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- From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
I'm growing Goji berries in zone 3. I got seeds from Jim Ternier at Prairie
Garden Seeds in Cochin, SK Canada last year. He kindly sent me two packets:
seeds he had grown and collected as well as seeds from a Chinese grocery. I
started both inside, then my toddler mixed up the labels and so I planted out
a mix of both kinds making up about 50 plants last spring. There was a lot
of variability in survival this past winter: some were hardy right to the tip
and some died back to the ground. We have had several very dry years in a
row, including this one, and I have lost several hardy trees and had all my
apricots die back varying amounts (some down to 6" for 8' never having died
back at all even after a -48F winter) so this isn't the year for me to judge
hardiness. I did pull out some of the Goji berries (we had a really late
week of frosts combined with 6" of snow the second week of June) when I
noticed that some of them showed frost damage as well
as the top die back from the winter whereas others showed no damage at all.
I also put in 150 more seedlings (carefully labeled with Sharpie on plastic
under the plant pots to circumvent my toddler!) this spring and I will post
how the berries from both sources do next spring.
Goji Berries have been growing feral in Edmonton ever since they were brought
here by Chinese railroad workers. And I also recently met a Chinese
gentleman on the U.B.C. Botanical Garden Forum (look for the Goji thread) and
he and his wife have been growing Goji berries (he calls them a slightly
different name) for years in Edmonton which is a zone 3/4.
This year I also bought Goji Berries from the Saskatoon Farm (on the web)
which I believe is in zone 3 and from Dominion Seeds (on the web), but they
list their as zone 5 hardy and emphasized to me that there is no guarantee
with my plants!
Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB
--- On Sat, 6/20/09, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 2:21 PM
> I've put a few plants in the ground
> but have no idea if they'll make
> it thru the winter. A friend up by Lake Superior has
> had his make it
> thru a winter or 2 but he's a notch warmer than down here.
>
> & just found this on the net from someone growing goji
> in Iowa &
> offering "super" cultivars...
>
> http://www.fountainofyouth-gojiseed.com/
>
>
> (the site might be a bit much for those of you who don't
> want to live
> for ever, etc, etc)
>
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
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>
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[NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
mIEKAL aND, 06/20/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Sarah Kehler Ewing, 06/20/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Kieran &/or Donna, 06/21/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Lon J. Rombough, 06/21/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?, Kieran &/or Donna, 06/21/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
S & E Hills, 06/22/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Lon J. Rombough, 06/22/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
mIEKAL aND, 06/22/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?, Lon J. Rombough, 06/22/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
mIEKAL aND, 06/22/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Lon J. Rombough, 06/22/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Lon J. Rombough, 06/21/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
Kieran &/or Donna, 06/21/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?, JAMES ELIE, 06/21/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?,
John S, 06/22/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Anyone growing goji in zone 4?, mIEKAL aND, 06/25/2009
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