Friday 18 June 2010

Here we go round the mulberry bush


Most of us remember the nursery rhyme about going round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning, but this 'bush' is about 8 metres  high with a diameter of about 12 metres.  Our olive nets are 8m by 5m and had to be moved to catch the  fruit as it fell off.                            

We collected 5 kgs today  which we have started brewing, that should give us about 10 litres of mulberry wine and the nets are back down underneath to see what drops overnight.  The golden orioles are nesting in the tree and they eat the fruit, along with many other birds.  We can only reach the lower branches, even with a hooked stick to shake the branches with.  We don't want to scare the birds off,  just get some of the fruit!   They're welcome to the top of the tree - it's far too high for us anyway.

Thanks to J for the photo.  I couldn't get all the tree in on my camera, his has a wider lens than mine.


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