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self-care gardens?
"Fran Higham" wrote in message ...
"MDHJWH" wrote in message Why is this a problem? (snip) Too busy? It only flowers at midnight on the new moon on the tird day of .....? A combination of both of these plus weather/planting conditions. As I said, my elder is in a dry spot which also happens to be in the middle of a built up bed of rather scratchy bushes. The flowers are plentiful but they do not ever seem to be uniformly in good condition when I get to them. whether this is due to dryness or because of my timing, I've never been able to determine. According to the bods I purchased my new place from elderberries are most prolific in colder climes. they should be kept moist in the several months leading up to flowering and fed lots of seawead as fertilizer.The later sounds odd to me as I can't imagine inland Europeans fertilizing with seaweed for all those centuries they have been making elderberry wine. Still it wouldn't do any harm. The lack of uniform condition ,I'm told, can be overcome with freezing the flowers until you have enough to make wine. A wee bit high tec for permacultural correctness maybe ;~} Ayn Marx |
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