Well that’s a bummer..
What good is a mulberry tree if it only produces mulpollen and no -berry?
My Grandmother had two mulberry trees. We kids loved them because of the tasty purple thingies that they produced. Grandma was not necessarily so thrilled because the birds would gift her lawn chairs with purple also.
She and Grandpa also had blueberries, a grape arbor with four types of grapes, red and black raspberries, an orchard with apricot, plum, peach, pear, black cherry, bing cherry, some really tart cherry she used in pies - we kids left them alone because they were SOUR, three - at least - different apples (Grandpa had a cider press), English walnut, black walnut, and butternut trees. Also a well established asparagus patch bounded on one side by rhubarb whose leaves make excellent kid umbrellas, and ground cherries that I have not been able to grow here (the plants grow, flower, and produce what should be fruit, but the fruit doesn’t fully develop in the husk so all I get are husks with a thing inside that is almost but not entirely quite unlike...) And I probably left some things out.
Looking at the property now on gargoyle earth it would appear that all of that is now gone.
Whoa! How fun was your early life???
We didn’t have mulberry trees. We had a HUGH vegetable garden, maybe half an acre, but we had a plum grove (about 10 trees in a circle) two bing cherry trees, two peach trees, strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries and lots of melons.
In the neighborhood were apple orchards (Delicious) an apricot tree, blackberries and wild asparagus along the ditch bank. There was a black walnut tree down the street and a lot of horse chestnut trees in the hood as well as blackberries at the neighbor’s.
Your grandmother made pies from the sour cherries because that’s what they are called: Pie cherries. They hold up better during cooking and canning than other cherries do.
We also had rhubarb, but that was in Alaska.