My elderberry bush... or what was.

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  1. mart

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    Wonder if they would grow here ? What are elderberries like ?
     
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    I don't know if they grow there or not, Mart. They actually are very bland by themselves. I juice them and make jelly out of them. I freeze them whole (after I clean them from the stems) and make pie with them in the winter. With the tiny seeds they have you get a crunch between your teeth, but they don't stick in your teeth like raspberry seeds do. I would say the seeds are smaller than strawberry seeds. When I was a kid while out horseback riding I would snag the umbellifer of ripe fruit and use it to quench my thirst. They weren't really sweet so they didn't leave you sticky, either.
     

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