Blackberry's Everywhere!
Not the electronic kind; the fruit kind. My neighbours (both sides of me) have huge trees in their yards that produce a blackberry type of fruit. The fruit falls and the rotting fruit covers my yard. It stains my clothing, sneakers and floors inside my house. I tried putting up three sunshades but many berries…
Not the electronic kind; the fruit kind. My neighbours (both sides of me) have huge trees in their yards that produce a blackberry type of fruit. The fruit falls and the rotting fruit covers my yard. It stains my clothing, sneakers and floors inside my house. I tried putting up three sunshades but many berries still collect and rot on top. The flies are unbareable.
I am would like to put a deck or patio in my yard but I am not sure what the best solution is to deal with this problem. Will my wood deck stain? Are pavers better? Will te berries rot in my mulch?
Does anyone have any experience with this problem?
OP, by any chance do you live in Crown Heights because I’m in the same boat? I’m putting in sod on Friday and now am worried about the mulberries falling all over the sod. Urgh!!!
Talk to your neighbor.
If they’re loving their mulberries (they’re good!), you ought to be able to work out a way to have the tree pruned to everyone’s satisfaction and you don’t have to just hack the branches at the property line and leave a frankentree.
im in the same situation, i sweep up the berries and scrub down the patio with bio degradable soap… this temporaraily gets rid of the flies. it kind of sucks, but what to do
When life hands you mulberries, learn to make mulberry wine:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request135.asp
Premadas, 9:08 – It would help others, as well as OP, to post your question as a separate thread. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has tremendous resources for questions such as yours: 718-623-7200. The NYC Tree Trust has programs in addition to their book. See: http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets/ny_trust.html
I just looked a the “Great Tree Trust” and it was started in 1985 and a book was published in 2000. It doesn’t look like they are interested in documenting any more trees. Too bad because I just bought a house with a very old, tremendous tree in the backyard.
Any recommendations for a company to help care for it?
the upside is the berry shedding season is all but over now, so there shouldn’t be any increase in berries, just the mounds piled up and rotting to take care of!
You bought a house flanked by two 6-story trees and never noticed? Bring out your deck chair, sit in the filtered sunlight and enjoy the birds feasting in their branches. Sit out on your stoop and enjoy life with your neighbors. The only thing keeping you out of your yard is your resentment. If the trees are really as tall as you say, register them with the city’s great trees program: http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets/ny_tree_trust/great_trees.html
Based on this post and on the locked-up planter thread, the trees were not only there long before you arrived, they will be there long after you leave (unless, that is, you find a way to set them out in planters).
Doesn’t all that mess bother the owner’s and get tracked into their house too? Have you ever tried to talk to them about it?