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| Hi I have just ordered, 3 goji plants bare rooted. from t/m £9.99 they are giving £5. 00 off any order at the moment ,so cost me £4.99 has any body else, grown this fruit it looks like a tomato,how big does it grow, it said 2nd year of fruiting is better than 1st, will have to wiat and see. ![]() |
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| Sorry never heard of them - sounds interesting. Perennial i take it from price and 2nd tear fruiting. Does it also taste like a tomato as well as look like one? It has a good name. Does it grow outdoors or green house? Whoops sorry didn't mean to as so much. ![]()
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| Hi, Denise it say,s easy to grow,drought tolerant & self pollinating plants are hardy down to -15c!, berries are sweet& taste eat anytime as healhy snack, add berries to juices, /smoothies, can be dried or brewed into refreshing tea , add to cereals . grows in full sun , well drained soil, yes it is perennial originally cuiltivated in tranquil valleys of the Himalayans about egg plum size ! |
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| Hi Murfe thank you for info sounds good. Might be some thing to add to back garden, not lottie for next year. haveing a bit of a face lift this year, I hope and dream plenty (face lift for garden not me)
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| Hmm. Just googled it. Comes from the Himalayas, frost tolerant to -15. Some company is selling the juice at £13 plus per litre. (Honestly!!) Get crushing Murfe 18! Your fortune awaits you. ![]()
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| That's why they are charging so much for the juice. It cures death if you believe the blurb! ![]()
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| Thinking where can we put them ? got 4 blueberry bushes 2 gouseberry bushes down the side of the house 3 apple trees in the frunt and a cherry treeround the back is 2 green houses one wating to be put up honest the housse is not tht big
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| I've got 6 bushes on order with T & M but I've been waiting nearly 6 weeks and still not received them. I have chased up but all they keep saying should be in the next 10 days! I have also bought rather a lot of goji seeds (about 450) and have started growing them, so far so good. I wasn't expecting them all to come up but I reckon around 400 have!! Slightly worried I am going run out of window ledges soon! By the time I receive bushes from T&M, I think I will have bushes nearly fully grown!!!! I am a total amateur to growing anything, any tips would be greatly appreciated! |
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| Hi Crispp007 Same as you for the bush order. Been waiting 5 or 5 weeks. called them and got told they would be here this week. 1 day left then its time to start making a few "demanding" phone calls. Where did you get the seed? Very poor service! Martin |
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| Thanks Murfe, this must be the unusual crop for the year! I thought I was forging out trying blueberries this year -definately been trumped!
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| Just received my plants last Friday, they seem to be a fair size and apparantly they are two years old so should get fruit off of them this summer(we'll see!). I got my seeds off of ebay. There is someone on ebay selling 2 year old goji plants for £3.00 each + £3.00 P&P (sounds very cheap to me even though T&M are selling 6 bareroot plants for £20.00). Interesting idea 1.2km of hedge... Just gotta find a field to put them in!! Given how much the dried goji fruit go for (£9.00 for 250grammes in tescos!), I'm very suprised how cheap the plants r? Am i missing something? |
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| Plants grow VERY easily from seed - at least in my experience this year. germination 100%. Given that the average bush has several hundred (thousand ?) seeds... I think I'll grow a hedge round the garden:-)) Last edited by Madasafish; 31-05-2007 at 11:25 PM. |
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| I have read that Goji seeds are like rocking horse manure, but If you go to your local asda and buy dried goji berries. Re-hydrate, then squeeze onto a kitchen towel and leave for 2 days you should be able to gather the very small seeds up ( you get about ten per berry ). |














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