Ruth Nakamura · August 14, 2026
I got an email last spring from a reader with a couple of acres that made me pause. She had let a section of her property go wild — a proper meadow, thick with grasses and black-eyed Susans by midsummer — and she wanted to know if she could plant a mulberry tree right in … Read more
Ruth Nakamura · August 14, 2026
I get one of the odder questions pretty regularly, and honestly, I’ve come to look forward to it: What does “Brazilian mulberry,” sometimes called khatas, actually taste like? The thing is, I have to be upfront about something right away. I haven’t grown this plant myself. I know—disappointing, right? But here’s the thing: the name … Read more
Ruth Nakamura · August 6, 2026
Mulberry trees are forgiving in a lot of ways — they’ll tolerate neglect, shrug off imperfect soil, and still push out fruit when other trees would give up. But if you want to actually expand your collection, feed your trees well, and get the soil conditions right, you need more than a shovel and good … Read more
Ruth Nakamura · August 6, 2026
Every so often, I get a comment on one of my variety posts from someone deep in the backyard fruit-collector world, asking how Chiang Mai 60 stacks up against Austrian or Brazilian mulberry for taste. These are not names you will find at a garden center — they circulate through scion-trading forums and small specialty … Read more
Ruth Nakamura · August 6, 2026
I got two emails in one week that made me sit back and laugh — not at my readers, but at how a single variety of mulberry tree has managed to become something of a folk legend that doesn’t quite match reality. The first email came from a reader who’d found the Illinois Everbearing Mulberry … Read more
