Despite our best efforts and calculations, we didn’t quite have enough cuttings to completely fill the area we’d fenced off our first year. And dead space is untapped potential, so we made sure to fill in the two rows we got shorted on.

We’d definitely worked out all the kinks in our methods, and the process ran like a well-oiled machine.

It was especially satisfying to see how much the elderberry plants grow in one years’ time with the new cuttings side-by-side with the plants we got in the ground last year. Only two years old, and one behemoth of a plant shot up over ten feet tall! That’s impressive.