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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 15, 2010 9:12:38 GMT -5
Want to try some cuttings from mine? It would be good practice for me to learn how to do it.
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Post by mjc on Jul 15, 2010 10:32:30 GMT -5
I was going to offer some too...but shipping them to Canada...they probably won't ever get there. It's pretty much all live plant material, without a phytosanitary certificate, is destroyed at the border.
I can save seeds, in few weeks...
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 22, 2010 7:44:43 GMT -5
Well, I made a small trail batch of elderberry jelly yesterday. I had read that it had a taste not everyone liked. Count me in the 'don't care for' group. As I understand, it is given as a health tonic in some countries. Sounds reasonable, since it tastes like a horehound type cough drop. I have my plants close to the house, along the sidewalk to the garage. The chickens love the berries, my husband bitches about the purple poop they leave on the sidewalk. After tasting the jelly, I have decided to cut them back now, and move some suckers to an area just for the poultry. I think animal feed just may be the best use for them. I haven't tried the elderflower fritters though, so maybe I would like them. The variety I have is either York or Nova, don't remember which. They are pretty fussy to pick, but you can cut off the clump and take them inside to get the berries off inside.
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Post by ozarklady on Jul 22, 2010 11:27:14 GMT -5
I am sorry you don't like them Karen. We eat them right off the bush, to me they taste exactly like blueberries just smaller. And I love blueberries. I make pancake syrup out of alot of them, and use it like blueberry syrup. My husband says it doesn't taste like blueberry or blackberry, he likes it better.
All the kids around have purple fingers and mouths from raspberry season through blackberries, all the way to elderberry season.
I have honestly, never heard of someone not liking them, unless they don't care for blackberries and blueberries, then they often won't like elderberries either.
I just picked several buckets of them, and ended up with a full gallon of the berries, and this was only first picking.
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Post by mjc on Jul 22, 2010 11:46:36 GMT -5
After tasting the jelly, I have decided to cut them back now, and move some suckers to an area just for the poultry. I think animal feed just may be the best use for them. I haven't tried the elderflower fritters though, so maybe I would like them. The variety I have is either York or Nova, don't remember which. They are pretty fussy to pick, but you can cut off the clump and take them inside to get the berries off inside. Before you give up on them, totally, try making the jelly with 'cut juice'...50% apple juice works well. They can be very strong |
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Post by ozarklady on Jul 22, 2010 15:26:09 GMT -5
I don't know how interested you are in health benefits. But, if you google elderberries, you will be amazed. If you don't like the taste, you could, dehydrate them, and then put them into gel caps as a supplement for cold seasons, as well as, general good health, and that way you can't taste them at all.
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