Today, Felix and I went to our friend Tess's house to raid her mulberry tree.
She had been telling us for ages how chockers it was. "I've picked five buckets and they just keep on coming! The branches are groaning under the weight of the sheer volume of mulberries on this tree! You have to come and eat some!"
Yeah, yeah, I thought to myself... so you've got a few mulberries...
And then I saw the tree for myself. It's kind of hard to tell from the photo above, but the last time I saw those branches they were reaching towards the sky. And this is only a few of the branches...
Felix and Tess and I ate and ate and ate. And then we ate some more. We'd be on one branch stuffing our little faces and then we'd spot another branch that looked better and move on. It really was a most fabulous afternoon of abundance. Faces and hands were pink. Tummies full. Those mulberries... my goodness they were good. Fat, juicy and sweet... we were in mulberry heaven.
And when we arrived back home... I couldn't help but notice that the one half mulberry that was left on my poor sorry stripped tree had ripened. I didn't take a photo, the one above is old, but to me it looked kind of small and proud, sitting all alone there on the tree.Stuffed as I was, I picked it and slowly savoured my lovely little lone mulberry.
Perhaps I am biased, but it seemed to me the sweetest one of all.
16 comments:
Mmmm, we had a lovely old tree in our old house, must plant a new one here! And no wonder yours was so good, it was so loved!
wow! I'm so impressed by that tree! fingers crossed mine will look like that in a few more years - its a quick grower!
I agree with you. The one you have grown yourself will always be better! Your friend should get some silk-worms now...
Yummo! my boys usually go to their Grandmas house this time of year to do the exact same thing1
I've never had mulberries but they look lovely and sweet.
I loved the little tale of your lone mulberry!
WOW, they look amazing! I didn't realise how huge those babies are!
Deb
Don't worry. Your tree will be just like Jess's in a few years and you will be giving them away too.
Divine. Our baby mulberry has been very generous this year too...must get it into the ground and hope it gets like that one!
You know I don't think I have ever eaten a Mulberry.
Mulberry season! Over here we only ever see them after they've passed through a bird onto our car windshield! Lucky you! :)
What do you mean "over here"? Aren't you in Sydney??
Dirtandflowers - send me your address and I'll send you one :D
Mrs Bok, I hope I am saying that about mine next year!
Hehehe..yes, "over here" in suburban inner-west Sydney where the neighbours up the street have a tree that the birds eat the mulberries off and then poop them onto my car. :) I've never actually seen them for sale anywhere!
Aren't you in Melbourne? ;-)
Celia I was thinking to myself, Celia thinks I'm not an Aussie! For some reason that had me worried :D. I wondered too at mulberries not being for sale in shops, but methinks that they don't last five minutes beyond the picking... and you go raid one of those trees with the birds!
I am sooo planting a mulberry tree!
haha... they only look so big in little teeny tiny hands :)... and a word of advice on raising a 'bust-at-the-britches' mulberry tree... prune it every year like your life depends on it. mine sprouted up to 5 meters high for the past 3 years and I cut it down to my head height (about 1.7m). Makes for lots of branches - eager to fruit it seems :)
When is it a good time a mullberry tree
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