Mulberry Hell!
There are two mulberry trees in my backyard. One is very huge and is overflowing with mulberries which can be quite messy and stain virtually everything it comes in contact with. I was told by my sister-in-law that I just cannot cut the tree down. I don’t understand why not, it’s my backyard. Help!!! What…
There are two mulberry trees in my backyard. One is very huge and is overflowing with mulberries which can be quite messy and stain virtually everything it comes in contact with.
I was told by my sister-in-law that I just cannot cut the tree down. I don’t understand why not, it’s my backyard. Help!!!
What steps should I take and who can I call to chop this mulberry tree down?
God, I hate mulberry trees. Ugly even before they drop that awful mess. Nuke ’em all, for my money.
But the advice from Ryan 5:12 is not so good: “If you want to kill it. Just bury the bottom 12 inches with dirt, and rocks, and it will sufficate and die. If you want a faster kill remove a 2 inch stip of bark around the cicumference of the trunk.”
Um, first, on the idea that mounding dirt 12 inches around a tree will kill it (until after 63 years or so): No, it won’t.
Second, in an urban area, where the children frolic just across the fence from your ugly-ass mulberry, killing a tree and waiting for it to fall wherever it chooses is not a good program.
Posted by: ryan at June 19, 2007 5:12 PM
We made a mulberry pie last year off of mulberries from near the brooklyn navy yard. Rather easy. Collect mulberries, dump in pie shell. Possibly add sugar and lemon. Bake.
I have had a lot of tree work done by Urban ARborists — tree removal, pruning, trimming and recently some emergency work after the Nor’Easter.
They are good but not cheap. One poster had a good experience recently with the New York Tree & Shrub Co. (718-358-4728), which did work for a very good price.
Please don’t try killing a tree on your own. This might work in the wilderness where an uncontrolled fall is not going to hurt anybody or anything but we are living in Brooklyn and you don’t want to hurt anyone or your property with a sick tree.
My neighbor has one and it’s dropping gooshy berries all over the place in my back yard… I’m actually thinking of putting in some sort of canopy/tarp so it deflects the berries, possibly for collection… I hear they’re actually quite tasty.
Anyone ever make Mulberry Jam? Post any good recipes!
good choice. Sounds like you already have a huge one, so really no need to tell you they grow like weeds. But…they do!
Our neighbor let one grow right on our property line and when we moved in 3 years ago it was a scrawny tiny thing. Seemed like no big deal. Now it’s a big messy beast and needs to come down. Luckily we are on the same page.
If it’s in the back yard you can cut it down. Tree cutting and removale can get pricey.
If you want to kill it. Just bury the bottom 12 inches with dirt, and rocks, and it will sufficate and die.
If you want a faster kill remove a 2 inch stip of bark around the cicumference of the trunk.
Thank you all. I think that I will call a professional ASAP to cut the tree down. I agree with the above poster that a mulberry tree is not a great choice for a backyard. I will plant another tree in its place — not a mulberry tree.
I used The Care of Trees to remove a mulberry from my backyard. I think they are on the expensive side of what I have read on these forums.
http://www.thecareoftrees.com/
Meh. It’s your backyard. Go Paul Bunyon on it and have Babe the Blue Ox cart it away.