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Name: TIOTHY
Status: other
Age: 40s
Location: N/A
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Date: 1999-2001
Question:
I HAVE A MULBERRY TREE IN MY YARD, CAN YOU STOP IT FROM > PRODUCING FRUIT? VERY MESSY AND KIDS TRACK IT IN THE HOUSE, BUT I LOVE > THE 20' TREE.

Replies:
Guess you have 3 possibilities: either you would have to pick the fruit and/or flowers from the tree before they fall, or clean up off the ground, or cut it down.

Anthony Brach

While there are fruitless varieties of mulberrys, I do not believe there is any way to stop an existing tree from fruiting.

J. Elliott


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