Will mulberry tree ruin my garden?
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Comments (7)Any tree can be kept to a reasonable size if you are willing to prune it. Keep in mind, you also need to do root pruning occasionally. If you are willing to do this I would recommend buying the best tasting mulberry you can find, not necessarily one that is a dwarf. I have heard that the Persian variety is the best, but this is not from personal experience. Mulberries will fruit relatively prolifically when they are of a small size. My three foot tall Pakistan mulberry has about 25-30 fruits ripening this year. Hope this helps. -Brett...See MoreWhat is this plant/weed? It's ruining my garden
Comments (9)10 to 15 feet is nothing for a trumpet vine. Nor do they have trouble sprouting up through heavy asphalt or cracks in concrete. I happen to love them, so have to deal with the suckers, mostly by cutting them out whenever they appear and as deeply as possible. it's not all that bad, at least here in MN. Though hardly a crusader, I myself don't use any poisonous sprays, which to my mind ultimately do more harm than good. Even small amounts of herbicide drift, e.g. from RoundUp, will cause ugly deformation of tomato and other vegetables (and more); not so great for the groundwater either. In any case, I doubt that even heavy doses of toxic chemicals will stop a determined trumpet vine. Gary...See MoreMulberry Trees and Putting In a Garden
Comments (7)Wow, what a response! Thanks everyone. : ) First of all, I am not sure what kind of mulberry trees they are. They make teeny, tiny little berries that turn blue eventually, but I have never seen the birds eating them. The mulberry trees I have, I am guessing, are not an especially coveted variety. They were undoubtedly planted to grow fast to protect the house from (1) the awfully hot sun in the warm weather months (yard faces south/southwest, and the property would bake even worse in the warm weather months without them), and (2) the prying eyes of the low-rent multi-family housing in the back of my house. I am not someone who could build raised beds, though, and that is why I wondered about the roots. I had a landscaper look at the yard two years ago, and he even drew me a plan, which included plants underneath the mulberry trees, but he did not indicate he would put in a raised bed. I presumed he was not worried about disturbing the roots as he did not mention anything to me about that. I did not have him make the garden because the cost was prohibitive. As for seedlings, nothing comes up under those trees. In fact, aside from one small area of the yard that gets a bit of morning light, nothing at all comes up except a few small weeds in that one small area, and even they are not very vigorous. I would be happy to take some pictures and post them to this site, but I do not know how to do that. I do not see a link on the message box for attachments. If anyone can tell me how to embed pictures in my posts, I can do so. In the meantime, I can try to get out there with a tape measure and see what the exact measurements are. Thanks....See MoreGardening is RUINING my relationship!
Comments (29)I have no business here, since I was just searching the forums for threads on lasagne gardening, but I just have to interject a comment!! Catnip, you are SOOOO lucky your boyfriend shares your love of gardening!!! My boyfriend (who I love dearly) doesn't. He isn't against it, but isn't overjoyed at the thought of spending time on his knees in the yard up to his elbows in soil with his butt sticking up in the air, as I am. He drops me off at the Nursery to browse and comes back for me later to help me haul my purchases home. I'm not complaining, mind you, but I would love it if he wanted to help me build a compost pile or had something he really, really wanted to try growing this year. Even if he got interested all of a sudden and started telling me I was doing it all wrong, I'd just laugh at him and hand him a trowel. So count your blessings, young lady!! :-)...See More- 9 years ago
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