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Blueberry vs Elderberry

Both are Berry. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.

Blueberry Elderberry

Measure Blueberry Elderberry
Season Perennial Perennial
Sowing window Jan–Feb Jan–Feb
Days to harvest 3–4 yr 2–3 yr
Spacing 300 × 120 cm 300 × 180 cm
Soil pH 4.0–5.5 5.5–7.5
Water 800–1100 700–1000
Temperature °C 5–25 5–26
Seed rate Nursery Cuttings
Yield 6–10 t 8–14 t
Watch for Mummy berry, fruit fly Aphid, borer

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Everything in the same group, on the figures that decide what to plant.

Crop Sow Days pH Temp °C Yield
Raspberry Jan–Feb 2 yr 5.5–6.5 10–24 6–10 t
Blackberry Jan–Feb 2 yr 5.5–7.0 10–26 8–14 t
Gooseberry Jan–Feb 2–3 yr 5.5–7.0 5–24 6–10 t
Blackcurrant Jan–Feb 2–3 yr 6.0–6.8 5–24 5–9 t
Redcurrant Jan–Feb 2–3 yr 6.0–7.0 5–24 5–8 t
Elderberry Jan–Feb 2–3 yr 5.5–7.5 5–26 8–14 t
Boysenberry Jan–Feb 2 yr 5.5–7.0 10–26 8–12 t
Loganberry Jan–Feb 2 yr 5.5–7.0 10–26 7–11 t
Blueberry Jan–Feb 3–4 yr 4.0–5.5 5–25 6–10 t
Cranberry Apr–May 3–4 yr 4.0–5.5 5–22 15–25 t
Cape Gooseberry Jun–Jul 150–180 5.5–7.5 13–28 12–20 t

All 538 crops, with every column → The sowing year →