What happened to Harry Belafonte!? Ok,I'm old he sang it, I think in the 50's, we had all his albums when a kidThe mullberries that I harvested were from a younger tree and were easy to pick because the tree was sitting next to a hugh pile of rocks. Rocks dug up to prepare the space for a garden. But if your tree is hanging over the sidewalk i can imagine the mess. Tere are many trees that drop fruit that gets crushed. In the historic section of Philiadelphia many Ginko Trees were planted along the narrow streets. Japanese plants were very popular in the mid to late 1800s and we see them here with a vine that bears tons of white blossoms that the bees love. Anyway the fruit that the Ginko bears stinks like upchuck when squashed even though the tree is very pretty. "The Lemon flower is pretty but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat." from Peter Paul and Mary songI had a fruiting mulberry tree in my yard when I lived in Nebraska. THere was one winter we went over a month without the temperature going over freezing, and most of that time had highs in the lower twenties. Sure didn't harm that tree any....although I had never seen a mulberry bear fruit, and when I came home one day and found that SOMEONE had scattered and mashed purple berries all over my sidewalk I was LIVID. And then I realized.....thank goodness I didn't confront any of hte neighborhood kids!
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