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Elderberry planting

grown by corvi in Cliffside Orchard · salt spring island

All of corvi's plantings

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 3 years ago 2023-04-12

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

4 advanced plants

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Advanced plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in salt spring island New

Daily high and low
Too hot and too cold for elderberry so farFrom Apr 12 to Aug 25, 49 of 136 days had a high inside the best range of 15–20°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -1°C on 2 days. The highs were below the best range on 39 days and above the best range on 48 days. The weather was too hot on 13 days (highs above 25°C) and too cold on 20 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 5–25°Grows best 15–20°
Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on August 25, 2023, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
110 mm
Hottest day
28.9°C
Coldest night
-1.8°C
Soil temperature
13.3°C
Days in its best range
49 of 136
Days
136

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

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  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this elderberry planting

11 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.8 °C.

This elderberry planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-1.8 °C
3.8 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
40 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 21 May
Usual last frost
8 May
planted 26 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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Crop

Photo of elderberry

Elderberry

Sambucus nigra

  • 3 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun