MULBERRY, not enough for everyone.

A friend commented about balanced diet recently.  He said we were designed to withstand the worst situation on food we take. In the early days of human existence, he imagined that food wasn't very regular, men would go out hunting animals and collecting edible fruits and shoots on the way home.  People would eat later half of the day, probably only once a day.  Food would be varied according to what they managed to bring back home.  No standard daily menu.

Once men settle down, no more nomadic hunters,  there would be chickens, goats, cattle, fruit trees and vegetables around the homes. Then food became regular and of standard menu.

I was looking at my only mulberry tree grown in a pot. It has been with us for almost 10 years.  I wonder if glimpses of early days of human existence is coming up. One mulberry tree, potted to make it even worse,  cant be enough for everyone.

Wani and Arif came last month, and they had a bite at these mulberries.  I promised them mulberry jam next year. I need to grow more mulberry plants!

bangchik and kakdah

Putrajaya backyard garden

Mulberry, fast recovery.

It was a month ago that we pruned the mulberry plant heavy and low. 

Now the branches shoot up to about 3 feet with ripe berries. 

I call that "fast recovery".

Mulberry: the stems were pruned heavy and low a month ago

Mulberry, a real fast recovery.

________bangchik and kakdah________

seri kembangan

The old mulberry and the new pak choy.

Yes a new place and a new garden indeed, but at the moment contents are old plants brought here from Tanah Merah Kelantan. Somehow potted plants love the new setting, weather and shady environment created by two massive rain-tree....

The Old Mulberry

There is quite a history about mulberry. We first grew two potted mulberry plants in Putrajaya then moved  to Tanah Merah for a year,  and now in Johor.  It seems to grow well, sprouting flowers and berries but I notice a few bites at the leaves. It could be grasshoppers from the large field at the back of our house. It is alright, grasshoppers can take the leaves, we can take the berries.

Mulberry

Mulberry with bitten leaves

Mulberry 

The New Pak Choy

Pak Choy is one of the many veggies we would try here. Twenty five seedlings are coming to the fourth leaves. Next week, they will be transferred to bigger 5 inch diameter plastic pots. They will remain in pots til harvest. I don't think they can grow well outside with rains coming everyday..

Pak Choy seedlings

Pak Choy seedlings, 25 altogether.

Pak Choy seedlings.

There is steady progress on six rows of vegetable bed. Three completed and three more to go.  Eleven Roselle seedlings brought along from Tanah Merah are the first group of plants to be introduced into our vegetable plot, the rest will wait...  Our new garden is really a combination of old and new.

bangchik and kakdah.

Johor Malaysia.

Mulberry second fruiting season.

 

  

  

  

The plants were bought at one of the stalls during Putrajaya Flower Show, last year. We put them in two clay pots. The plants survived through the period when we were away for one and a half month last year. Now they are fruiting once again. The berries go through the various stages; green, red and black colour. They are quite tasty!  I am thinking of making mulberry jam, but I need to have more berries. And that ask for the plants to be propagated into more pots or on the ground. I heard, this plant can grow through cuttings.

Anybody growing this mulberry?

~bangchik 

Putrajaya, Malaysia