Interesting plant features/behaviours - eg. mulberry

[Diane56Victor]

Mulberry......
Take care where those are planted as the roots are very vigorous!
I recall a friend planting a seedling tree then finding out it wasn't the best tree for a suburban block.
They dug out the tree after only a few months in their garden and thought that was the end of the issue.
For months after the plant was removed roots that were missed in the first removal kept pushing new growths even after repeated removals. This went on for at least a year. Even using a poison required several applications.
On the plus side I read somewhere that the roots of a quick growing/persistent grower could be blended into a solution that can be used to water other plants.
This blended concoction could possibly contain the vigour of the original plant.
Don't know if it does work but would like to see a study of some kind, even a home grown study.

[Dollythehun]

Originally Posted by Diane56Victor

Mulberry......
Take care where those are planted as the roots are very vigorous!
I recall a friend planting a seedling tree then finding out it wasn't the best tree for a suburban block.
They dug out the tree after only a few months in their garden and thought that was the end of the issue.
For months after the plant was removed roots that were missed in the first removal kept pushing new growths even after repeated removals. This went on for at least a year. Even using a poison required several applications.
On the plus side I read somewhere that the roots of a quick growing/persistent grower could be blended into a solution that can be used to water other plants.
This blended concoction could possibly contain the vigour of the original plant.
Don't know if it does work but would like to see a study of some kind, even a home grown study.

Diane56 is right. This mulberry is a weed! They are messy, smelly, invasive, rodent attracting, weeds! And we spent the whole evening in the dark and the morning cleaning up the branches the power company cut off at 10:00 pm to get our power on. It wasn't our tree that caused the problem but, they cut it anyway and left it on our West Bank. This picture shows you what they're good for. No offense intended but you guys are "wanna be farmers." This isn't fun folks, it's hard work!