I know that mulberry plants respond well – in terms of bearing fruits – to harsh pruning, but I usually can’t bring myself to be that drastic. In fact, about two weekends ago, I started pruning our mini-tree, but was distracted; and subsequent gardening sessions were focused elsewhere. So the plant was only partially pruned, and remained so until I saw these:

Clusters of mulberries forming along just one pruned branch!

Talk about inspiration to prune the rest of the plant immediately!

Which I did – today. Novice Gardener (from whom I got this variety of mulberry) has been talking about the way the plants in her garden are in super-production mode, and this is because she diligently hard-prunes the plants every month or so. I’ll just say “wow” and keep the cutters handy – and keep propagating new plants from the pruning sessions. So far, I’ve got a few new plants from these cuttings.

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