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Post by Fractal on Sept 15, 2014 12:41:12 GMT
Though perhaps not your "standard" fruiting plant the black mullberry can produce a good crop of quite delicious fruit. The small tree in parents back garden had a year off from fruiting 2013 but this year has produced loads of these delectable large jewels! The variety is King James I.  |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 15, 2014 13:19:53 GMT
Hope you danced round the mulberry bush  |
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Post by Fractal on Sept 15, 2014 13:44:30 GMT
I would have done but behind it is a large Berberis!
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Post by Cherry on Sept 15, 2014 15:37:40 GMT
I had the biggest Mulberry tree in Oxfordshire (confirmed). The path near it had to be blocked up because the fruit stained clothes and carpets. It was protected, but a lower branch fell on to the boat we had for the Thames and wrecked it, so we sawed quite a lot off the tree and had the tree surgeon lighten it. It was all illegal, but the neighbours were relieved also as they were worried too. We still have the boat and it blocks up one of the outbuildings. I did like the fruit. It made wonderful jelly and jam.
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Post by Rosie on Sept 15, 2014 18:35:41 GMT
I have never tasted a mulberry, what are they like?
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 15, 2014 19:37:05 GMT
I have never tasted a mulberry, what are they like? Mulberries.  |
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Post by Fractal on Sept 15, 2014 20:14:45 GMT
I have never tasted a mulberry, what are they like? It's distinct, not really much like a raspberry or blackberry which they superficially look like. They are related to figs and there is something about fresh figs in the taste though "fruitier!". |
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 15, 2014 20:16:20 GMT
I have never tasted a mulberry, what are they like? It's distinct, not really much like a raspberry or blackberry which they superficially look like. They are related to figs and there is something about fresh figs in the taste though "fruitier!". So, like Mulberries?  |
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Post by Fractal on Sept 15, 2014 20:18:11 GMT
Indeed!  |
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Post by Cherry on Sept 15, 2014 21:09:51 GMT
Mulberries are very tasty. They have to be really ripe, so that they are nearly black. We couldn't really pick the fruit of our large tree, so we would cover the ground with an old sheet and shake the branches, or mostly pick up the fruit off the ground every day. I had a tree here, but it died as it was very exposed to the wind and weather.
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