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I am determined to find an easy way to collect mulberries without them covering the ground every day.

I found some tree netting which is meant to protect against birds but wondered if this would suffice for collecting berries too..

Is anybody else in this situation and have a solution... do you happen to know how tightly woven tree netting is.. would it be enough to hold a mulberry/cherry etc.

cheers

osie

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Hi Osie.  Lucky you having a mulberry. Tree netting usually has a mesh about 3 cm dia so many fruits would fall through.

Any cloth spread under the tree (provided it is not so old that the lower brabches aren't on the ground- I have a friend with a 200 year old mulberry!) can have the edges/sides gently lifted each day and the fruit rolled to a unified point for collection.

Grumpy

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Hi Grumpy

Ours is 250 years old from Japan according to the neighbours... maybe they are brothers.

I think the way forward is to tie some netting to the branches and somehow get the berries to roll down ready to be jammed...

watch this space...

osie

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