Wow Jon your mulberries are getting ripe already ?
What a Paradise !

Okay, after reading all the wonderful recommendations I bit the bullet (not you Pete) and bought 3 kinds. The first was a common red then I went to Burnt Ridge online and got Noire de Spain and Silk Hope. The silk hope is supposed to be like the Illinois everbearing but sweeter and a heavier bearer.

Hopefully I will be sucessful keeping these to an ideal size in a container but if not, they get plunked in the ground to fend for themselves.

If you have the space and water, all trees belong into the ground. Fanick in San Antonio had some nice size Pakistani Mulberry the other day . But they need an area as large as a pecan tree probably when mature.

In my nemotode infested compost swallowing dirt not much survives.

Try some Jujube trees. You will love them. They'll survive anything and no spraying.
Here's how they look today.
 

What do Jujubes taste like?

The right fresh variety such as Sugarcane , Honey Jar or GA 866 has a very high sugar content not to mention 10 to 20 times the amount of vitamin C found in any citrus.
It is hard to describe the taste, But it would be close to the texture of a crunchy apple with a taste of apple/coconut flavor.
See this:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/jujube-4903437?highlight=jujube&pid=1281902841#post1281902841

(I have not tasted the GA 866 nor the Honey Jar yet. The sugarcane was excellent for fresh eating. The other two get great reviews for fresh eating also). I just added the other two to my collection this year.

They say that they send thorny root suckers 50 feet away from the tree searching for water. It did not stop me from planting them in my yard. I love the fruit.

Jujubes like dry weather and about one gallon of water per day during the growing season.

The Tigertooth variety is OK for humid areas, but last year it was not as sweet and crispy for fresh eating as the first two mentioned above. It ripens later than the Sugarcane.

Mulberry Syrup

Mixed with ice water this fruit concentrate makes a refreshing summer drink. Alone it is a good ice cream sauce. Lebanese housewives keep bottles of mulberry syrup on their shelves to serve diluted as a drink to visitors on hot summer afternoons.

Select fully ripe fresh black mulberries and mix a few red berries with them. Put the berries in a muslin bag and press the juice from them into an earthenware or enamelware pan. (Wear rubber gloves as the juice stains the hands.) Measure the juice. For every cup of juice add two cups of sugar. Boil over a high fire until somewhat thickened. Juice should be cooked in a glass or enamelware saucepan to avoid discoloration ot the syrup. Stir with a wooden spoon only. Bottle when tepid and seal when thoroughly cold.

Use a tablespoon of syrup per glass of ice water when preparing the beverage. Increase according to taste. Open bottles of syrup should be stored in the refrigerator.

http://www.habeeb.com/Lebanese-food/Lebanese-recipes.16.html

Anyone have a 1 gallon size Jujube for sale?

I'll give them a call and see what they have. Thank you so much for the info!

isn't the jujube same as chinese date? if so, check out local oriental grocery. sometimes they will have small tree of chinese date and persimmons.