For months, my mulberry leaf tea was a complete gamble. Sometimes it tasted smooth and grassy. Other times it came out bitter and flat. I had no idea what I was doing wrong — until I realized my old kettle…
Last spring, I was three trees deep into my annual mulberry pruning session when my old hand pruners finally gave up. The blade had gone dull, the spring was weak, and every cut required twice the effort it should. My…
Every mulberry season, I tell myself the same lie: “This year I’ll stay on top of the harvest.” Then July hits, the trees go absolutely wild, and I’m standing outside in the heat with purple-stained hands, picking berry by berry…
Every mulberry season, I lose about a third of my harvest to the sky. My white mulberry tree has grown enormous over the past decade, and the best, fattest berries always cluster near the top — completely out of reach….
Every mulberry season, I end up with the same messy problem. Buckets of stems, overripe fruit, and spent leaves pile up faster than I can deal with them. I’d been searching for a real solution to my compost tumbler mulberry…
Two summers ago, my mulberry trees looked embarrassing. The leaves were pale and smallish, the fruiting was sparse, and one of my three trees had barely put on any new growth at all. I had been gardening for years, but…
Last spring, I lost nearly half my mulberry grafts in a single season. The culprit? Cheap, brittle grafting tape that either snapped under tension or suffocated the union by refusing to break down naturally. If you’re researching a grafting tape…
Last spring, I nearly lost two of my younger mulberry trees to inconsistent watering. I was hand-watering a small orchard of ten trees every other day, and honestly, life kept getting in the way. Finding the right drip irrigation kit…
Every summer, my mulberry trees absolutely bury me in fruit. Last season, I picked close to 30 pounds in a single week. I had smoothies, jam, and frozen bags coming out of my ears. What I really wanted, though, was…
Last spring, I walked out to check on my young mulberry saplings and felt my stomach drop. Two of my most promising trees had been completely stripped of bark near the base. Deer had been at them overnight, and the…
