Don Curtis's Page

"Welcome, Tonya!!"

"   Tonya,   when my wife makes elderberry syrup, she places about a quart of de-stemmed elderberries in a sturdy bowl then presses, (there by crushes) them with a wooden mallet.  Next she adds sugar to the crushed elderberries…"

"help please can someone tell me how to get the juice from the berries do i put water and boil them my first time doing them HELP "

"Shannon,  Thank you for the comment on my berries.  I love the elderberry artistic touch on your page, such imagination!"

"Very Nice! "

"Thanks, Don, for the advice. Funny thing is it looks soooo much like the elderberry, the white flowers, the berries, etc.; it's just the pokey things on the trunk that appear to be different. In fact, on one site which identified it as the…"

"Leaves oppose each other on the stem, except for the single leaf on the end of the stem."

"The "not quite ripe" stage of my backyard elderberries."

"Michele, Please, do not eat any berry that you cannot positively identify.  On your internet, go to Google and search "Elderberry leaves', under the "images" category.  Make sure what you have has the right leaf…"

"I've got bushes that I think are called Devil's Walking Stick with horrible picky things on the bark of the tree. The berries look just like this though. Are they elderberries or something else?"