Breeding pairs.

[Peafowlssssssss]

Your climate is more desert-like? I wish I could take credit, but that's all mother nature your seeing. I was upset when we put these runs in, because we added fill ground this time and raised everything up, to improve drainage. I had another pen in a different area that I tore down due to poor drainage. There was such nice thick pasture grass and we had to completely cover it with soil, I was afraid the runs would remain barren. However we had a beautiful, cooler wetter summer last year and things grew like crazy. Everything except the bushes growing against the barn is new growth, those bushes are wild mulberry so they produce berries the Peas love to eat, we kept them and I will have to trim them each year to keep them from damaging the netting. Your birds will love the space in a 50x25. When it is raining and muddy here I do not let the older males with long trains go out in the pens, because I don't want their train feathers caked with mud. On those days I will let the yearlings out and open the doors in the runs so they can explore the whole 20x88 space, they love that and often get to chasing each other and jumping around.

Not just more its all desert LOL, we almost don't have any volunteer weeds here, when you buy land it will be just sand, except if someone already planted something before, everything we should plant it care of it and everything. There is a farm near us sell mulberry trees, i liked these mulberry trees and was going to plant some but got busy and forget about them, now if i want to plant them i need to protect them with fence so peas don't eat them until they become big, we didn't have much rain this year, and i think its one of the lowest years in rain rate, we only had 7 or 8 rainy days this winter!

 

[DylansMom]

Not just more its all desert LOL, we almost don't have any volunteer weeds here, when you buy land it will be just sand, except if someone already planted something before, everything we should plant it care of it and everything. There is a farm near us sell mulberry trees, i liked these mulberry trees and was going to plant some but got busy and forget about them, now if i want to plant them i need to protect them with fence so peas don't eat them until they become big, we didn't have much rain this year, and i think its one of the lowest years in rain rate, we only had 7 or 8 rainy days this winter!

I would try the mulberries if you get the chance. Around here they are very hardy, staying green during droughts and heat waves. They pop up everywhere because the wild birds love the berries, they eat them and spread them everywhere. My son loves eating them too. They will grow into trees if they are pruned when young, otherwise there are many trunks and they resemble a large bush. We have one beside the smaller barn that we are pruning into a tree. I believe I heard somewhere that the leaves are not really good for animals to eat, but my Peas really don't eat the leaves, just the berries.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I would try the mulberries if you get the chance. Around here they are very hardy, staying green during droughts and heat waves. They pop up everywhere because the wild birds love the berries, they eat them and spread them everywhere. My son loves eating them too. They will grow into trees if they are pruned when young, otherwise there are many trunks and they resemble a large bush. We have one beside the smaller barn that we are pruning into a tree. I believe I heard somewhere that the leaves are not really good for animals to eat, but my Peas really don't eat the leaves, just the berries.

I liked how green were they when i saw them, not many plants will keep their green color like these in our summer, maybe i could get some next week, they sold them big already, and the guy told me they will grow so fast, i think they were 1 meter height, and if they grow so fast like his big ones it will be great!

 

[DylansMom]

I liked how green were they when i saw them, not many plants will keep their green color like these in our summer, maybe i could get some next week, they sold them big already, and the guy told me they will grow so fast, i think they were 1 meter height, and if they grow so fast like his big ones it will be great!

Yes, they grow very fast here as well. Probably 2/3 of a meter bigger each year.

 

[Garden Peas]

Not just more its all desert LOL, we almost don't have any volunteer weeds[COLOR=333333] here, when you buy land it will be just sand, except if someone already planted something before, everything we should plant it care of it and everything. There is a farm near us sell [/COLOR]mulberry trees, i liked these mulberry trees and was going to plant some but got busy and forget about them, now if i want to plant them i need to protect them with fence so peas don't eat them until they become big, we didn't have much rain this year, and i think its one of the lowest years in rain rate, we only had 7 or 8 rainy days this winter!

Mulberries are well adapted to dry desert conditions if there is a fairly high water table. They will put down deep roots and can reach water and survive when many other trees cannot. Are you going to get white ones or black ones? See if you can get fruiting ones because all birds adore the berries. A lot of commercial mulberries here are sold as "fruitless" because homeowners hate the mess that comes with the berries and the birds. But the birds love the berries and so do all the kids in the neighborhood

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Mulberries are well adapted to dry desert conditions if there is a fairly high water table. They will put down deep roots and can reach water and survive when many other trees cannot. Are you going to get white ones or black ones? See if you can get fruiting ones because all birds adore the berries. A lot of commercial mulberries here are sold as "fruitless" because homeowners hate the mess that comes with the berries and the birds. But the birds love the berries and so do all the kids in the neighborhood

Well, i don't really know much about trees, but i remember i saw black mulberries in these trees, i used to have pictures of these trees but not anymore, i tried to google it but the pictures I see in google don't look like the ones I'm seeing here.

 

[DylansMom]

Well, i don't really know much about trees, but i remember i saw black mulberries in these trees, i used to have pictures of these trees but not anymore, i tried to google it but the pictures I see in google don't look like the ones I'm seeing here.

These look like the ones that grow here in PA, if not exact then very close. I believe I read there are 16 different varieties.

http://mulberrytrees.co.uk/gallery/

 

[Garden Peas]

There are (growing wild in the US)... black mulberries, white mulberries and white mulberries with black fruit

.... among others. There is also a widely grown "fruitless" variety. Some mulberry trees (and bushes) have a palmate leaf variant, like the ones shown in this photo from Wikipedia:



Given enough water, the trees can become enormous, with huge trunks and very large boughs. (They can also drop big boughs on unsuspecting cars

and uproot large fences and outbuildings, kinda a superman tree

They are pretty malleable... someone had planted two of the fruitless in the yard at my other house, as a landscape pair, and one of them was an enormous tree. Apparently the central leader had been damaged on the other, and when I moved in, it was a bush, more than 20 ft high (maybe 30) and at least as wide, if not more so. One summer not too long afterwards, I went out and started whacking on it. I cut out the original dead trunk, picked a replacement upright and cleared it head high so I could mow under it, and chopped down/sawed off everything else. I can't remember how many trailer loads I took to the dump. But after that, it turned into a nice tree and developed another good strong trunk.

But the kids love the wild ones, that drop berries everywhere in the spring and have wonderful old trunks for climbing. I think the wild ones in the back are technically white ones with dark fruit but I'd have to go down and look in the spring when there's leaves.

Awhile back, I had a house where someone had planted a pair of weeping mulberries. I couldn't figure out why one of them had gone wild and was growing upwards like crazy until I started pruning it and discovered it had branched out from the trunk around the top graft and was growing up through the weeping branches. Once I cut all of that out, it went back to being a nice weeping mulberry. Mine were only 8 or 10 feet tall, but I have seen weeping mulberries that were 20 to 30 feet high... what a grafting experiment that must have been!

I like mulberries a lot, but I recommend good strong pruning shears and a sharp saw blade, because they grow like crazy, and not always where you want them to!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Well, i don't really know much about planting and caring for these trees, but i'm not sure if one of these photos looks like the ones i saw in person? They were looking a bit different than these.

 

[Garden Peas]

Well, i don't really know much about planting and caring for these trees, but i'm not sure if one of these photos looks like the ones i saw in person? They were looking a bit different than these.

Maybe had the whole (not mitten-like) leaves? I'm really confident that if they are being sold as mulberries, it is some variety of these trees we are talking about. Really, all you need to do is make sure they get enough water and are planted far enough away from walks and buildings so they don't destroy them. If you want a certain shape like an upright tree you can walk underneath, you can prune off the branches you don't like. They are very hardy and strong trees even in the desert, as long as the roots can get water