nearby. You don't want them under your wires like that. They (berries) track into the house too. I spent many an afternoon as a kid in a tree fort that was up a mulberry tree. The wood is fairly soft and when the wind blows it leans and moves around a lot. Loved that!

i just planted 3..red...would have liked to tried some black and white ones too..but had opportunity to get red ones.

i think even if you don't use them for food, your birds and animals will and that will draw birds into your garden area to eat pests..so they are useful for at least that much if you don't make jelly or whatever.

If they will end up shading your garden as they grow then I would get rid of them. Otherwise, if they location is not an incovenience to you and you like mulberries, they should stay. Personally I love mulberries and they are quick and easy to harvest...just lay some plastic down under the tree and gently shake the branches--all of the ripest berries will fall. Then you just gather the edges of the plastic and pour the berries in a bucket. You can literally get pounds of berries in a matter of minutes if you've got big trees :)

I love mulberries, we have a couple of trees. Goats love the leaves too. :) So I would vote for keep!

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Keep...they are the only tree the grasshoppers have left alone. Ate peaches off peach tree...left the pit. They are now eating all the apples, yes, all!

FRF & R Your responses told the tale. Along with alla the other +s, Ill keep them around. But there right on the edge of the right ofg way, which slopes down sharply to the grader ditch, the back up to Slick Rd. With a fence running parallel to that ridge, seems like itall be hard to get the ones on the slope side of the fence.

These answers remind me of a test I took in school. The teacher passed out the test and said, "Read the entire page before you begin." Everyone looked at the paper and there was a spot for your name and everyone dutifully wrote their name at the top then began answering the questions. When it got down to question 20, it read, "Now begin."

My satillite Mulberry Orchard has been devastated - first two trees became off limits when the property was resold, #3,4,5, removed when a now defunct hopsital is remodeling into senior housing, and the rest have been stripped bare by weasels.
As for a courtship, ferment and serve in chilled wine glass.
Last year I donated half a gallon of Mulberry juice to the jelly & jam mission sponsored by PW. The Mulberry jelly sold very well since it isn't common here.

~~ pelenaka ~~