Hi Lucky,
I know a mulberry tree in zone 4b north of Ottawa,
that is big for a mulberry and has produce mulberries for years. I don't know
the variety or how the quality compares to other mulberry trees, but the owner
spread a bed sheet under his tree once in a while and shakes the tree. He then
separates the black ones from the red and green ones that also fall along with
some leaves and twigs. His mulberry pies are quite good.
Hélène, zone 3
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:00
PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] mulberry
At 06:27 PM 06/14/2001 +0000, Del wrote: >I have
purchesed a 'siberian mulberry' and a 'northern mulberry' hoping to >get
something to grow and fruit here (had a black mulberry
back >home..great pies.)
I suspect that both of these are
probably seedling M.alba selections, but don't know for sure. Bill
MacKently offers a tissue-cultured M.alba selection, "Northrop" from
St.Lawrence Nurseries(http://www.sln.potsdam.ny.us) that's
supposed to have survived -50F.
I've seen a bit of confusion on
classification of the various named mulberry selections, with many of the
'better' ones classified as M.rubraXM.alba hybrids. Wellington,
selected at Geneva, NY, is supposed to be a very good one, and I've seen
it classified both as M.nigra and M.rubraXalba. Mine hasn't fruited
yet - hope to get a few berries off of it this year. Has experienced
some pretty significant winter-kill here in southern KY, so I have some
doubt that it'd work well in MN...
Lucky Pittman USDA Zone
6 Hopkinsville, KY
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