re: Anyone plant mulberry trees? Any particular cultivars?

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I used to find them wild and eat to my heart's content until I read a post saying they have little maggots in them. Which took a good percentage of my life's joy away.

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I've run into that twice. Once on the trees by the lagoon near my old house and again where I'm now living when a neighbor had a mulberry tree that hung over the front fence and sidewalk. He never picked them and eventually cut the tree down since they are quite the mess staining the sidewalk and, like you mentioned, the nasty blue bird crap everywhere.

I picked a quart or so one day and when I checked them out I saw little white worms crawling around them. They are really small and could be easily overlooked.

After finding that, I'd pick them and put them in cold water and change out the water several times to try to get rid of them.