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Hector:  Any idea if they have any issue being hardy to -25 or so?  &
can they handle being in an area with bad drainage.  Autumn Olive
grows everywhere around here & there are people who spend their lives
yanking it out of fields and prairie installations.

I guess I should buy some Goumi from Hidden Springs!

~mIEKAL



On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hector Black <hblack1925@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Michelle and all,  We'been growing goumi and autumn olive for 30 some years
> now.  The Goumi came from Sherwood Aiken and bears regularly every year.
> Not at all invasive, leave the berries on as long as you can for max.
> sweetness and min. pucker.  When frozen or cooked for jelly the astringency
> is gone.  They both fix nitrogen, especially the autumn olive.  Both are
> high in anti-oxidants, especially the autumn olive.  16x the lycopene of
> tomatoes.  We now boil the autumn olive down, no sugar added and seeds
> included,  to make a no-sugar jam.  Delicious.  The seeds are soft and like
> all seeds, quite nutritious.  mowing takes care of any seedlings spread by
> birds.
>   Cornelian cherry, Che, Mayhaw, hardy kiwi are some of the other minor
> fruits here, most for a pretty long time.    hector black, zone 6 middle tn