anyone do anything with mulberries?

[Chase515]

Mulberry 's fall into the brush / invasive species category. You have to kill the "stump" so to speak. Tordon RTU will do this. It's not cheap though!

You can also drill 1/2 inch holes in the stump and fill the holes with rock salt or drive way salt. Kills them everytime

 

[Hotdoger]

Mulberry 's fall into the brush / invasive species category. You have to kill the "stump" so to speak. Tordon RTU will do this. It's not cheap though!

Seen it real cheap (on sale) at Rual King several times this year.

 

[Mog]

My gram had one when we were growing up. Just mixed them in with cold sweet cream - yummy. She also made jam, pies, turnovers, etc with them. Just used them pretty much the same as any other berry.

Yep! Any recipe that will work for blackberry (or raspberry, etc) will work for mulberries. I made cobblers with them way back in the day-- hadn't thought of it for a long time but maybe I need to do that again!

 

[jordyman]

I made a crisp with them using mulberries and rubarb. It was killer, dont believe that **** about not being able to use them. The kind of people that tell you they dont have a use are the ones that will come knocking on your door for a handout when they can feed themself anymore.
Use it like you would a blackberry, they are free, everywhere and are mild enough to do damn near anything with. I have a few on my property and the trick is to get them before the birds.

I lay a tarp down on the ground, and either wait or shake the dog**** out of the tree and let em go. Same way with persimmon but you dont shake them or you get those god awful bitter nasty ones. Like nothing Ive ever ate before they were terrible.

 

[RichardR]

We collect & eat all sorts of wild berries every year, granted the mulberries are not as flavorful as the wild blue, black or raspberries are, but they are still good eats.

Anyway as previously mentioned, you can use mulberries for literally anything that you can use black, blue or rasp berries for.

My personal favorite is mulberry buttermilk pancakes though.

 

[grunt soldier]

another good option for them is to collect them and feed them to your chickens. it keeps my girls out of the raspberries and blackberries. the chickens love them.

 

[RichardR]

Good point Grunt, yea my chickens love berries too, thankfully we've got so many that they can't strip the briars clean no matter how many they eat.

The only bad thing about mulberries is their super-short shelf-life, even refrigerated they go back really quick, other than that we love them.

 

[Pete]

Tordon RTU will kill mulberry trees. Put some on the stump when the tree is cut. Be careful other trees can be killed by the residual in the roots. I cut 2 massive mulberries down & the residual killed some hard maples close by. It's at Rural King for about $14.