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Gardening

NeoGreen

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Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Wed May 9, 2018, 08:08 AM

May 2018

...I would encourage you to collect cuttings from +3-year cane next January and see if you can propagate additional plants.

I found it amazingly easy to get them started using the following technique:

https://www.mommypotamus.com/growing-elderberry/

Good luck!

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Elderberry Experiment: Update #7 [View all] NeoGreen May 2018 OP

That looks like a fulltime job to keep your big garden going. procon May 2018 #1

Eventually... NeoGreen May 2018 #3

I'd never get any farther than pies, but with all those possibilities you'll be very busy. nt procon May 2018 #5

Thank you NeoGreen Ohiogal May 2018 #2

Thanks... NeoGreen May 2018 #4

As a kid in western PA in the 1950's .. left-of-center2012 May 2018 #6

Same - grew up in SW PA - Elderberry bushes quite common packman May 2018 #7

Did they stomp it with their feet? left-of-center2012 May 2018 #8

GOD AWMIGHTY - Why did you make me think of that? packman May 2018 #9