permaculture

[Paul d'Aoust <paul@heliosville.com>]

Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum), AKA 'goji', is pretty edible -- it's one of
the newest wonder-food nutraceutical thingies that people are obsessing
rather unholistically over. I like the flavour, although I think it's
more suited to salads than to desserts. It's got a pleasantly sweet
flavour, somewhat bland, with a faint aftertaste of school glue, sort of
like a tamarillo (tree tomato).

I believe it's fairly resilient to heavy soil, although it does prefer
well-draining soil. It's not a huge fan of soggy soil, so if there are
any damp patches it'd probably be good to plant it elsewhere. It'll also
tolerate fairly poor soils and droughty conditions (although the best
berries come from fertile soil).

It suckers rather eagerly, so it should fill out by itself within a few
years. I don't know how dense it gets -- the ones I got my suckers from
were kinda straggly, but this photo suggests that it might be thick
enough:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arjuna/2527981708/

Hope that helps!
Paul d'Aoust
Penticton, BC, Canada

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 18:36 -0700, Josh Lindsey wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm looking for a hedge that will function as both a privacy
> screen and food source. The more dense the hedge, the better.
> 
> It would be planted with southern exposure on a hill that receives lots of
> rainwater runoff from the property above. The hill is steep and drains well,
> but stays moist 3 seasons. Soil is clay-ish, but can be worked. Hill
> currently has ivy/grass/blackberry.  I'm in Southwest Washington State ---
> USDA Zone 8.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Josh
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