In article , Mike Lyle
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Janet Tweedy wrote in message
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In article , Mike Lyle
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Or a self-fertile plum or a damson (you'd
need to change the soil a bit after the fowering cherry, of course).[...]

Grown a mulberry from seed, now chopped to five foot and allowed to grow
it's six foot of branches every year.
Would the damson or plum be a bit messy? Would it affect the drains?

You mean you wouldn't pick them? Gosh! But, no, they wouldn't be as
messy as mulberries. If you leave them on the ground you'll have a
plague of wasps, though.


No wasps just butterflies getting drunk on the rotting fruit that
dripped into the water barrels. Told the tale of my mulberry often on
this group so won't bore anyone again suffice to say I would NEVER grow
a mulberry again and it would certainly go for the drains and heave up
the foundations on my house!


I don't think plum trees are much of problem
with spreading roots; but I wouldn't plant any tree on top of a drain.

Mike.


Well it looks like someone did about 45 years ago or maybe longer
because the wild cherry tree was here and all of 35 or 40 foot when we
moved in and it has never rooted into the drains up till now. Presumably
the drains were put in after the roots had spread out so that only
anchor roots were in the vicinity and the feeder roots were actually
further away?

janet

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