I have a black everbearring mulberry tree. Bought it when it was 4 ft. Barefoot, planted in the ground ( that was 6 years ago) now my tree is big , I trim it heavily every year. I have being making tea wth the leaves, hot on winter ( dry the leaves for winter use) and in summer time I make cold drink with it. I make the tea add some ice cubes, some fresh mint leaves ( my favorite is apple mint or nepetilla, both have the same flavor) and add a tablespoon of my homemade mulberry jam. Mmmm delicious.
Morbus Alba is the best for medicine as well! I don't have white mulberry here but I know where a tree grows that I can get berries and cuttings from. I may try to start my own here from that tree.
thank you for making the video you seem like a very good guy but please please don't pour hot water hot tea in a plastic container Drinking Warm Water From Plastic Bottles or plastic containers May Raise Cancer Risk. New research suggests that people should avoid drinking water from plastic bottles if they have been sitting in a warm environment
Thank you for your view and comment. Mulberry is one of my all -time summer favorites. I should have already started putting up leaves for the winter. I haven't done that yet but now while I'm on vacation is a great time to start drying some for winter tea.
The cardinal singing its aproval maybe? Btw I have 9 white mulberry trees that have sprouted in my yard. Should I dig most of them and sell them or maybe share with neighbors?They are young ,about 3-4 ft high
I just grew up drinking mulberry leaf tea and still lived to grow up! Mulberrys should be great this year with all the rain and mulberry leaf is on the menu this year as an edible as well. Thanks for watching and for your comment!
Wayne Rogers Outdoors I have about 30 varieties and I am just learning the leaves are good for you. I am going to start drying some leaves and also using them fresh.
I'm getting ready to make another batch as soon as I get back to the cabin. I have been away and not spent much time there as of late. Thank you for watching!
I made tea and enjoyed it's benefits. At first, I made it hot and taste good but won't last until next day. Your video give me additional info.that helps the tea great for the next day or so.
Thank you for your comment! There are still some young leaves worth saving that I have seen on the trees due to recent rain and a short growth spurt. Now is definitely a good time to harvest some for drying for winter tea. I have procrastinated and should have had some saved before now.
This is the third year for my mulberry tree, according to what I have read it should start producing berries this year, curious what month should I start seeing the fruit, I live in Atlanta, Ga. Thanks for the video, I have been buying dried mulberry leaves for years for tea making but because of the price I bought a tree. Didn’t know you could eat the leaves also. Very helpful video, thanks again.
Most mulberry trees start putting on green fruit in late May but down that far south it may happen sooner so who knows? You may have your first green fruits as early as just a few weeks from now! I know I'm looking forward to the season here. I know where a white mulberry tree is and I'd love to get some fruit from it and start my own.
I'm in Cleveland Georgia and we have had three mulberry trees for longer than that, and we've still never gotten a berry. They start to set berries, and then they drop to the ground. I don't know if it's the soil or the late freezes or what.
@@lilawiese2460 Thanks for your input. Same here, no fruit this year. May try fertilizing. I see banana plants here but have never seen them flower & fruit. When living in Florida I was told you have to really pour the fertilizer to them in order to get bananas before the cooler weather begins. Maybe same here???
I'm in North Texas in the DFW area. Mulberry trees grow wild here. Well, all over Texas. They are full of ripe fruit right now! It's late April here btw.
Just be careful because there is another tree that is called mulberry that is not in the same genus. I don't know much about it but some countries have a tree that is different. Also, those that are what westerners know as mulberries can either be green all year, or go through a winter phase of being leafless. But still the same tree. So whatever your usual thing is for most trees in your area, mulberries will do that too! They are very forgiving or conversely very adaptable. They should fruit from the first year if given enough nutrition. By year 3 they are ready for a 100percent prune off almost to the ground and start again. Plant new ones every year for a continuous stream of large fruit.
There are three types of Mulberry. Black, white, and red. All are safe for human consumption when the fruits are ripe and all are toxic if the fruits are unripe and can cause severe stomach upset and even hallucinations if large amounts are ingested. Also the leaves are mildly toxic on all three if you have a latex sensitivity but completely safe for everyone else if you don't. Add to that, mulberry has no poisonous look-alikes so a mulberry can't be mistaken for anything else and nothing else can be mistaken for a mulberry. The danger with mulberry leaf comes from the possibility that they can cause hypoglycemia because the tea naturally lowers blood sugar, making it great for type 2 diabetics like myself, and mulberry leaf is very high in potassium which can be detrimental to anyone with kidney problems because their kidneys will not be able to process and filter the excess potassium out of the body. There is no " poisonous " mulberry tree anywhere on Earth. Unless you have kidney disease, diabetes or a latex allergy you will have no problems with mulberry leaf tea. There are many cultivars and even hybrids of the three types but all are safe and used exactly the same way.
@@WayneRogersOutdoors Hi Wayne, yes I agree with you on all of that. However the tree I am referring to does not even look like what we would usually refer to as mulberry. I just came across it again recently and one other time many years ago. I wondered if the author had got the name wrong or the person who did the transcript. In anycase it is wise to be sure you do indeed have a mulberry tree before you begin consuming parts of it. Mine are just starting to come into leaf again now. I am in sthn Qld Australia so it is winter here and the leaf buds are just breaking open now. In two weeks or so they will be in full leaf again. I just pruned them hard, down by more than half. I will have all new trees this year.
Are you talking about the Paper Mulberry? Yeah, it's not a true Mulberry. It's fruit is much different looking, but it's edible. I don't know about the leaves because they are really fuzzy! 😁
I have a black mulberry tree and about sixty ft. from it is a white mulberry tree. The white mulberry tree is younger and berries are very sticky because so sweet. Sweet as honey. I am very blessed to have both kinds. I did not know about the white mulberry, so googled and brought up some videos. I read that white mulberry trees are banned in california as they are invasive. I think this is terrible because it seems The Controlling powers do not want people to eat things that are natural and good for them anymore.
@@WayneRogersOutdoors not sure about ours yet, we got a hard freeze after they leaved, burnt every leaf off. Hopefully they'll produce berrys seen before where they didn't after a late freeze. Indiana
The tea and the berries are great for me as well. I have moved but luckily where I live now still has a lot of mulberry so I don't have to go without and I can enjoy it all summer long.
Most people have no problem with latex. However, some are sensitive to it and it causes problems so for full disclosure reasons I like to point it out. Drying the leaves helps with that. The latex is part of the trees natural defense against caterpillars because it's full of sugar-mimicking alkaloids which discourage caterpillars from eating so much they kill the tree but is perfectly harmless to silkworms. It's also pretty harmless for people because we are talking only trace amounts.
Does anyone know the best months to trim back a white mulberry tree? We live in South New Jersey by the bay and we trimmed our tree last year ( we think mid October) and now it's late June and we have so many white mulberries. I believe the berries come mid Spring ( March, April ( and last through to the early summer like June. ) Their last month we see the berries is probably June or so from what I'm learning. To be honest we did not realize it was a mulberry tree until today June 24, 2021. We always noticed the green buds on the tree and assumed they would be flowers. Then we noticed the fruit on the ground these last weeks and we said they look identical to black and red mulberries but they are just white in color. After doing some research and knowing what they are now I want to keep this process going of berries every year. I'm excited to use the leaves for tea and to also try to eat the leaves with maybe veggies inside. I saw a RU-vid video of a woman saying she uses the leaf and stuffs veggies inside the leaf, rolls the leaf , and puts a tooth pick in it and bakes it for 5 - 7 minutes. I may try that too. Thought I'd share that with you. 🙂My 4 questions I'd like your opinion on are : 1. ) Should I pick a great amount of leaves now off the tree, ( near the last month of berries, if I'm even right about the berries ending around June) put them in storage bags to use for later? Refrigerate/freezer the leaf bags OR just sealing them and keep in a cupboard is all that is probably necessary, room temperature? 2.) Does storing/ saving the leaves for a couple of months change the flavor of the tea compared to fresh picked leaves made into tea? 3.) Best trimming months to get strong fruit production every year? Your opinion. Thanks. 4. Have you ever froze mulberries to use later? Do you refrigerate mulberries a couple of days? White mulberries are brand new to me so I apologize for all of these questions. I really enjoy your video. I subscribed to you. It makes me excited to use our mulberry tree for some healthy drinks and snacks. I just love it.
The dried leaves work absolutely fine. You can buy dried mulberry leaves for tea in a lot of places around the world. You can even order it online. For wintertime tea I harvest the leaves in the summer while they are still green and let them dry indoors out of the sun. Then I have mulberry tea leaves all winter long.
@@WayneRogersOutdoors Thank you for the quick reply. I am very pleased we have since new a mulberry and I did not know how versatile it can be enjoyed. Kind regards from Switzerland
@@WayneRogersOutdoors it's simple wash them, cut it and boil the water put some salt cook it until it's soft then put some tomatoes and onions and can use oil of your choice l like Oliver oil the it taste very good and smells very good you will enjoy it .
Mainly for lowering cholesterol, blood sugar and inflammation making it great for diabetes and heart disease. Here is a partial list of medical/health benefits. Reducing the level of blood sugar Contributes to weight loss and management Suppressing hypertension Lowering cholesterol level in the body Strengthening organs in the body such as the liver and kidney Suppressing mutagenesis of carcinogens Strengthening bone mass Improving skin Improving the ability for digesting and assimilation Enriching the blood and, in the process, soothing the nerves Helpful in treating constipation Helpful in preventing liver cancer through regular use A great source of protein, vitamins A, C, and B family of vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and amino acids.
@@SueLall1008 hallo Lall Im chinese living in indonesia....I gots lots of information from chinese literature that mullberry leave leafe has medicine benefit that old chinese people already use it since their ancient time...
@@WayneRogersOutdoors I ever know that all yr info is true...I know from chinese old litterature and these time many video from taiwan also has published abt mulbery medicine advantage
The sap can be very mildly hallucinogenic that is contained in the unripe berries and the mature leaves according to many sources but you would have to eat the leaves and the berries directly from the tree as a raw vegetable and in quite a large quantity to suffer any effects. Boiling the leaves cooks the hallucinogenic effect out of the leaves. One should never consume the unripe fruit in any quantity but my cousins and I would eat less than perfectly ripe berries when we were children because they are more tart and break up the sweetness of the fully ripe ones. This, too, did us no harm as you would only throw in just a few of the unripe ( not green, just unripe ) to add a slightly tart flavor.
Which is why I warn against it for people with latex allergies or pregnant or nursing women. I assume you are referring to Lori McClintock who died from using white mulberry leaf. ONE person has died from mulberry leaf. Just one out of billions. If you google Mulberry leaf deaths Lori is the ONLY result on all of google. For perspective, hundreds of people a year worldwide die from choking on hot dogs. I don't see a warning label on hot dogs. I get where you are going but one death in billions doesn't make something safely used by millions suddenly toxic that should be avoided.
There is s great benefit to a fruitless mulberry because you do not have the mess of dealing with the fallen fruit on vehicles or driveways and staining the bottoms of shoes, etc. The leaves, though, can be used exactly the same on the fruitless variety. Personally I like the fruiting variety but wouldn't mind having a fruitless growing right in the corner of my back yard for shade without the mess because Mulberry grows so fast it's unreal.
You need to prune it every time the branches keeps growing.. Dont let the branches grow up so high. Many fruits will appear on the cut branches after a month or 2. You will enjoy it.
@@josephcagalawan7295 you should prune all the leaves. When the leaves grow again, they will grow with the fruits. I plant my mulberries in large pots, so my plant is quite big with loads of berries. I live in Malaysia so our weather is the same.
Bro nobody ever got diabetic eating fruit. You’re fine. You need to cut out all the non natural foods if you’re type 2. Processed food is basically alcohol. Treat it as such.
1. I never said fruit causes diabetes. 2. Having diabetes DOES mean you have to watch your fruit intake because fruit does contain sugar. 3. I have been diabetic for 8 years and already know exactly how to eat. Therefore, I know more than most about processed food and the health risks. 4. This video has nothing to do with processed food.
