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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

Miekal, we've had -24 here, and multiple lows in the -20's here (although
not last two years) since we planted our Goumi. The first winter it had was
a real doozy, and it had very slight tip dieback. Otherwise, it comes
through fine, no damage at all. I can't imagine it getting burned by late
spring frosts, although it leafs out on the early side (with cherries and
maples way before oaks though and after black currants) it never shows any
frost damage here, and typically blooms early may here and rides through any
last light frosts. Loaded with fruit.

The fruit was cherry-sized in previous years, but it's set a large crop this
year, and they are more like a big autumn-olive, or say service-berry sized
this year. Just starting to ripen.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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