Hello All.
Six years ago we planted elderberry and hazelnut shrubs too close together. They are now badly crowding each other out and we need to move something. In the photo, which I hope I attached properly, the order is hazelnut, elderberry, hazelnut, elderberry. They are so crowded you kind of see nothing but the blooming elderberriesā¦
This is our first hazelnut crop.
The elderberries have produced beautifully since year two. They are varieties that will fruit on first-year wood and can be pruned to the ground. Because of this, I thought that moving the elderberry shrubs may make more sense, but I just don't know.
Advice please, on what, how and when to do relocation?
Also - pruning hazelnuts... can we? They are getting very large (8-9 feet tall, with loads of catkins at the tops of the branches; so would pruning this year lose us next year's crop...?)
We are in Mid-Michigan, zone 5A. Both planting sites are full sun. Where they all are now was richly ammended prior to planting. The new site tends toward clay.
Thanks for your help.
