permaculture

[Lisa MacIver <lisamaciver8@yahoo.com>]

I tasted the first goumi from my 3yo shrub this summer (birds got 
most) - it was *TART*.  More sour and less sweet than pie cherry.
But flavor wasn't bad... may be wonderful for jam.  It's a close 
relative of autumn and russian olive (and silverberry), but I haven't 
heard goumi is invasive anywhere.  

Seems to me I asked on list and was told that honey locusts are not 
actually nitrogen fixing - not enough root nodules, or something (if 
this list has an archive, you might check that).  As I recall they 
were N-neutral, so at least you get good fodder without depleting 
soil... Black locusts are nitrogen fixing.

Lisa in Ashland Oregon

> > A friend told me yesterday about a shrub called "goumi".  The fruit
> looks a little like a
> > cherry and "tastes like PEZ".  He says the bush is nitorgen
> fixing!!
> > 
> > True?  Anybody familiar with this shrub?
> > 
> > I just ordered a bunch of siberian pea shrubs, honey locust trees
> and russian olive
> > trees, all because they are nitrogen fixing and provide food for
> > chickens/pigs/cattle/etc.



                
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