When and How to Prune Mulberry Trees: Don't Miss the Right Time
The mulberry tree, which some call the mulberry tree, provides the grower with delicious berries that can be used as a filling for pies, a base for jams or preserves, and various drinks.
If you want the mulberry tree to please you with its harvest year after year, do not forget to prune it, advises the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
The procedure should be undertaken during partial or complete dormancy of the culture.
Thus, the optimal time for pruning is early spring before the sap begins to flow.
Most often, rejuvenating and formative pruning is carried out at the end of April to the beginning of May, before the buds open.
Sanitary pruning is carried out in the fall, after the leaves have fallen. The main thing is to do this before the air temperature drops below -10 degrees.
Each type of mulberry has its own pruning characteristics. For example, weeping mulberry requires thinning pruning, shortening of branches and stems. Since this type needs a little time to recover, it is not afraid of even the most severe pruning.
If we are talking about a standard mulberry, we should do formative pruning of the crown, during which we need to form a lush cap of a spherical shape or a cascade of branches falling on a long stem, on which there are no branches.
