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  • From: Peter Chrisbacher <pxbacher.ls@comcast.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] elderberries under black-walnuts
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:47:57 -0400

Tanis, Stephen and others -

Thanks for the elderberry follow-up! I'm the one who originally posed the question a while back.

My three elderberries went in this spring, all beneath a large black walnut in our side yard. They haven't seemed to have had any difficulties so far, and I saw and cut quite a few yellow roots while planting them. I don't expect them to thrive, as they're really not getting enough sun where they are, though I'm keeping competing weeds down with leaf mulch, so that should give them a little boost.

Whem I put them in, I pruned them back pretty well, and for fun, stuck some of the cuttings in pots - they're also doing well! I'll plant them in a low spot in a corn field near my bee hives and see how they compete with multiflora rose ;-)

Pete Chrisbacher
SE PA - Zone 6B




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