Berries · Perennial
Elderberry
Adoxaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 200 cm
- USDA zones
- 4a–8b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 22 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:claysandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:heavy / waterlogged
Seed & start
Perennial
Plant once, returns every year.
Stachi's tip
Elderberry grows large (2-3 m) — better in a ground bed. Flowers for cordial, berries edible ONLY when cooked (raw mildly toxic). Pioneer shrub, grows anywhere.
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
JFMAMJJASOND
Harvest
JFMAMJJASOND
Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage