
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.
The plant's year: sowing, transplanting, harvest
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Avoid these neighbours
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
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
- Bio-Gärtner – Sanddorn [Hippophae rhamnoides] (https://www.bio-gaertner.de/pflanzen/Sanddorn)
- BZfE – Sanddorn, die Zitrone des Nordens (https://www.bzfe.de/presse/pressemeldungen-archiv-2024-und-frueher/sanddorn-die-zitrone-des-nordens)
Where these figures come from
- Timing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Spacing
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Companion planting
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Crop rotation
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Yield
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
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 · Bio-Gärtner – Sanddorn [Hippophae rhamnoides] (https://www.bio-gaertner.de/pflanzen/Sanddorn) · BZfE – Sanddorn, die Zitrone des Nordens (https://www.bzfe.de/presse/pressemeldungen-archiv-2024-und-frueher/sanddorn-die-zitrone-des-nordens)
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