How To Plant Elderberry Bushes

Older canes tend to lose vigor and production, so it is best to prune them out when dormant in late winter to early spring. Fertilizing elderberries in this manner will help to ensure a bumper crop of berries later in the year.Keep the area surrounding...

Early on, an iron deficiency manifests itself as a surface yellowing of the leaf with green veins. This begins as black or brown spots on the underside of the leaves. Prune out any dead or damaged branches and keep the soil damp.

So, you will just have to plant your own!Elderberries thrive in moist, fertile, well-drained soil. These berries are cooked down and used as syrups, jams, preserves, pies and even wine.

Cuttings can then be transplanted early the next spring.You can also take root cuttings the width of a pencil and 4-6 inches long in late winter when the plant is dormant. If you have an elderberry in the home garden, elderberry pruning is a necessity.

It grows up to 20 feet in height and also blooms earlier than the American elderberry.), which is similar to the American species but with one important difference. What types of elderberry plants are suited to your region?Recently, newer varieties of...

While they aren't a good choice for a small balcony or patio, you can grow elderberries as a potted plant if you have a large container and plenty of room. Take care not to damage the roots near the surface when mixing the fertilizer into the soil.

If the ketchup becomes too thick, thin it with a little extra vinegar and water. Now is the time for fall fruits, but it's also the time for planning scrumptious additions to the backyard berry patch.

They all sound good to me except for the catsup; that just doesn't seem right!Thanks to poppysue for the use of her picture of the berries. If the birds leave me any berries in the fall, I plan to make jelly, as elderberries are high in vitamin C.

I remember as a child, summertime was the time that we all packed up in the car and headed out to pick blackberries, or muscadines. (Editor's Note: This article was originally published on August 19, 2007.

They were much too thick, so the plants were thinned and the children took some of the seedlings home to plant in their gardens.These tough little plants are very easy to grow, so they were perfect for a child's first gardening experience.

Most modern homes do not come equipped with root cellars. The spring after my cutting celery made seeds, I had hundreds of volunteer celery seedlings around the compost pile. Cabbage family plants can safely be overwintered under cover in buckets Damp...

Lay them around existing crops to give them an advantage over the yet-to-emerge weeds beneath. To outwit weeds you'll need to wage a concerted campaign on several fronts, but it can be done, and without resorting to weedkillers.

I was lucky enough to nab one second-hand a few years ago, and it reduces mountains of branches and twigs to useful mulch every spring and autumn. Best of all, mulch can be made – for free! – in your own garden.

I have been gardening on a slope for more than 10 years, and every season I learn a little more about the hillside and its potential. Rebar stakes are the best way to reinforce wood-framed beds on a slope The frames or low walls used to stabilize a terraced...

By the time planting day comes, the soil will be as crumbly as chocolate cake. I like to collect some to replant or share at my community seed swap, but I also dump many seed-bearing poppies, calendulas, cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums and zinnias onto...

You can hasten ripening by removing the leaves from immediately around the fruits to minimize the amount of shade cast so that the fruits can remain sun-kissed and work on their tan.

Bacterial canker affects plums, cherries and other trees in the Prunus family. Make sure to choose upward-pointing shoots to counteract this. Once that's done, step back again and look over your tree.

Dried chilies are just as versatile as fresh chilies. Drying is an excellent way of preserving chilies. Arrange the chili peppers by spacing them out in a spiral formation – each chili should be offset about 30 to 60 degrees from the previous one.

If you can offer any further tips or advice, please go ahead and share them in the comments section below. If it's exceptionally dry, water again a few hours later to recharge all that valuable soil moisture.

If winters are severe or your soil is wet and heavy, then you're safer lifting all of the potatoes to pack them into boxes of coarse sand kept in a frost-free place. If time allows you to grow your spuds in the ground, pick a warm, sunny spot to ensure...

The fruits left to grow on will enjoy more airflow, sunlight and energy from the tree for even ripening. Apples and other trees are already full of young fruits, which will grow on to give a delicious crop towards the end of the growing season.

You can buy sticky traps, or make your own. Begin with a good, strong blast from the hose to knock the whitefly off your plants and onto the ground where they'll perish. Flowers will help to draw hoverflies and other greenhouse whitefly predators to your...

Check plants every couple of days and remove fruits and pods before they get too large or overripe. Keep on Picking to Keep Plants Producing The first rule with any fruit or pod-producing vegetable is to keep up with the picking.

Protect Your Crops As most growers of cabbages, broccoli or other brassicas will know, defense is the best form of attack. With no predators and no existing pests, this creates a gap in your garden's ecosystem for other pests to surge in unchecked, meaning...

Spring cabbages may be harvested young and loose as greens for repeated cutting, or left to grow on to form a tight head of leaves. Or sow into trays or pots then transfer the best seedlings into individual cells or pots to grow on.

Consider the look and feel of the bench, which will become a feature in its own right. I am no fan of the excessive glare from poorly placed spotlights or security lights. Avid gardeners are busy gardeners.

Unharvested daikons make a good winter cover crop because the big roots drill deep holes into the soil, which are then enriched by the rotting radishes. Violet ‘Sweet Baby' won an All America Selections Award in 2016 for its taste, vigor and uniformity.