I live in southwestern Wisconsin.
On our 151 acres last year we had mulberrys all over, good for pies and 
making die stuff out of.  Good for smoking meat too.
This spring I thought they a little slow......  they are ALL dead? A few 
hundred of them, just gone.  No signs of leaf drop or any out of the 
ordinary behavior last fall.  Just dead now......

Any ideas?  Nematodes, root knot...... We've looked at all the suspects 
that Duck Duck Go comes up with.   I have a note off the the Forest 
Products Lab.....just up the road a bit.  No reply yet.

God bless,
Mike Rock

We have 20 or so on our property. I DID notice that none fruited this year. I
assumed weather (some late freeze or something), but I did NOT check to see if
they are all dead.

Matthew Groves
Springfield, MO

Well, good news.  Last week our 'dead' mulberry trees started to leaf 
out, just started.  Normally the ground would be covered with fallen 
berries.....  I don't know what happened either......we had some late 
killing frosts, just now getting the garden in.
Never been this late in sixty years.

I am very glad that the mulberry trees didn't die off. Any major die
off is a bad thing.

	I have a soft spot in my heart for mulberries. My closest friend when
I was about 10 had an enormous veteran mulberry in his yard. At about
six feet up, it spread out into a cluster of trunks. We built the
obligatory tree fort and spent hours climbing it, and of course we ate
every berry we could reach. Good times.

	I have heard that mulberry is good for turning.

	Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA

	-----------------------------------------From: "Mike Rock" 
To: "Matthew Groves", "oldtools@s..."
Cc: 
Sent: Monday June 8 2020 12:00:42AM
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Mulberry die off

Well, good news. Last week our 'dead' mulberry trees started to leaf 
 out, just started. Normally the ground would be covered with fallen 
 berries..... I don't know what happened either......we had some late 
 killing frosts, just now getting the garden in.
 Never been this late in sixty years.

 On 5/27/2020 4:19 PM, Matthew Groves wrote:
 > We have 20 or so on our property. I DID notice that none fruited
this 
 > year. I assumed weather (some late freeze or something), but I did
NOT 
 > check to see if they are all dead.
 >
 > Matthew Groves
 > Springfield, MO
 >
 >> On May 27, 2020, at 3:59 PM, Mike Rock > > wrote:
 >>
 >> Any ideas? Nematodes, root knot
 >

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