mulberries!

(This is from Monday night. For some reason, I couldn't get any pictures to upload then.)

Two years ago I planted this tiny mulberry tree, bravely sporting two mulberries and about 5 leaves. That was in the spring of 2008. In the meantime, it grew & grew but I almost forgot that someday it would have fruit until I was mowing the lawn a few weeks ago and noticed hundreds of green fuzzy things that looked like the beginnings of berries. As I was on my way into the house last night after work I thought the I should check up on the. Good thing I did as a good number of them were already ripe and some had already started to fall onto the ground!

I think I must have eaten 100 or so just standing there last night. I forgot how so very good they are. If you've never had one, they are a little similar to blackberries when they are sweet but with a slightly different tang. I cannot believe a tree this size has so many berries though. They cover the tree from top to bottom (even down inches from the ground) and luckily the birds don't seem to have found them as of yet. I'm not sure what I'll do when this tree reaches full size but in the meantime, I'm hoping I will have enough to at least make a pie. Yummy, yummy.