HOW TO PRUNE AMERICAN ELDERBERRY BUSHES 

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Yes. It is okay to prune on late February. Thank you for stopping by.

We have not had any sawfly problems on our elderberry bushes. Here is a helpful article on 13 Natural ways to get rid of sawfly larvae. drecampbell.com/natural-ways-get-rid-sawflies.

We made jam out of these 2 years ago but we will make a separate video of it probably next year. Elderberry season is over now. We will show you the update of the bushes next time when we prune it again. Thanks for stopping by.

Hi Troy, Elderberry is a semi-deciduous bush. It will take about three to four years before you would need loppers to trim the older canes. If they would get too big for loppers (loppers can cut of to two inch diameter limbs, you could use a pruning saw or sawsall with a pruning blade. If you are establishing the new plant this year, do not trim it until it's second full year. After that, you can prune it every later winter/early spring. Store the cuttings in a ziplock freezer bag with a damp napkin in the fridge until the ground has warmed up and you are ready to stick them in the ground. Do not prune elderberries any time other than later winter/early spring, when they are still dormant.

Thank you for your kind words. We used bird scare tape/ribbon on our elderberry bushes like this one👇 Kugge Bird Flash Tape (1in,360ft), Double Side Reflective Ribbon, Protect Your House, Garden, Orchard a.co/d/je8TttX

Lemony Lace Elderberry (Sambucus Racemosa) are an ornamental bush with red berries. These berries should NEVER be eaten.

If it is black elderberry then yes. They call it Sambucus Nigra. All Ederberry bushes/plants are part of the Nightshade family. NEVER eat green berries, leaves, stems or bark. Eating too many raw (black) elderberries may make you sick but processing them like canning, pies, jam, juice etc. is quite healthy and tasty.

Black yes. Red berries no

Late winter (now) is the best time to collect cuttings from your elderberry bushes, while they are dormant. Place the 8" to 10" cuttings in gallon zip-lock bags with a damp paper towel and put in the refrigerator until you are ready to start.

Deer don't really bother our elderberries so we don't put cages around them. Birds only get into them so we put scared tape on top of the bushes. It keeps the birds away.

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Yes they get into those. We are 30 mins away from Cedar Point

We are here in Willard. About 35 mins from Mansfield.

@@TheMillersWay we have 12 plants so far but this is our first year to plant them. How many do you have started?

About the same. We have more to plant next week if this weather cooperates from the cuttings we got. They have nice roots already and some has berries too.

Hi Tammy! If you planted American elderberry, you'll want to prune them in late winter to early spring while still dormant. If you planted European elderberries, you'll prune the same time as American elderberries but you will wait 2 years to prune.

@@TheMillersWay thank you.

American elderberrie has a 6 to 8 foot bush growth habit. European elderberry is more of a small tree and can grow to 20 feet tall. The bark is a bit more coarse on the European elderberry trunk and tends to grow as a single trunk.

If your elderberry "tree" is 20 foot high and has coarse, tree-like bark (which I'm sure it does), You should cut is back to the ground next march before it starts to grow again. The roots will send up lots of new shoots.

Maybe you need to start pruning them starting this Spring.