Kitchen Garden: Here we go around the mulberry bush

By Susan Parsons
Updated November 28 2020 - 11:46am, first published 11:00am
Sprig of white mulberry with fruit from a tree in Deakin. Picture: Susan Parsons
Sprig of white mulberry with fruit from a tree in Deakin. Picture: Susan Parsons

A young woman, Daria Tomczak, shares a place with two flatmates in Narrabundah. They each have a car and juggle parking spots. One vehicle has to be parked in the street. In descriptive language and laughing, Daria explained to me that about 9pm bats descend on the mulberry street trees and squeal a lot. They eat the unripe fruit of the white mulberry and the cars are covered each morning in bat poo, leaves and fallen fruit. She said, "the mess under the trees looks like after a night party. The stuff on the car is very sticky and, if left too long, you have to use extra elbow grease to remove it."

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