Forum home› Fruit & veg
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Here we go round the mulberry bush!!

debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
in Fruit & veg
Hi all going to try mulberry bushesthis year on the allotment. Any tips? I ask because my blueberries have so far been a dismal failure and want to avoid any more mistakes! Thanks 

Posts

  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I've only tasted mulberries once in my life. but they are lovely.
    When I was a child we visited Rudyard Kipling's home, Batemans, and there was alarge muberry tree dropping its fruit all over the paving below.
    My grandmother, never backward at coming forward, went and asked if she could pick some and was granted permission, so it was Kipling's mulberries for tea :)
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    These are advertised as being quick to fruit but we shall see, hubby wants to try mulberry vodka but if they don’t get fruit I expect he will just drink his vodka plain! 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Oh dear.  I sowed some last year from RHS seeds scheme.  Looks like I'll have to wait a long time for any to reach fruiting size.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • mrtjformanmrtjforman Posts: 331
    what went wrong with your blueberries? I find them so easy, only lost a tiny bush once due to wrong soil. Seems to all be about the soil with blueberries.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Just no fruit! Healthy bushes but not a single berry. 2 years running they are on their final warning now! 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You need pollinators and no frosts at blossom time or you'll get no fruit.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
Sign In or Register to comment.