Elder cuttings.
Re: Elder cuttings.
As a side topic, I just stick cuttings in the soil and leave them. Eventually some of them will take and others won't so stick plenty in. Mind you elderberry will grow and grow and once you get it you won't get rid of it, lol.
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Re: Elder cuttings.
No need to do cuttings here elderberries are everywhere in the hedgerows just ripe for the picking
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Re: Elder cuttings.
We used to have a lot of elder growing in and around my hometown.
In recent years the town council has been ''cleaning up'' a lot.
I want to secure a source of elderberry's for future wines...
Last night I cleaned out a bottle of my home-brewed elderberry port with some friends,
and it was simply fabulous.
@ Big Al
That seems to work pretty good so far,the cutting is doing fine.
I do water it daily,since it still doesn't have a proper root system.
In recent years the town council has been ''cleaning up'' a lot.

I want to secure a source of elderberry's for future wines...
Last night I cleaned out a bottle of my home-brewed elderberry port with some friends,
and it was simply fabulous.

@ Big Al
That seems to work pretty good so far,the cutting is doing fine.
I do water it daily,since it still doesn't have a proper root system.
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Re: Elder cuttings.
Quite a few people seem to take the flowers AND the berries. I love the flowers but have never been too keen on the berries. I might throw a few into a blackberry and apple crumble but on their own I don't find them particularly pleasant. Am I missing something?
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Re: Elder cuttings.
No-one likes a show offpelmetman wrote:No need to do cuttings here elderberries are everywhere in the hedgerows just ripe for the picking![]()
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Re: Elder cuttings.
Maybe.JeremyinCzechRep wrote:Quite a few people seem to take the flowers AND the berries. I love the flowers but have never been too keen on the berries. I might throw a few into a blackberry and apple crumble but on their own I don't find them particularly pleasant. Am I missing something?
Elderberry port.
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Re: Elder cuttings.
... and, as you've already mentioned blackberries, elderberry and blackberry wine. Half and half (a couple of pounds of each) gives you a wine to be proud of. Not that it's ever lasted long enough to develop pride
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Re: Elder cuttings.
...I know,my stock is depleting rapidly .
''I'm riding a pig and trashing things,I dunno what else I'm supposed to do here.''
(My wife, while playing Lego pirates of the carribean.)
''If you open your mind too far your brain will fall out''
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''If you open your mind too far your brain will fall out''