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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.

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 !

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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Updated November 17th - The Big Dig

not so long ago somebody was sayingn the goji berry was on the list of superfoods.

That's why they are charging so much for the juice. It cures death if you believe the blurb!

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HI MURFE 18,looked at the offer and wondered wether i should get it.still thinking about it as the berry bed in lottie is full of cheap bushes i bought from aldi earlier this year.g

i cant find them! my mum is a nutritionist n i can definately confirm that goji berries are very very good for you but in moderation as they still contain fruit sugars.

Holland n Barratt are selling dried Goji berries for about £50 a bag

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they really are yummy tho, we normally buy a 1kg bag for about £20 and that lasts ages so long as you only have a handful a day. easyer said than done tho i must say

How big do they grow? Tyring to decide how many to buy. Unfortunately the free postage offer seems to be over.

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I bought seeds on ebay in March and have now 20 odd seedlings in my greenhouse...About £2.00 for 25 seeds iirc..

A bare rooted plant is currently £6.49 (or £9.99 for 3 or £19.99 + 6 inc 12 strawberry plants) with T&M at the moment. Thinking about getting one for something different but not decided yet.

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Hi
put in an order for 6 of these bushesfrom T&M but no got them yet. Hope it dont take much longer.

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!

>chrisp
Grow a hedge with them is my advice.... they grow to about 3 metres tall x 400 = 1.2km of goji stems:-)

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

i ordered mine mid march and they came today.

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?

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:-))

Hi all. Got mine today after sending email saying if i dont get them i will want money back. Off to lotte tomorrow to stick them in the ground and see what happens :-)

Watch out for slugs. My growing ones suffered badly.

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 ).