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
Re: [NAFEX] elderberries under black-walnuts,
Peter Chrisbacher, 07/28/2006