That’s wild, good job removing it! Who knew there were railroad ties down there lol.
Even in my forested plot I have to have a “lawn” area around the house. It’s not now a suburban lawn of grasses, but mosses, and whatever short green plant that grows, and doesn’t have thorns. Currently the road front is filled with toad Lily and moss. The first five feet from the base of the house is stones. We do have to keep it mowed.
This isn’t to conform to anything but good fire prevention. It’s not easy to keep the leaves and sticks cleaned and carted away from the perimeter of “lawn” but dry leaves are tinder and dry sticks are kindling.
I knew they were around. The tracks used to run along the adjacent road, and there are still the big concrete stands for the fuel tanks and transfer pump. There was also a brick factory on this property. This was all long before I was born.
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Do you know anyone with a wood stove? I’ve found mulberry to make excellent firewood. It tends to be sparky though, in my experience.
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I do, but mulberry trees aren’t much of a problem here in india.
(insert dramatic pause here)…
Yet.
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Given the ongoing thread about wild edibles, I have to say this.
When I lived in the Pacific Northwest, there was a native berry bonanza: Salmonberry, Thimbleberry, Pacific Blackberry, Red Huckleberry, Evergreen Huckleberry, Alaska and Thinleaf Blueberries, Wild Strawberry, Salal.
Then I came to North Carolina. Interpretive signs along the greenway say that the Southeastern US is a global biodiversity hotspot. It shows heatmaps of North America for the number of bird species, tree species, reptile species, and I forget what else. And yet I hardly find any berries here. We have native blueberries and blackberries, but I don’t find them often enough or abundantly enough for good foraging. Muscadines? Aside from the problematic bitter seeds, those have an even bigger drawback – that I usually find only empty skins after the birds have gotten to them. But right now, the white mulberries are in season, and I go out with my containers to gather them both for fresh use and to freeze. How could I hate the one berry bonanza we have?
They have berries that you can eat, why do you hate the tree so much? Do the berries taste bad or something because I never ate a mulberry
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They are invasive species. Big, hard-to-kill, dangerous to local wildlife ones.
Invasive, crowding out native mulberries with equally good or better berries.
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I was thinking the lawn is more invasive than the mulberry. :/ I know many people have to comply, but what a waste of potential native plant habitat. JMO. I’m sure the neighbors are very pleased.
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Working on adding natives to the yard.