So I walked up the hill to the little woods to see if any of the wild black currants or gooseberries were ripe yet and, to my shock and horror, found a FOURTH mulberry tree growing on our property! I have decided that I am going to pretend it doesn't exist, I don't have the time to pick berries from yet another tree.
I got a LOT of weeding done in the garden yesterday and it needed it. The Yellow Pear tomatoes look like they are trying to take over the garden, they are very bushy plants. Zucchini has blossomed and so have the canteloupes and cucumbers. I also found a Napa Cabbage growing in the garden that I never planted and I do not even own those seeds, very odd .
The compost/deweeding plan for next year's garden bed seems to be working really well, hopefully it will result in much fewer weeds than in this year's garden. Basically I am hauling up the bedding from the hogs and birds and letting it compost in place in what will be next years garden. I let it sit for a week or so to kill the weeds underneath, then I turn it over into a new spot to kill the weeds there and encourage decomposition of the bedding material.
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Are mullberries the same as blackberries or are they they evil cousins of blackberries?
Mullberries are cousins to hops and cannabis
Mulberries are somewhat like big blackberries but without the seeds. They have a little green stem on the end that weirds some people out for some reason.
They grow on a tree instead of a shoot like a blackberry.
And, to the best of my knowledge, they have absolutely no relation to hops or cannabis.
From Wikipedia:
Cannabaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of seven genera, including three well-known genera Cannabis (hemp), Celtis (hackberries) and Humulus (hops). Now placed in the order Rosales, in older literature they were included in the Urticales. The family is closely allied with the other families of the old Urticales (Urticaceae, Moraceae, Ulmaceae).
Moraceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mulberry family. It comprises about 40 genera and over 1000 species of plants widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less common in temperate climates. Included are well-known plants like the fig, banyan, breadfruit, mulberry, and osage-orange.
Interesting post, Anonymous. It sounds like Farmer Jones might be able to graft marijuana cuttings onto his mulberry tree limbs, and thus be able to secretly grow high-grade marijuana in a mulberry tree! That will pay off the old farm mortgage in a hurry.
Can't you, like, brew something with mulberries? Mulberries, and a lot of sugar, and maybe 50% gin after fermentation?
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