MULBERRY TREE
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:53 pm
So then, this mulberry tree wot has been visited upon me ....... at the beginning of June all the catkins fell off in the course of about a week. The grass was covered in them - a pale yellow halo all around the tree. Should have taken a , never thought.
Anyway, it saw fit to position itself right up against the side wall, which belongs to my neighbour ( ), and therefore overhangs her sterile, flagstoned "garden". I learned that said catkins were blocking her drain so Eric pruned the offending overhanging branches (badly). End of.
Not wishing to repeat the offence next June, I waited until the season was right and have contacted a real tree person to move it for me.
So - "Paul" is coming to have a butcher's on Thursday morning . He is tickled pink at the thought of a mulberry and was quite chatty on the 'phone. It seems that the correct procedure is to dig right around the roots and prune them to manageable proportions. Leave it in its hole for a week to allow the beginnings of fibrous roots where the cuts were, and dig the new hole and line it with leafmould. Then return a week later and plant it in its new home.
Then you cross your fingers .......
Updates on demand.
Anyway, it saw fit to position itself right up against the side wall, which belongs to my neighbour ( ), and therefore overhangs her sterile, flagstoned "garden". I learned that said catkins were blocking her drain so Eric pruned the offending overhanging branches (badly). End of.
Not wishing to repeat the offence next June, I waited until the season was right and have contacted a real tree person to move it for me.
So - "Paul" is coming to have a butcher's on Thursday morning . He is tickled pink at the thought of a mulberry and was quite chatty on the 'phone. It seems that the correct procedure is to dig right around the roots and prune them to manageable proportions. Leave it in its hole for a week to allow the beginnings of fibrous roots where the cuts were, and dig the new hole and line it with leafmould. Then return a week later and plant it in its new home.
Then you cross your fingers .......
Updates on demand.