I reached the point of Stacey saying “ I think this is enough” on the elderberries. I’ve brought in several gallons that she’s sat and shelled off the stems. We’ve got frozen elderberries, dried elderberries and canned elderberry juice all for making medicinal syrup later. She made one batch of the syrup and it’s good. You make the syrup in smaller batches as it only keeps a year. Does anyone know if we have several different kinds of elderberries in Kentucky. I’ve picked two or three different looking strains. Some have purple stems and some green. The green steamed ones have the biggest, juiciest berries.
I don’t have no idea if there different kinds but I do know what your talking about.
Colt
They look like them. Yes those are elderberries. Bush should have many clusters. Some will still be green, some are gone, birds eat them. Only thing I know that looks close is Devil’s Walking Stick( berries) but they’re on a tall straight bush with heavy thorns on it. I break off the clusters and put in Kroger bags. She sits and strips berries off at home. She’s probably got 3or 4 gallons of juice canned.
Can’t use the green ones or stems. Pick berries off pretty clean and throw out any green.
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Yes there are many clusters. These popped up by my garden in a drainage ditch a couple years ago. Didn’t know what they were until I saw your post. Got a sweet taste. May see what kind of jelly they make.
It’s pretty good jelly some years around hear there not as sweet as other years.
Colt
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Can’t eat them raw. They make good jelly. I find them here along ditches, railroads, soft and loamy soils. There’s lots of info on them on the internet. Stacey is making a medicinal type syrup but first froze or dried the berries or went ahead and cooked down the juice and canned for later.
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