Elderberry Experiment: Update #3 [View all]

Last edited Fri Apr 13, 2018, 11:56 AM - Edit history (2)

So, progress slowed since the last update.

In mid August the berries should have been ripening to a purple color but were still mostly green:




And some plants were still flowering:



I attribute this to planting late (~ 1st week of June).



Later in early September the berries started to turn:


And some made great progress:


But I started to see some losses due to predation (deer nibbling at what they could reach):




So, today I harvested ~65% of the berries (100% of what was obviously ripe).
Which netted not quiet 2.75 pounds on the vine:


After about 1.5 hours of one person gently stripping off the berries:


I got about 2.25 pounds of just berries:




Which are now evenly split into 2 quart sized zip-lock bags in the freezer.