3 Mulberry TIMING: summer (berries, foliage, branches)

Mulberries are a great choice: • they have exceptionally sweet wood – stock love it; • cut and feed the leaves and young branches – stock will eat the lot; • bird love the berries, and you can harvest them for a pie; • they grow into attractive shade trees; • they have very deep roots for soil stabilisation.

Dress children in old clothes when they go to raid the berries – stains are difficult to remove.