🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[Baymule]

We planted a mulberry tree, they also come up all over. Much harder to pull out, even the seedlings. I hate them...lol

We had our mulberry removed...but just discovered another. It's growing along the fence, on the neighbor's side.

And here I was considering planting a couple of the white Russian mulberries, shade for the sheep and fruit for the birds. White, because the purple mulberries make such a mess, not to mention purple bird poop on EVERYTHING. If they are going to come up all over the place, I think I'll pass. I don't want to be the one that unleashes a new invasive on the neighborhood. Thanks for the warning!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I love Mulberries! I have a couple in the backyard. Chickens love them too and would gather 'round when I picked - knowing I'd drop some. I planted 3 out by the pond that I'll also share with the wild birds.

 

[drstratton]

And here I was considering planting a couple of the white Russian mulberries, shade for the sheep and fruit for the birds. White, because the purple mulberries make such a mess, not to mention purple bird poop on EVERYTHING. If they are going to come up all over the place, I think I'll pass. I don't want to be the one that unleashes a new invasive on the neighborhood. Thanks for the warning!

I just did some research on these. If you can find a native variety, they are not invasive. But, they do come with the red berries. I'm thinking the one we planted might be a hybrid variety, because it has red berries and it definitely spreads from seed.

When we planted ours, we didn't research it well enough. I now try to make sure that what I'm planting isn't invasive.

My SIL bought a beautiful plant that I thought I would love to get, but after I researched it, I had to share with her that it would spread aggressively. She pulled hers out.

 

[drstratton]

I love Mulberries! I have a couple in the backyard. Chickens love them too and would gather 'round when I picked - knowing I'd drop some. I planted 3 out by the pond that I'll also share with the wild birds.

Yours must be the native variety.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yours must be the native variety.

No idea, but they are pretty well behaved. And because they are away from cars and driveways they don't really make a mess. Besides - the chickens eat everyone that drops and I've even caught them jumping up for ones on low hanging branches, lol.

 

[drstratton]

These are all Mulberry seedlings under our Deodar Cedar. We've cleaned this out several times this summer.

 

[drstratton]

Dale took the shade cover off a few days ago. This should allow the sunshine to warm them up a little more. Getting ready for winter.

Mixing up 3g of syrup to put in for them tomorrow morning. 1g per hive.