Like you, I wanted a longer season to make mulberry muffins and was impressed by all the happy customers growing IL Everbearing up north. The plant that I got from a well-known Houston area nursery was represented as an "IL Everbearing" and has grown well and faithfully made berries. But they are les than 1/2" long MAX. Perfect for bird beaks, but not for a big, hungry human tummy. Nurseries never mislabel plants, right? So, I got scions from a nursery up north from 3 recommended varieties to replace the tops on the supposed IL Everbearing. The grafts all took. The 3 kinds of fruit were very unimpressive and had very little flavor at all. So next March I will clip off those and regraft every branch with a proven, tasty, big-enough variety that works well producing fruit all April each year. Shangri La. Pick them early if you want more tart ness, and pick them a little later if you want less tartness and more sweetness. Pick them too late and they are insipidly sweet/flat tasting. Drop unwanted berries in a big pot of continually moist potting soil and you may have lots of Shangri La seedlings sprouting up that can later be potted separately to give away or plant elsewhere. The leaf patterns will vary a lot. The seedlings grow very fast in full Sun and in good, moist soil mix. Go Saints.

In some parts of the country, St Augustine grass is referred to as centipede and sometimes carpetgrass. Are you sure your neighbors have centipede? Can you post a picture? You can start getting rid of weeds by watering once a week. Yes I know you live in LA and get daily rains but as much as you can control it, try to limit irrigation to no more than once a week so the soil surface will dry out. Then you can help further by mulch mowing at your mower's highest setting. Finally fertilize regularly - unless you really do have centipede, and then fertilize sparingly maybe once a year.

goldens are extremely pliable.... its time to train him NOW ... mine walks the edge of the garden beds.. does NOT walk through them ... put a ring of mulch around the tree... and train him respect it ... better start now.. because 70 to 90 pounds later.. you will have problems ... morning and night.. leash him.. and walk him around the property .. discussing issues of where he is and is not allowed ... they are very bright.. and will soon learn ... key word : "no" ... when you say it .. he should have second thoughts about where he is going.. or what he is doing ... and the level of your voice dictates how important his decision should be .... good luck ken

nospice, I don't know if you got my e-mail. You are certainly welcome to visit. It's just hard to say when I'll be home. I'm home most weekends, but this is the summer and it seems that something is always coming up. I don't have anything to trade right now, but I could start some fig cuttings if you would like. I have Ventura, LSU Gold, Magnolia, and Celeste. I also have two unknown figs and I haven't eaten any figs from them yet. I have many different citrus and you could take buds for grafting.