You guys are doing amazing with your farm. We built our own house and I have planted over 25 trees and built 2 raised up garden beds and I am wiped in 9 months. Great work!
Oh my goodness, Justin that's incredible. While we're comfortable growing things, building a house would be a whole other monster that we would be overwhelmed trying to accomplish. Congrats to you guys!
I love hearing these stories. When I was growing up we didn't have any mulberry trees around, but loquat trees where everywhere. Not near as messy, but those trees are some of my favorite to grow as they remind me of a much simpler time.
When you showed the shot of the mulberries laying in the mulch, I was thinking that your chickens would make short work of them. Looks like your goat was also enjoying them.
Yeah, we're trying to figure out how we can move the chickens in on a VERY temporary basis. They just tear up all of the mulch with their scratching and that's critical for these trees to survive our summers.
Hey there Esther, glad you're enjoying the content. I imagine your view is a bit different from your back porch than what we're seeing here. A lot more green I'm sure!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh yes very green surrounded by huge mango trees. We just got back here to retire ..we lived in Canada for 40 years...back to my roots. We are planning to have a mulberry farm hopefully by January
Let me thank you for this. I'm in 9b, but in lush Florida. We're just coming out of covid but our everbearing is going crazy. We made a small batch of jam but mostly I need more rest. This will allow me to deal with them later. Thank you
Glad to hear you're on the mend. Lori and I have both had it over the last year or so and know how much it can wipe you out! The good news is, those berries will be there for you when you're ready to start munching on them again!
I suppose having "too many" mulberries is a good problem to have. I just harvested a teeny tiny shangri la mulberry and wow, I can't wait to have "too many!" As always, thank you for the vid.
It is definitely a good problem! We make smoothies most days and love to make wine so we will use them! You should get there with your Shangri La, we have found that they produce much better a few years in!
Hey Alan! She loves mulberries, we literally have to pull her away to make sure she doesn't eat to many and make herself sick lol! We found she really likes loquats too!
Let the chicken eat some also. Get purple egg yolks...just like your fingers. Try leaves for chicken forage in the fall prior to leaves changing color. Luck
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I looked through my photos, and evidently didn't take stills. I will review some videos and timestamp the wattling action. Lol. Thanks!
Juice, nectar, jelly add them to ice cream. Make a mulberry dubbie or pie bacis the same recipe as a blackberry one. And ice cubes. Make a lemonade and use the ice cube in it. Or a canadian whisky tonic and the ice cube. With you being a commercial farm. Having goats. What would yall have to do to become organic goat ice cream producers? Use up your extra fruit in it. Or goat milk fat soap with some of the fruits extract in it?
All excellent suggestions here! I'm not sure what we would need to do in order to process the goat's milk into ice cream, but we do have plans for soap and a mulberry scented soap would be amazing. Assuming of course, you're not eating it!! :)
What do you do about groundhogs? I need to go back and watch your other videos. I am trying to bury chicken wire under ground, and we just got a couple of solar stake vibrator things to try out. I am inspired! We need to pick up a mulberry tree today. I also want an elderberry.
Ground squirrels are a menace for us as well. We don't really worry about them too much with the trees at this point as they don't hurt the larger ones. The younger trees we have used a foliar spray mixed with cayenne and fish emulsion to deter them from eating the leaves during the Summer months. The garden beds are lined with hardware cloth under the soil and we have the beds fully enclosed above and that keeps them out of there.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Okay, Thanks! We have spotted ground squirrels around too, they are very cute! Gardening is such a challenge, but I'm pretty determined. 🌞🌱🏜️
Have you considered investing in a freeze dryer to store your mulberries instead of just putting them in the freezer? They should last longer without losing their flavor and nutrients that way.
Yes, but only briefly until we saw the price tag. Most of the fruit that we keep for ourselves is destined for smoothies and wine, so the moisture is critical for those uses. It would be nice to freeze dry some for snacks though!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, lolrofl, that was the exact same reaction I had when I saw the price tag. Fortunately, my fruit orchard is extremely small compared to yours.
@@riveryzen we're hoping to have most of the heavier production sold to customers, so even though there are a lot of trees, we won't be keeping all of the harvest on several varieties!
So looking forward to our Persian Mulberry setting fruit. We may have to buy another variety to get an earlier harvest. Great tip on saving mulberry’s and thank you for sharing.
Chicken feed! Turkeys, pigs, mulberries are good eating for all. this is year 4, for the Pakistani, and I actually got a mulberry from it! Out of the hundreds that came on, there's about 5 more that the wind didn't knock off. But, that's life. Revenge is, chilacayote squash planted next to the bush (now over 12 feet tall). Let them climb all over it and I get something out of it, LOL. But, now I keep wondering should I get an everbearing? The quail would be sure to help themselves (a hen is nesting under an overgrown Lady Banks rose, which is now taller than the garage. The rose, not the hen :) And, wow, but a ton of garlic in the garden yet (we're a week+ behind you, and 100 miles south! :) next year, mulberry juice for the sun tea! hasta, kids, it's looking great.
Hey Martin! The chickens and turkeys really do go nuts over these berries. We would let them out on these trees, but they scratch way too much and destroy our woodchip mulch in the process. That being said, they do get several handfuls thrown to them while we're harvesting. The Everbearing is truly amazing in it's production. We'll discuss it in today's vlog, but with inconsistent harvesting over the last 2 weeks we've already accumulated over 45 pounds of fruit almost exclusively from these 3 trees!
we just pruned a few branches from my parents backyard. they have a white Pakistani Mulberry that produces heavy, my dad and I had a few handfuls after dinner tonight, he was impressed how well they taste, a lot like honeydew melon! I want to root a few and see if that works, I may air layer it later this summer.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I stand corrected, it's a white mulberry. Shorter berry than the Pakistan. I'll have to try a Pakistan berry to compare taste but the berries we ate last night were fantastic! LOL I still want to practice rooting them 😎
Mulberries are some of my favorites. I was bummed yesterday to discover one of mine didn’t come out of dormancy, I started looking around and didn’t notice anything till I saw a tiny hole in the soil at the base. A rodent had chewed all the bark off around almost the entire base and girdled it. Gonna have to find one to replace it now. They’re not easy to find locally, everyone just sells the fruitless variety. This one is one that started out fruitless and I grafted on Pakistani mulberry to the top.
Jared, that just sucks man! I can't stand those little demons, because sometimes you don't see the damage until it's too late. Much like this one! I'm surprised to hear they're selling male/fruitless mulberry trees out your way. The older areas of Phoenix still have several around, but they made them illegal due to the pollen in some areas many years ago. In fact, folks still get confused thinking they are not able to grow the female, fruiting trees.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I wish they would make fruitless ones at least less available here. The fruiting trees sell out immediately during bare root season and then are very hard to find after that. I saw a very small caliper tree last weekend at a local nursery and they wanted $50 for it and it barely had 3 leaves on it. I might have gone for it if it was a little bigger but it should have been a lot more vigorous for this time of year with the nice weather we have been having the last couple months. .
That's a great idea to freeze them on trays first and THEN put them in ziplocks. The heart ache I could have saved myself over the years with my watermelon smoothies!
Makes all the difference in the world. We usually let them freeze solid when we're dealing with these smaller fruit, but you can freeze larger fruit like peaches partially through and you'll get the same result.
Good morning and I have a very good point in mulberry trees. They can grow above a hundred years truly and I have 2 white mulberry trees in my grandparents garden, father's village.These are at least 6 meters high and the lowest branches are 2 meters. Well they were never pruned so once I got a garden technician to prune them while I stayed a few days there for garden and home details. The worker pruned one tree well down while the other tree was not pruned well by him. When I'll go there I'll study again that. Add the olive tree as I planted that 14 years ago. My relatives take care and all is well. Its not pruned surely so its top is 3 meters high as they told me. I'll go this summer hopefully.
The best fruit tree to grow in the desert is a date palm tree.get as many as possible if they are available in your area.If not then try some online.If you do this commercially, you will be amazed.it's more profitable than all you currently are growing.
Hey Malik. We've had a few folks suggest that and you're right it is an amazing desert adapted fruit tree. We're not fans of dates ourselves, so it would truly be a commercial only crop for us.
Great question Lisa and yes that's definitely an option. We use ours for things that need a bit more of the moisture, but the first time I (Duane) tried a mulberry it was dehydrated. From that I knew I had to have them growing in my yard!!
I have an everbearing in my yard and inevitably I end up with a lot of fruit on the ground. What do you do about the fruit that falls. Do you do anything to reduce the bugs? I wish I could borrow a chicken from someone to clean up under there..
Hey D H. With the exception of Rosie eating a few, we generally don't do much with them directly. What's left after the fruiting season will get turned into the woodchip mulch with our fertilizing that we do later this month, so eventually it will be feeding the worms in the soil. We would let the chickens out onto them, but they end up tearing up all the mulch and spreading it all over the place!
You can definitely use mulberries for jams and jellies. We don't really eat jam and/or jelly, but we use them in smoothies and of course to make wine. Both of those you can use them after being frozen. You would be able to do the same with jams/jellies.
How do you harvest? I am struggling with losing most of my crop to falling and being lost in my woodchips. I try to pick one berry, and 10 ripe ones fall into the woodchips.... Is there a trick? How frequently do you pick from a dwarf everbearing?
Too much fruit, what a wonderful problem to have, huh? We usually harvest these with a bucket under the branch, basically running our hands along the branch which drops the berries into the bucket. We've also used a tarp under the tree and lightly shake the tree, but I will say you spend about as much time removing things you don't want from the tarp as you would just picking from the tree. As for timing, we harvest every day from all of our mulberry trees right now!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you! I really appreciate you taking time out of your very busy schedule to help us newbies grow things in the desert. Thanks so much!
Hey Lucy! The Shangri La is Fantastic! Still our overall favorite, super sweet and good size fruit. We have rooted out some cuttings and hope to do more in the future!
We use the tarp method on and off as well. We find the best ripe fruit remains on the tree when we shake it, so we wind up with mushy berries mixed in with better ones on the tarp. in fact, we show that in today's vlog, so that's good timing on the question. Otherwise, we brush the underside of the branch with an open hand and the ripe ones will usually fall off pretty easily with a little bit of movement.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Nice! At least I know how big they get in a way I have two of them by october is going to be there first year planted in ground. They are already 3 to 4 ft tall and I got them like 6 inches tall lol.
Great suggestion Kelly! We do dehydrate figs and apples, but haven't tried berries. We tend to stick with the freezing on these since we make smoothies most days and love to make wine! May have to try some though, would be a great snack, maybe added to a trail mix!
The trees you're seeing here we brought over as rooted cuttings from our tree on the old farm. I believe we originally bought that several years ago from Richard's Garden Center in North Phoenix.
That stinks June! Hopefully as soon as your tree is big enough they will share some. We do have a bird bath to keep the birds well hydrated in hoping they don't attack all the fruit.
We usually go an entire year before we get through all of our mulberries. Keeping in mind we use them in smoothies, so a little freezer burn is not an issue for us as they store longer.
You know it's strange, but not really. I think it's because a lot of the ants we have here on the farm are either carpenter ants or other ones that consume seeds and the like. At least that's my theory, because they're not all around these trees!
You guys are doing amazing with your farm. We built our own house and I have planted over 25 trees and built 2 raised up garden beds and I am wiped in 9 months. Great work!
Oh my goodness, Justin that's incredible. While we're comfortable growing things, building a house would be a whole other monster that we would be overwhelmed trying to accomplish. Congrats to you guys!
Nice video. I have fond memories of visiting my town library as a kid in Connecticut and the sidewalks being mushy with fallen mulberries
I love hearing these stories. When I was growing up we didn't have any mulberry trees around, but loquat trees where everywhere. Not near as messy, but those trees are some of my favorite to grow as they remind me of a much simpler time.
When you showed the shot of the mulberries laying in the mulch, I was thinking that your chickens would make short work of them. Looks like your goat was also enjoying them.
Yeah, we're trying to figure out how we can move the chickens in on a VERY temporary basis. They just tear up all of the mulch with their scratching and that's critical for these trees to survive our summers.
Wow!! Thats insane how much fruit you got! The goat seems to enjoy it also! And your Tom got HUGE!!!
Hey Kylan! We'll talk a bit more about the amount we've harvested already today, but these 3 everbearing trees are truly beasts!
Almost time for Mulberries again!!
It is VERY close! The late frosts have pushed the season back a couple of weeks, but we can see fruit EVERYWHERE!
@Edge of Nowhere Farm hands down our best year as far as berries on our trees can't wait to start making jam for my homemade crumpets!!
Fellow Sonoran. Good show.
Glad you enjoyed this one!
Thanks. Something to look forward to. I few days ago. I put two dwarf Everbearing Mulberry trees in the ground!
They are Fantastic trees and great producers... You will love them!
Thank you for all these informations..following you from the Philippines...
Hey there Esther, glad you're enjoying the content. I imagine your view is a bit different from your back porch than what we're seeing here. A lot more green I'm sure!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh yes very green surrounded by huge mango trees. We just got back here to retire ..we lived in Canada for 40 years...back to my roots. We are planning to have a mulberry farm hopefully by January
@@estheralcala-hao9472 oh wow, what a huge difference for you guys coming from Canada!!
Let me thank you for this. I'm in 9b, but in lush Florida. We're just coming out of covid but our everbearing is going crazy. We made a small batch of jam but mostly I need more rest. This will allow me to deal with them later. Thank you
Glad to hear you're on the mend. Lori and I have both had it over the last year or so and know how much it can wipe you out! The good news is, those berries will be there for you when you're ready to start munching on them again!
The mulberries jam would also be beautiful .
Yes! We have a friend that made some last year and gave us a jar and it was Fantastic!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm veggie marmalade
Cows Gelatine
@@imanderdumme8706 oh my goodness, I'm not sure about a veggie marmalade!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm nothing to concern about its just the berries with sugar und co without animals being scarified
I suppose having "too many" mulberries is a good problem to have. I just harvested a teeny tiny shangri la mulberry and wow, I can't wait to have "too many!" As always, thank you for the vid.
It is definitely a good problem! We make smoothies most days and love to make wine so we will use them! You should get there with your Shangri La, we have found that they produce much better a few years in!
I love that Rosie eats the ones on the ground.
Hey Alan! She loves mulberries, we literally have to pull her away to make sure she doesn't eat to many and make herself sick lol! We found she really likes loquats too!
Let the chicken eat some also. Get purple egg yolks...just like your fingers. Try leaves for chicken forage in the fall prior to leaves changing color. Luck
Fast forward to 5:38 ;)
We had a mulberry tree that we pollarded, and I used the whips to weave wattle garden fences.
Ooh, now that sounds interesting. Do you have a picture you can share with us? Our email is on the About tab here on RUclips.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I looked through my photos, and evidently didn't take stills. I will review some videos and timestamp the wattling action. Lol. Thanks!
Juice, nectar, jelly add them to ice cream. Make a mulberry dubbie or pie bacis the same recipe as a blackberry one.
And ice cubes. Make a lemonade and use the ice cube in it. Or a canadian whisky tonic and the ice cube.
With you being a commercial farm. Having goats. What would yall have to do to become organic goat ice cream producers? Use up your extra fruit in it.
Or goat milk fat soap with some of the fruits extract in it?
All excellent suggestions here! I'm not sure what we would need to do in order to process the goat's milk into ice cream, but we do have plans for soap and a mulberry scented soap would be amazing. Assuming of course, you're not eating it!! :)
What do you do about groundhogs? I need to go back and watch your other videos. I am trying to bury chicken wire under ground, and we just got a couple of solar stake vibrator things to try out.
I am inspired! We need to pick up a mulberry tree today. I also want an elderberry.
Ground squirrels are a menace for us as well. We don't really worry about them too much with the trees at this point as they don't hurt the larger ones. The younger trees we have used a foliar spray mixed with cayenne and fish emulsion to deter them from eating the leaves during the Summer months. The garden beds are lined with hardware cloth under the soil and we have the beds fully enclosed above and that keeps them out of there.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Okay, Thanks! We have spotted ground squirrels around too, they are very cute! Gardening is such a challenge, but I'm pretty determined. 🌞🌱🏜️
Have you considered investing in a freeze dryer to store your mulberries instead of just putting them in the freezer? They should last longer without losing their flavor and nutrients that way.
Yes, but only briefly until we saw the price tag. Most of the fruit that we keep for ourselves is destined for smoothies and wine, so the moisture is critical for those uses. It would be nice to freeze dry some for snacks though!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, lolrofl, that was the exact same reaction I had when I saw the price tag. Fortunately, my fruit orchard is extremely small compared to yours.
@@riveryzen we're hoping to have most of the heavier production sold to customers, so even though there are a lot of trees, we won't be keeping all of the harvest on several varieties!
So looking forward to our Persian Mulberry setting fruit. We may have to buy another variety to get an earlier harvest. Great tip on saving mulberry’s and thank you for sharing.
Hey Daniel, we have yet to get fruit off our Persian as well. This Illinois Everbearing is a Fantastic option, very productive!
Chicken feed! Turkeys, pigs, mulberries are good eating for all. this is year 4, for the Pakistani, and I actually got a mulberry from it! Out of the hundreds that came on, there's about 5 more that the wind didn't knock off. But, that's life. Revenge is, chilacayote squash planted next to the bush (now over 12 feet tall). Let them climb all over it and I get something out of it, LOL. But, now I keep wondering should I get an everbearing? The quail would be sure to help themselves (a hen is nesting under an overgrown Lady Banks rose, which is now taller than the garage. The rose, not the hen :) And, wow, but a ton of garlic in the garden yet (we're a week+ behind you, and 100 miles south! :) next year, mulberry juice for the sun tea! hasta, kids, it's looking great.
Hey Martin! The chickens and turkeys really do go nuts over these berries. We would let them out on these trees, but they scratch way too much and destroy our woodchip mulch in the process. That being said, they do get several handfuls thrown to them while we're harvesting. The Everbearing is truly amazing in it's production. We'll discuss it in today's vlog, but with inconsistent harvesting over the last 2 weeks we've already accumulated over 45 pounds of fruit almost exclusively from these 3 trees!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm
we just pruned a few branches from my parents backyard. they have a white Pakistani Mulberry that produces heavy, my dad and I had a few handfuls after dinner tonight, he was impressed how well they taste, a lot like honeydew melon! I want to root a few and see if that works, I may air layer it later this summer.
Hey Aaron! If you've found a true White Pakistan you need to do everything you can to root those bad boys out! Let us know how that goes!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I stand corrected, it's a white mulberry. Shorter berry than the Pakistan. I'll have to try a Pakistan berry to compare taste but the berries we ate last night were fantastic! LOL I still want to practice rooting them 😎
Mulberries are some of my favorites. I was bummed yesterday to discover one of mine didn’t come out of dormancy, I started looking around and didn’t notice anything till I saw a tiny hole in the soil at the base. A rodent had chewed all the bark off around almost the entire base and girdled it. Gonna have to find one to replace it now. They’re not easy to find locally, everyone just sells the fruitless variety. This one is one that started out fruitless and I grafted on Pakistani mulberry to the top.
Jared, that just sucks man! I can't stand those little demons, because sometimes you don't see the damage until it's too late. Much like this one! I'm surprised to hear they're selling male/fruitless mulberry trees out your way. The older areas of Phoenix still have several around, but they made them illegal due to the pollen in some areas many years ago. In fact, folks still get confused thinking they are not able to grow the female, fruiting trees.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I wish they would make fruitless ones at least less available here. The fruiting trees sell out immediately during bare root season and then are very hard to find after that. I saw a very small caliper tree last weekend at a local nursery and they wanted $50 for it and it barely had 3 leaves on it. I might have gone for it if it was a little bigger but it should have been a lot more vigorous for this time of year with the nice weather we have been having the last couple months. .
@@jaredmccutcheon5496 sounds like a wise decision on that tree. Right now is peak season for mulberry growth, so that doesn't sound like a happy tree.
That's a great idea to freeze them on trays first and THEN put them in ziplocks. The heart ache I could have saved myself over the years with my watermelon smoothies!
Makes all the difference in the world. We usually let them freeze solid when we're dealing with these smaller fruit, but you can freeze larger fruit like peaches partially through and you'll get the same result.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Another good tip! Thanks again. :)
Awesome, I planted a mulberry this year 😀 hope it does well like yours
Hey Paige! What variety do you get? We have been very impressed with this one and the Shangri La mulberry as well!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I've got the everbearing mulberry and i'm very excited to watch it grow and produce like y'alls!
@@paigeburton8995 good choice. Berries should be on the way next year!
Excellent video, lot to learn.
Thanks Abid. Glad you enjoyed this one!
Good morning and I have a very good point in mulberry trees. They can grow above a hundred years truly and I have 2 white mulberry trees in my grandparents garden, father's village.These are at least 6 meters high and the lowest branches are 2 meters. Well they were never pruned so once I got a garden technician to prune them while I stayed a few days there for garden and home details. The worker pruned one tree well down while the other tree was not pruned well by him. When I'll go there I'll study again that. Add the olive tree as I planted that 14 years ago. My relatives take care and all is well. Its not pruned surely so its top is 3 meters high as they told me. I'll go this summer hopefully.
Mulberry trees really are amazing, long lived trees. Pair that with olive trees and you can have fruit for your great, great grandchildren!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm TRUE
The best fruit tree to grow in the desert is a date palm tree.get as many as possible if they are available in your area.If not then try some online.If you do this commercially, you will be amazed.it's more profitable than all you currently are growing.
Hey Malik. We've had a few folks suggest that and you're right it is an amazing desert adapted fruit tree. We're not fans of dates ourselves, so it would truly be a commercial only crop for us.
What about dehydrating. Would that work too if you don’t have enough space or want more dry storage?
Great question Lisa and yes that's definitely an option. We use ours for things that need a bit more of the moisture, but the first time I (Duane) tried a mulberry it was dehydrated. From that I knew I had to have them growing in my yard!!
I have an everbearing in my yard and inevitably I end up with a lot of fruit on the ground. What do you do about the fruit that falls. Do you do anything to reduce the bugs? I wish I could borrow a chicken from someone to clean up under there..
Hey D H. With the exception of Rosie eating a few, we generally don't do much with them directly. What's left after the fruiting season will get turned into the woodchip mulch with our fertilizing that we do later this month, so eventually it will be feeding the worms in the soil. We would let the chickens out onto them, but they end up tearing up all the mulch and spreading it all over the place!
Huh. Thought you were going to turn them in jam or pickle(is that a thing you can do with them?) them.
You can definitely use mulberries for jams and jellies. We don't really eat jam and/or jelly, but we use them in smoothies and of course to make wine. Both of those you can use them after being frozen. You would be able to do the same with jams/jellies.
How do you harvest? I am struggling with losing most of my crop to falling and being lost in my woodchips. I try to pick one berry, and 10 ripe ones fall into the woodchips.... Is there a trick? How frequently do you pick from a dwarf everbearing?
Too much fruit, what a wonderful problem to have, huh? We usually harvest these with a bucket under the branch, basically running our hands along the branch which drops the berries into the bucket. We've also used a tarp under the tree and lightly shake the tree, but I will say you spend about as much time removing things you don't want from the tarp as you would just picking from the tree. As for timing, we harvest every day from all of our mulberry trees right now!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you! I really appreciate you taking time out of your very busy schedule to help us newbies grow things in the desert. Thanks so much!
How do you like the Shangri-La Mulberry? Also, do you sell cuttings ever?
Hey Lucy! The Shangri La is Fantastic! Still our overall favorite, super sweet and good size fruit. We have rooted out some cuttings and hope to do more in the future!
What's your trick for picking them? We pit down a tarp and shake the tree. Not sure that will be a good method when the tree is too big to shake.
We use the tarp method on and off as well. We find the best ripe fruit remains on the tree when we shake it, so we wind up with mushy berries mixed in with better ones on the tarp. in fact, we show that in today's vlog, so that's good timing on the question. Otherwise, we brush the underside of the branch with an open hand and the ripe ones will usually fall off pretty easily with a little bit of movement.
are those dwarf ever bearing mulberry trees right? I notice by the leave size.
Hey Alberto, yes it is a dwarf Illinois Everbearing! The leaves are a lot smaller then other mulberries.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Nice! At least I know how big they get in a way I have two of them by october is going to be there first year planted in ground. They are already 3 to 4 ft tall and I got them like 6 inches tall lol.
Have you tried dehydrating the berries? I don't know if you can dehydrate them, but maybe you can?
Great suggestion Kelly! We do dehydrate figs and apples, but haven't tried berries. We tend to stick with the freezing on these since we make smoothies most days and love to make wine! May have to try some though, would be a great snack, maybe added to a trail mix!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm yum
Hey EON! Where did you buy the ever-bearing mulberry?
The trees you're seeing here we brought over as rooted cuttings from our tree on the old farm. I believe we originally bought that several years ago from Richard's Garden Center in North Phoenix.
Time to fertilize
Boy, you know it! We have it on the schedule for this month. Lot's of manure to move!
Just wish I could get a few ripe mulberries from my trees BEFORE the birds do. They take them before they are even ripe! Lol! Maybe next year!
That stinks June! Hopefully as soon as your tree is big enough they will share some. We do have a bird bath to keep the birds well hydrated in hoping they don't attack all the fruit.
My question is for how many days u can store in this way plzzz answer me 😢😢
We usually go an entire year before we get through all of our mulberries. Keeping in mind we use them in smoothies, so a little freezer burn is not an issue for us as they store longer.
Do you get ants under your mulberry trees?
You know it's strange, but not really. I think it's because a lot of the ants we have here on the farm are either carpenter ants or other ones that consume seeds and the like. At least that's my theory, because they're not all around these trees!