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Post by shin on May 31, 2017 0:08:32 GMT
Just had a tree I was thinking of cutting down fill out with berries. Now I am wondering what it is. Help if you can please!   |
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Post by shin on May 31, 2017 0:09:23 GMT
Eastern PA here folks.  |
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Post by feather on May 31, 2017 0:22:01 GMT
Maybe a Mulberry Tree?
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Post by Use Less on May 31, 2017 2:14:45 GMT
Sure looks like a mulberry. Any chance of smaller pictures of leaf and berry? If it is, by all means keep it. Get the berries before the birds, and they are delicious  |
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Post by shin on May 31, 2017 3:16:42 GMT
For some reason the auto focus was very unhappy at the idea of having to focus on these berries. I had to switch to manual in the end.  |
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Post by daylilydude on May 31, 2017 8:39:15 GMT
Yep a mulberry tree... better get to pickin... my mouth is droolin! lol  |
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Post by Use Less on May 31, 2017 10:25:52 GMT
Taste a couple. Those could be ready, or they may need to get a little darker to be ripe. Getting them before the birds do is the problem.
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Post by Woodpecker on May 31, 2017 14:00:24 GMT
Ah yes shin, yes mulberries. We use to pick handfuls and eat them when I was a child. They are delicious. The birds do like them ALOT. You'll need to pick them soon. You will have many on the ground soon, if the birds don't eat them first. |
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Post by poppopt on May 31, 2017 14:18:17 GMT
I grew up in Lancaster County, PA. Mulberry trees grow like weeds there. Lots of people hate them. The birds eat the berries and drop their... droppings... on people's cars. That makes for unhappy people. I've known of a few people that cut good mulberry trees down for that reason alone.
Mulberries are quite tart until they're fully ripe. When they're fully ripe, you don't exactly "pick" them. You wave your hand under the cluster, barely brushing them, and what falls off into your hand are the ripe ones. Something I've really wanted to try but haven't is to take a clean sheet and put under the tree and then proceed to shake the tree letting the ripe berries fall onto the sheet. It always seemed like a good way to get the really ripe ones without picking a bunch of almost ripe but quite sour ones (unless you really want the sour ones).
We made some mulberry jelly back in 2014 when we spent some time at my parents' house in PA. We strained it (have I mentioned the seeds? They're a bit like raspberry seeds only bigger if I remember) and made some of the best jelly I think we've ever had. That was some GOOD eats!! A piece of homemade wheat bread warm out of the oven slathered with butter and a generous helping of that mulberry jelly... Mmmm, Mmmmm, MMMM!!!! Might start drooling just thinking about it. LOL!!
I hope we'll have mulberry trees when we find our new place.
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Post by shin on May 31, 2017 18:47:27 GMT
Well, now I am glad I hesitated before chopping it down to figure out what it was. All I did was prune off some low branches. I will have to try some later. Thanks for helping with the ID!
They all may look ripe, but I haven't seen a single one fall to the ground with this windy day, so I may get a surprise on the first test. I wonder if the birds are marking it off, I heard quite a lot of chirping going on when I was looking around underneath it, and later saw a crow chase another bird out of the yard.
I've had the robin family here ignore seeds and just go for digging up the lawn, but I don't know if the local birds are surfeited on mulberries enough to leave some for me or not. I know I never see any raspberries unless I am quick and they are in the midst of blossoming now.
Nothing like free food! Thanks be to God!
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Post by here to stay on Jun 1, 2017 3:25:31 GMT
Generally robins eat fruit and insects and worms. Not seed.
My belief is that birds know 12 hours before you do when berries are ripe. They will all show up on that morning before you get out there.
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Post by shin on Jun 1, 2017 3:43:37 GMT
I'm in Lackawanna county over here. Family are all originally from PA.
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Post by comfortablynumb on Jun 1, 2017 4:12:14 GMT
I have 2 of those, and they grew in the most inconvenient places. Lots of berries but by the time they turn black, the birds strip the trees.
I have cut them down a dozen times, they just keep coming back. I should keep them pruned back like a short bush and give up trying.
I wish they were somewhere else....
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Post by shin on Jun 1, 2017 4:22:03 GMT
Well you could take some cuttings.. I am guessing far more chance of them surviving that way than by seed. O.o
If you look at the pictures of mine there are all those berries.. but it's the lone mulberry tree in my entire yard.
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