Berries · Perennial
Sea buckthorn
Elaeagnaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 200 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–8b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 23 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sun
- Soil (prefers)
- sandyAlso okay:loamy
- Drainage (prefers)
- very free-drainingAlso okay:normal
Seed & start
Perennial
Plant once, returns every year.
Stachi's tip
Sea buckthorn is the vitamin-C bomb and soil doctor (nitrogen fixer). But: needs male + female plants for berries. Salt-tolerant, lives 30+ years.
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
JFMAMJJASOND
Harvest
JFMAMJJASOND
Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Avoid these neighbours
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