In Basket: January 2010

By The Herb Companion Staff
Published on November 12, 2009

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<strong>Dear Herb Companion,</strong>
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<p>We really appreciated the article “<a href=”http://www.motherearthliving.com/cooking-methods/elderberries-grow-cook-heal-with-elder.aspx”>Grow, Cook, Heal with Elder</a>” in the November 2009 issue. When my wife and I were first married and living in West Virginia, we would travel the roads in the fall, gathering elderberries for jelly. Last year (40 years later), we finally got around to planting our own bushes in New Jersey. The nursery where we ordered them had a “starter kit” with bushes of two different varieties (<em>Sambucus canadensis</em> ‘York’ and <em>S. canadensis</em> ‘Nova’), which they said was necessary for proper pollination. Page 40 of your article indicated that the best results would be obtained if the two plants were the same. Can you clarify this apparent contradiction?<br />
–Wayne Miller, Stanhope, New Jersey</p>
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