Raiding the neighbours

One of our neighbours has a big mulberry tree that looms over our fence in the backyard. It is currently full of berries and guess who love helping themselves to the spoils?

The great thing about mulberries is the stain they leave on your face, hands and clothes when you eat them. It is the type of stain that leaves no one wondering what you've been up to. When you're a kid you can't just pinch and sneakily eat a mulberry. The evidence is there for all to see.


The lower branches of the tree get raided almost daily and when there are no ripe mulberries left Henry and Milly need a boost up on the roof of the shed to get more. Poor Buster can't reach any of the branches and there is no way we are letting him on the shed roof, so he has to rely on Henry and Milly to drip feed him some berries. Naturally he gets a bit frustrated with this, because there is nothing he'd like better than to help himself to the berries and have an adventure on the roof of the shed.



We've had so many berries from the tree. We've mixed them in ice cream, added them to a fruit salad, and I'm thinking of putting them in my next rhubarb crumble because I've more rhubarb to harvest.

One thing is for sure. While the picking is good, the kids will be picking.