In fact the interesting elderberries for picking are rare.Did67 wrote:At home, no elderberry harvest: birds are too good gatherers! Impossible to compete with them ...
I find them at the bottom of the valley, not very deep water. Preferably young enough and sunny enough to have coarse grained clusters almost all ripened at the same time. The time window is quite short before the grains dry out or fall to the ground.
The tree in the photo, isolated in the plain, where I harvested 8 kg of bunches to make 4 kg of juice, was however old, trunk at least 30 cm in diameter.
Looking at it more closely, the branches must have been pruned 2 years before, hence its vigor I guess ...