Hi I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to preserve mulberry leaves for use over the winter, I want to start using silk worms and don't want to use mulberry farms chow as it is a bit expensive. There must be a way to make chow of somesort for use during the winter since I can get a hold of a good amount of mulberry leaves.
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silk worm chow
jwatts
Jul 03, 2003 03:06 PM
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Sybella
Jul 07, 2003 02:45 AM
If you can find out, please let me know. It seems that silkworm chow recipes are a closely guarded secret! LOL!
From what I can gather, the leaves are ground up and powdered milk is added. I don't know what else.
Unless you need to grow a huge amount during the weekend, I'd just stick with the storebought kind from Mulberry farms. I've never had good luck with it anyway...It seems that I can't keep the temperature high enough for them for the winter and most don't make it. 
