So much has happened since I returned from the hiking trip with my husband’s family. Let’s make some elderflower syrup while I catch up up a bit. We’d only been gone a few days but grass had taken over everywhere. Sunflowers urgently needed to go into the ground, so I prepared beds for them. I also made a whole lot of elderflower syrup.

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 00:29 Caring for currant bushes 00:44 Preparing elderflowers 01:27 Resetting the fence 01:49 Rescuing sunflowers 03:27 Making syrup 04:07 Weeding sunflower bed 04:56 Harvesting onion flowers 05:19 Continuing sunflower bed 06:49 The potato beds 07:19 Making elderflower syrup 08:05 Harvesting more blossoms 08:59 Canning elderflower 09:36 Finishing the sunflowers