Elderberries!

[SHOZ]

I have them and let grow from wild. I just cut one down that I already cut down this spring. I'll let it come back again until it gets obnoxious. It's in a prime spot, full sun and good moisture and gets huge. The ones in the shade are just for looks as they won't hardly bloom. But they do trap silt when the river rises too far.

 

[mr_boring]

If you know, you know.

 

[SHOZ]

Here's the only fruiting one I had this year. It's getting cleaned out.

 

[Pablo]

Here's the only fruiting one I had this year. It's getting cleaned out.

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Nice. My 2.6 year old grandson has been eating every berry he can reach. I think they give him the squirts but he keeps eating all my elderberries!

 

[SHOZ]

Nice. My 2.6 year old grandson has been eating every berry he can reach. I think they give him the squirts but he keeps eating all my elderberries!

Purple fingers?

 

[Rmay635703]

I always thought elderberries were too much work since they actually do need to be cooked to be fully edible

 

[Pablo]

I always thought elderberries were too much work since they actually do need to be cooked to be fully edible

They are easy to pick and process, but yes slow cooking down to syrup is not quick!

 

[vavavroom]

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

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Elderberry syrup, wine and schnapps!

I swear I wasn't lying under the couch with a bottle of elderberry schnapps when I typed that.

 

[Pablo]

Schnapps comes in fruit flavors?

 

[vavavroom]

Schnapps comes in fruit flavors?

Peach schnapps! Schnapps, liqueur, cordial, you name it.

 

[SHOZ]

I eat them raw but not many. Like my wild cherries and raspberries it's my morning walk snack.

 

[vavavroom]

I eat them raw but not many. Like my wild cherries and raspberries it's my morning walk snack.

Most people will get nauseated by raw elderberries. They contain a cyanogenic glycoside that gets destroyed by heat. I mean, most people can probably eat a few raw elderberries without ill effects, and a handful not so much.

When we were kids my brother ate mountain-ash berries on a dare and soon after regretted not wearing his brown pants that day.

"But the birds eat them!"
"You're not a bird, you dummy!"

 

[Pablo]

Well the diaper duty is not mine thank goodness

In all seriousness we try to keep him away from the elderberry bushes

 

[SHOZ]

Well the diaper duty is not mine thank goodness

In all seriousness we try to keep him away from the elderberry bushes

Just keeps you regular....

 

[SHOZ]

Most people will get nauseated by raw elderberries. They contain a cyanogenic glycoside that gets destroyed by heat. I mean, most people can probably eat a few raw elderberries without ill effects, and a handful not so much.

When we were kids my brother ate mountain-ash berries on a dare and soon after regretted not wearing his brown pants that day.

"But the birds eat them!"
"You're not a bird, you dummy!"

You should see what the saskatoons do! They are delicious, taste and sized like a blueberry and are like and apple. but I only get abut three days before the birds find them.