Hollis and Nancy , A wonderful blessed morning to you. I was going to ask you for some extra prayer...but I just got some wonderful news. My oldest son had been in the hospital for a week...His progress was wonderful the last 2 days...but today he said he may get to come home....so so happy. Ive been at the hospital constant......So relieved. Love traveling along with you 2 on your journey. Thank you.
These are one of the few berries that grow well where we live...we have a climate a LOT like Tibet...and goji were the first berry plants I tried! So awesome to see you all enjoying them too, Shalom in His Mighty name, YHWH
I was blown away yesterday Hollis. My son called me and they said they might release him if he held down some food. I called to check on him a while later and he was home. He said with all those tubes out he can walk better and feels a whole lot better...well he hadnt eaten for a week either...thank you both. God bless!
I planted 1 slip in a grow bag in March of this year! Wasn’t expecting it to produce this year BUT IM HARVESTING SO MANY BETTIES NOW! Very prolific bush plant!
Loved this time with you on the homestead ~ with this ancient awesome berry. Good permaculture area 👌🏽🌱🌿 and easygoing nature. I like your Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance book 📖 on your table at the end. Lovely scripture from Galatians too.
I've never heard of these kinds of berries. I'm going to research them. Thanks for introducing me to another kind of treat for me to grow in my garden.
Well done guys, great crop! I bought a little plant online and it's struggling along, so I've been speaking life over it haha. blessings from New Zealand
It is great! People in Asia have been using this brightly colored fruit for more than 2,000 years as a medicinal herb and food supplement. Goji berries are widely available for purchase in health food stores and online. Very expensive but you can grow your own! Enjoy
Looks like the "stick" really speeds up your harvest! They look delicious and seven month turnaround on the harvest makes them super productive, ya'll do good works. Bless you and yours!
God bless you guys from Newbie Rumen Nursery animal sanctuary South Australia Very informative lovely harvest Had to run outside and check our goji berry bush but to early yet for us
I haven't read all the comments but I was wondering if you tried one of those blueberry pickers? Looks like a comb? Wonder if that would be faster? Just a suggestion. Thanks for all the videos! God Bless!
Thanks! I wondered why mine weren't doing that well between harvests - I needed to cut them back every year. Who knew!? BTW: That quote from Galatians 5:22-23 NIV is very enlightening and profound to me. Amazing!
Hi, you mentioned thorns on Goji berry bushes in the planting video, can you confirm because I'm not interested in having any more thorns after dealing with Wild Roses and Blackberry weeds.
I enjoy your gardening adventures and since I've been gardening in Florida for 40 years (ouch!) I thought I'd pass on a bit of info---Mulch! it saves moisture and work! Plus when working around your plants be oh so careful!!!!!Snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a little tip from one farmer to another. I'm so pleased your dream of having a farm has come to fruition. Just me.
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. We are in 9A
I love to watch your vids. You are great Gardner’s. I see your healthy bursts of red and I fear I will never have them. I LIVE IN MONTANA. Nuff said.my plants look green and healthy, like yours but they blossom in late Aug and the snow and cold comes and the poor little berries don’t stand a chance. Enjoy your goji berries.
Those berries look like they are very labor intensive. I thought you said you were going to dehydrate them in your original post when you planted. Looks like the plant is going to give so many berries your going to have fun keeping up with them. I’ve seen them dried in the stores but I haven’t tried them yet.
I just read about them so I should be OK. I cut mine down to a few inches during late fall and winter. Come back every year. One PROBLEM has White bumbs on them. I thought a BUG. NEVER see ANY. Only buble bees. YOUR LEAVES look green and HEALTHY.. THANK YOU. CHOW
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries.
I have a goji berry plant but the first few years not a lot happened. Then I clipped them all the way back and they exploded once the sun came out in spring. However, it took ages for them to flower and only last october I got a couple of berries. I live in the Netherlands so perhaps the climate is too cool
Do you know that Goji leaves, tender stem can cook in soup . Old branches, roots can be air tried and concoction , using them as tea. Giji is having medicinal quality for lot of things. You can check it out on Google. Goji is one of Chinese medicine. We eat them like vegetable .
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. I would love to try them in muffins and cobblers. Enjoy
Are there different types of goji berries? I was sold what was supposed to be a goji berry bush which turn into more of a tree and the berries are small and dark dark purple maybe black. I put it in to our wildlife habitat thinking the birds would love it and nobody will touch it. I'm wondering what the heck I'm growing cuz it looks nothing like your goji berries. Do you have any ideas on what this might be?
Both. Take some berries, put some soil in pot, squish some berries, cover with soil and water. Will sprout for sure. Another way is take some 10 inch cuttings and stick them in soil. Water occasionally. Will root for sure. This plant is very resilient.
Will you guys be drying any for storage? Will there be any left to store?😂 they're nice in chinese herbal soups, they just put about half a dozen dried berries in a pot. Yum
She dries them and eats them in salads. They taste like raisins to me when they appear in my salad. She also puts them in her smoothies. Sometimes she snacks on a small bowl while watching TV
Have 2 varieties. One is somewhat sweet. One is bitter. Will dig out the bitter one. The sweet one will stay just for nutritional purposes. They are not snacks like blueberries or honeyberries. Goji have very neutral taste, grass like.
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries.
@@HollisNancysHomestead That is not entirely true. I pick them when they are super ripe. They are not tart. They are somewhat sweet and grass like. I have 2 varieties for some years now. One is bitter and turns out it will stay this way. It is harvested for its leaves. Sweet one becomes better with age, but don't expect much from it taste wise.
@@HollisNancysHomestead I recognized your soil and type of trees. My hubby and I lived in Orange Park for over 30 yrs. We never could grow a tasty tomato in our sandy soil. Back in our home state of Ohio and I finally had good tomato's. Thank you for sharing in your video's. Love your homestead.
I know they are so nutritious and I want to eat them so bad but they give me the worst headaches. 😢 Anyways, other than eating the fresh, what do you do with them to extend their use? Maybe we will get a recipe video from Nancy? 😁
I think your body just doesn't like one of the chemicals this berry possesses. If you have no reaction like this from other food, then stay away from goji.
My question would be, "How many did you eat?" Even though touted as healthy, and listed as a "Super Food", more isn't necessarily better!!!! Example: The first use of the term Super Food was in the early 1900's, used as a Marketing Strategy!!!, (go figure) to promote another Super Food, banana's. Great source of needed potassium, which helps with lowering blood pressure. BUT, to much potassium intake can create heart problems. Arrhythmia. We are all built differently, and may or may not be affected the same way as others, especially if on medications of one sort or another. I KNOW, bacon and sausage isn't good for me. I have at least 4 meals a week including them. However, if they added them both, to the Super Foods list tomorrow, I wouldn't start eating them Daily!!! No one is taking the "B" outta my BLT!!! at the age of 65. Best of luck Jen, just do your homework.
@@marktoldgardengnome4110 I had maybe 1/2 a handful if that each time. I had to try it a few times to determine if it was actually the berries causing the headache not something else. And it was a week or more between each time. Guess they just aren't for me.
Somehow the birds is not interested to eat my big bushy Gogi berries, which is great. I am so grateful for that! And I am thankful to the for the good bearing bush. I just harvest some today.
I grow these and today my CHINESE NEIGHBOR and I took the berries OFF. She dries them for the WINTER. I DIDN'T KNOW their name. I 'll look up the information about them. THANK YOU and GOD BLESS YOU. I live in MICHIGAN. I hang mine up onto a wreath so they DON'T hang all over the GROUND. I LOVE the purple flowers on them. What are good about them. How are they to TASTE❓ Bitter to me. Good to add to VEGGIES or to juice.. LOVE SHALOM CHOW 😎😎🌹🌹🀄🔯🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄👍👍🐦🐦PRAY
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. I would love to try them in muffins and cobblers. Enjoy
I've found that gogi berries have a bitter aftertaste unless fully ripe. The signs of a really good goji berry are full red color, not so glossy, soft but not squishy, and easy to pull off. If you get a good one it is delightful, but recognising these takes practice.
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. Enjoy
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries.
@@HollisNancysHomestead The Big life berry is not very tasty, I prefer the NQ1 it's very sweet and tasty but the production is not as high as the big life berry
Hi Hollis/Nancy, I have a Goji berry, it doesn't produce anywhere near the number of berries as yours, what tips can you give me to produce more fruit? Many thanks, Phil.
I add fish in the hole when I planted it with Bone Meal and Blood Meal. Check out Part 1 of this video. It will show you how I planted it to get such beautiful berries. Next spring, side dress your plants with bone meal and blood meal by digging a circle around your plant. Add the bone and blood Meal in the circle trench and work it into the soil. Water it in. Every 3 weeks add fish emulsion to your plants.
How do you harvest goji berries? According to Utah State University: Harvest goji berries when they reach full color (approximately 35 days after full bloom). Unlike some berries that can be shaken or beaten from the plants by mechanical harvesters, goji fruit must be picked by hand as the fruit does not easily separate from the stem, and bruised berries will turn black. Goji In The Garden - USU Extension Services
Save Nancy the weeding chore and get a tree trimming or landscape company to drop off a full load of wood chips, it's usually free. Put a good thick layer under and around those shrubs and the weeds will not grow, same with all of your fruit trees.
@@HollisNancysHomestead - Termites are EVERYWHERE in Florida (I'm a native Floridian), as far as the wood chips go, they are one of the essential creatures that help to break down the chips, just as earthworms breakdown manure. Chip don't attract them any more than your cord wood does. As far as fire ants go, there isn't anywhere in Florida that you won't find them, except in the water! Even here in North Carolina, they show up in raised gardens and containers every year. What you will need to learn is how to get rid of them when you find them. The best two ways is to use AMDRO or to use the DIY formula of orange oil, dish soap, and water. Another get deterrent is to raise some free range guineas. Guineas will travel around in the garden and eat grubs, beetles, ticks, flying ants, termites, etc. as well as harassing snakes and force them out of the area, while leaving the plants, vegetables, and fruits alone (unlike chickens). The only thing they may do that is annoying is to dust bathe in a dry spot in the garden, and many people find them noisy.
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Hollis and Nancy , A wonderful blessed morning to you. I was going to ask you for some extra prayer...but I just got some wonderful news. My oldest son had been in the hospital for a week...His progress was wonderful the last 2 days...but today he said he may get to come home....so so happy. Ive been at the hospital constant......So relieved. Love traveling along with you 2 on your journey. Thank you.
Prayers going up for your son❤️🙏
These are one of the few berries that grow well where we live...we have a climate a LOT like Tibet...and goji were the first berry plants I tried! So awesome to see you all enjoying them too, Shalom in His Mighty name, YHWH
Nice to see your new homestead flourishing be blessed abundantly my friends
lovely...nice to see you both together gives me strength and hope.
I was blown away yesterday Hollis. My son called me and they said they might release him if he held down some food. I called to check on him a while later and he was home. He said with all those tubes out he can walk better and feels a whole lot better...well he hadnt eaten for a week either...thank you both. God bless!
Praise the Lord!😇
Thanks for the video and growing tips! My goji plant is 4 years old still producing well.
That's great!
Great job! It's because of you guys that I am a pretty decent gardner. Thank you both for all your hard work and generosity of spirit!
they look great and for them to keep producing all summer is a good thing to have can't wait to see the GARDEN.
I planted 1 slip in a grow bag in March of this year! Wasn’t expecting it to produce this year BUT IM HARVESTING SO MANY BETTIES NOW! Very prolific bush plant!
Hollis, not only are your gardening skills impressive... but I'm more impressed that you are 64 and making good youtube videos! Bravo!
Wow, those are beautiful! So, what do they taste similar to? Thanks for sharing.
I love watching your videos!! I get inspired! Have a blessed day!!
Thanks for all the knowledge and inspiration you share!
My pleasure!
Loved this time with you on the homestead ~ with this ancient awesome berry. Good permaculture area 👌🏽🌱🌿 and easygoing nature. I like your Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance book 📖 on your table at the end. Lovely scripture from Galatians too.
Thank you for all your great Videos always
I've never heard of these kinds of berries. I'm going to research them. Thanks for introducing me to another kind of treat for me to grow in my garden.
@thatpat1 Are they sweet or like blueberry, a little tart?
Little tart but sweet if you dry them. Its like cranberry. Enjoy
@@HollisNancysHomestead Oh Ok, sounds really good. I'm going to look into getting some plants next year. I love having a diverse garden. Thank you!!
Bing bing is even helping! Haha too cute! Great video guys💛
Well done guys, great crop! I bought a little plant online and it's struggling along, so I've been speaking life over it haha. blessings from New Zealand
Never had goji berries, they look good
It is great! People in Asia have been using this brightly colored fruit for more than 2,000 years as a medicinal herb and food supplement. Goji berries are widely available for purchase in health food stores and online. Very expensive but you can grow your own! Enjoy
Looks like the "stick" really speeds up your harvest! They look delicious and seven month turnaround on the harvest makes them super productive, ya'll do good works. Bless you and yours!
I just might try those in my Zone 5B / 6A area and see how they'll do, Thanks for the vlog, God Bless!
Thanks for the video...you may like to leave some berries to dry on the bushes and collect them to make tea or add to soup or cereal for breakfast.
God bless you guys from Newbie Rumen Nursery animal sanctuary South Australia
Very informative lovely harvest
Had to run outside and check our goji berry bush but to early yet for us
God bless you for what you do with the animals. Have you seen our video on all the wildlife on our homestead? Let me send you a link
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And be safe in these strange days
They grow like crazy and they will start to grow everywhere.
I haven't read all the comments but I was wondering if you tried one of those blueberry pickers? Looks like a comb? Wonder if that would be faster? Just a suggestion. Thanks for all the videos! God Bless!
Your Goji berry looked so healthy. Can grow a new plant from cutting the branch? Love your chanel and your family. Best wish and stay healthy ❤️
Yes you can grow from cutting. I have some growing for my friends. Enjoy
LOVE IT❤🙈🏆
THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBEDIENCE THE MOST HIGH GOD FOR SHARING👼🏆
Have a blessed day! Pray you will always be safe and sound.
Ha ha...bing bing got busted on camera!
I got distracted by Bing Bing, he was looking extra cute.
Love watching you guys. Great show. Very helpful.
Thanks for watching ❤️❤️🐶
Thanks! I wondered why mine weren't doing that well between harvests - I needed to cut them back every year. Who knew!?
BTW: That quote from Galatians 5:22-23 NIV is very enlightening and profound to me. Amazing!
Hi, you mentioned thorns on Goji berry bushes in the planting video, can you confirm because I'm not interested in having any more thorns after dealing with Wild Roses and Blackberry weeds.
Yes, they have thorns
@@HollisNancysHomestead Thanks!
I enjoy your gardening adventures and since I've been gardening in Florida for 40 years (ouch!) I thought I'd pass on a bit of info---Mulch! it saves moisture and work! Plus when working around your plants be oh so careful!!!!!Snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a little tip from one farmer to another. I'm so pleased your dream of having a farm has come to fruition. Just me.
Definitely got a bunch of snakes
Harvest looks time consuming.But the dried berries are sooooooo good!
Those look great may I ask what do they taste like Nancy and what zones will they grow in Thank you for sharing God Bless
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. We are in 9A
Have you thought about trellising them so they don't sprawl out as much.
I love and look forward to your videos, and learn so much!! Love your pooch too!!
Bing Bing sends you a doggy smooch 🐶❤️
Hollis & Nancy's Homestead : Love you Bing Bing 🥰🐶
I love to watch your vids. You are great Gardner’s. I see your healthy bursts of red and I fear I will never have them. I LIVE IN MONTANA. Nuff said.my plants look green and healthy, like yours but they blossom in late Aug and the snow and cold comes and the poor little berries don’t stand a chance. Enjoy your goji berries.
Those berries look like they are very labor intensive. I thought you said you were going to dehydrate them in your original post when you planted. Looks like the plant is going to give so many berries your going to have fun keeping up with them. I’ve seen them dried in the stores but I haven’t tried them yet.
They get a lot bigger as they age. Tips shown makes them easier to harvest. Its worth all the health benefits.
Love your videos.
Always love your videos
I just read about them so I should be OK. I cut mine down to a few inches during late fall and winter. Come back every year.
One PROBLEM has White bumbs on them. I thought a BUG. NEVER see ANY. Only buble bees. YOUR LEAVES look green and HEALTHY..
THANK YOU. CHOW
NIcely done. What is the taste like? I'm in S.Fl wonder if it's too hot here?
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries.
Beautiful!
Do the seeds/fruit that drop promote volunteer plants over the years? Thanks for the video. Always enjoy. Mark
Yes
What do they taste like? Can you use them in recipes or just for eating out of hand?
It taste little sweet if you make sure its ripen and you can use it just eating it or I like to put it in my salads. Enjoy!
My Gma used to make tea with goji berries. You can dehydrate some to eat daily instead of having to eat them right away.
I have a goji berry plant but the first few years not a lot happened. Then I clipped them all the way back and they exploded once the sun came out in spring.
However, it took ages for them to flower and only last october I got a couple of berries.
I live in the Netherlands so perhaps the climate is too cool
They like it warm
@@HollisNancysHomestead I thought so. Keep up with the great video's, I thoroughly enjoy them
I had a tomato worm eating on mine! Thankful it came back and now flowering
What do they taste like? Sweet or tart?
Do you know that Goji leaves, tender stem can cook in soup . Old branches, roots can be air tried and concoction , using them as tea. Giji is having medicinal quality for lot of things. You can check it out on Google. Goji is one of Chinese medicine. We eat them like vegetable .
It's already time for harvest?? Time is just flying...looks like you guys moved in yesterday 😊...love you both 😘
Nancy, besides fresh eating do you do anything specific with the Goji berries? Just wondering. Thanks for sharing. God Bless you both ~Lisa
I put it anywhere that I would use cranberry. I love it in my chicken salad and salads.
Can it grow well In a place with 34°c temperature?
yes
Luv you guys! 🤗
You look much slimmer since the last time I saw you Hollis!
TY.
I admit Ive never heard of goji berries before...Are they sweet? What can you use them for? Types of recipes, muffins? cobblers?
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. I would love to try them in muffins and cobblers. Enjoy
@@HollisNancysHomestead And I love cranberries...awesome
yay...Just found out I also had a new great grandbaby...lol Good times...yes!!! They were in the hospital right around the corner from my son.
Congrats on grandbaby! You are truly blessed.
What are the best ways to use those berries? Just eat them fresh or can you make a jelly with them? Thank You!
I like to dehydrate them and they taste sweet. I haven't made jelly with them, but would love to try!
Are there different types of goji berries? I was sold what was supposed to be a goji berry bush which turn into more of a tree and the berries are small and dark dark purple maybe black. I put it in to our wildlife habitat thinking the birds would love it and nobody will touch it. I'm wondering what the heck I'm growing cuz it looks nothing like your goji berries. Do you have any ideas on what this might be?
@thatpat1 thank you!
Love ur videos
Can you propagate more bushes from those or do you have to grow from seed?
Both. Take some berries, put some soil in pot, squish some berries, cover with soil and water. Will sprout for sure. Another way is take some 10 inch cuttings and stick them in soil. Water occasionally. Will root for sure. This plant is very resilient.
@@Mary.Mercedes My kids were playing and accidentally broke some stems. I cut them in pieces and just pushed into the ground. All of them rooted!
Good to know, I will add to my garden next year.
What type of soil did you plant with?
Will you guys be drying any for storage? Will there be any left to store?😂 they're nice in chinese herbal soups, they just put about half a dozen dried berries in a pot. Yum
I didn't know they went dormant and look dead. I thought mine was gone and now she has a few berries on them.
Maranatha HalleluYah!
The leaves are also nice in soup.
Hello, did y'all move to the conrty?? I saw your videos about growing potatoes in buckets God Bless
Yes, we moved to our rural homestead November 2017❤️
Nancy, would kindly share how you use these? Perhaps some recipes? I would greatly appreciate it!
She dries them and eats them in salads. They taste like raisins to me when they appear in my salad. She also puts them in her smoothies. Sometimes she snacks on a small bowl while watching TV
Never had one before are they sweet or sour? Do you make jam with them ?
Mine are bitter
Have 2 varieties. One is somewhat sweet. One is bitter. Will dig out the bitter one. The sweet one will stay just for nutritional purposes. They are not snacks like blueberries or honeyberries. Goji have very neutral taste, grass like.
Yevgeniy Shcherbakov thank you
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries.
@@HollisNancysHomestead That is not entirely true. I pick them when they are super ripe. They are not tart. They are somewhat sweet and grass like. I have 2 varieties for some years now. One is bitter and turns out it will stay this way. It is harvested for its leaves. Sweet one becomes better with age, but don't expect much from it taste wise.
Dear Hollis and Nancy, can I have a goji branch for grow in my back yard from you? I will pay for the shipping. Thanks in advance.
I love your video's. Is your homestead in Florida by any chance?
Yes it is. We are located in Orange Springs ❤️
@@HollisNancysHomestead I recognized your soil and type of trees. My hubby and I lived in Orange Park for over 30 yrs. We never could grow a tasty tomato in our sandy soil. Back in our home state of Ohio and I finally had good tomato's. Thank you for sharing in your video's. Love your homestead.
Goji berry jam?
what variety do you grow?
So that what goji berry looks like. I saw this in our grocery store and thought it is a small tomato. What does it taste like?
You have to wait till its over ripe to have it sweet
I know they are so nutritious and I want to eat them so bad but they give me the worst headaches. 😢
Anyways, other than eating the fresh, what do you do with them to extend their use? Maybe we will get a recipe video from Nancy? 😁
Check with your doctor, there might be a reason.
I think your body just doesn't like one of the chemicals this berry possesses. If you have no reaction like this from other food, then stay away from goji.
My question would be, "How many did you eat?" Even though touted as healthy, and listed as a "Super Food", more isn't necessarily better!!!! Example: The first use of the term Super Food was in the early 1900's, used as a Marketing Strategy!!!, (go figure) to promote another Super Food, banana's. Great source of needed potassium, which helps with lowering blood pressure. BUT, to much potassium intake can create heart problems. Arrhythmia. We are all built differently, and may or may not be affected the same way as others, especially if on medications of one sort or another. I KNOW, bacon and sausage isn't good for me. I have at least 4 meals a week including them. However, if they added them both, to the Super Foods list tomorrow, I wouldn't start eating them Daily!!! No one is taking the "B" outta my BLT!!! at the age of 65. Best of luck Jen, just do your homework.
@@marktoldgardengnome4110 I had maybe 1/2 a handful if that each time. I had to try it a few times to determine if it was actually the berries causing the headache not something else. And it was a week or more between each time.
Guess they just aren't for me.
Do you have trouble with birds or rabbits eating the Goji Berries before harvesting?
Somehow the birds is not interested to eat my big bushy Gogi berries, which is great. I am so grateful for that! And I am thankful to the for the good bearing bush. I just harvest some today.
I grow these and today my CHINESE NEIGHBOR and I took the berries OFF. She dries them for the WINTER. I DIDN'T KNOW their name. I 'll look up the information about them. THANK YOU and GOD BLESS YOU. I live in MICHIGAN. I hang mine up onto a wreath so they DON'T hang all over the GROUND. I LOVE the purple flowers on them. What are good about them. How are they to TASTE❓ Bitter to me. Good to add to VEGGIES or to juice.. LOVE
SHALOM CHOW 😎😎🌹🌹🀄🔯🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄👍👍🐦🐦PRAY
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. I would love to try them in muffins and cobblers. Enjoy
why do some people say they taste so bad they pull out the plants....are there some varieties that are to be avoided.????
They are all the same as far as I know. They taste good to me. I guess everyone has a different taste buds
I've found that gogi berries have a bitter aftertaste unless fully ripe. The signs of a really good goji
berry are full red color, not so glossy, soft but not squishy, and easy to pull off. If you get a good one
it is delightful, but recognising these takes practice.
There's different kinds the leaves you have to pay attention to. The one with big oval leaves arnt sweet like the slender leaf ones.
Are they sweet?
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries. Enjoy
I just got one
Would Blueberries grow by you also?
We will be doing a new video on Blueberries as well as Strawberries as soon as I finish the Berry Enclosure
How hardy are Goji berries? I live in zone 7a.
I live in 3a, and my goji is in a pot. Very hardy and so many berries that I had to buy a dehydrator.
I'm in Philly. Zone 7. No problems.
What do they taste like? Never heard of Goji Berry.
The flavor is tart and sour, kind of like a cranberry, with an little herbal taste. Most people make the mistake to harvest as soon as it is red and is bitter. Taste and wait so its fully ripen. Enjoy! Drying them makes them sweeter like cranberries.
@@HollisNancysHomestead The Big life berry is not very tasty, I prefer the NQ1 it's very sweet and tasty but the production is not as high as the big life berry
Hi Hollis/Nancy, I have a Goji berry, it doesn't produce anywhere near the number of berries as yours, what tips can you give me to produce more fruit? Many thanks, Phil.
I add fish in the hole when I planted it with Bone Meal and Blood Meal. Check out Part 1 of this video. It will show you how I planted it to get such beautiful berries. Next spring, side dress your plants with bone meal and blood meal by digging a circle around your plant. Add the bone and blood Meal in the circle trench and work it into the soil. Water it in. Every 3 weeks add fish emulsion to your plants.
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My goji berries tast bitter am I doing something wrong?
Nope. You got the other variety. That's all. Buy a different one. But don't expect goji to be a snack.
I have multiple varieties of the Goji the company proven winners
How do you harvest goji berries?
According to Utah State University:
Harvest goji berries when they reach full color (approximately 35 days after full bloom). Unlike some berries that can be shaken or beaten from the plants by mechanical harvesters, goji fruit must be picked by hand as the fruit does not easily separate from the stem, and bruised berries will turn black.
Goji In The Garden - USU Extension Services
I put in a soup or in my water to drink.
Thanks for the great tip
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Did I hear you call your pup Lilly.
Nick name. Luede. :-)
@@HollisNancysHomestead Oh, glad Bing Bing is ok, thought you might've adopted a buddy for him, silly me..
U should sit on a stool and then pick the berries
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It goji berry sweet ? My goji not sweet it bitter
Nan here, best when you dehydrated them comes out sweeter
You need to build a Trellis for your goji otherwise they eventually will lying down on ground and will ruin your harvest later.
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Save Nancy the weeding chore and get a tree trimming or landscape company to drop off a full load of wood chips, it's usually free. Put a good thick layer under and around those shrubs and the weeds will not grow, same with all of your fruit trees.
Thanks for sharing, in Florida it collects termites and fire ants
@@HollisNancysHomestead - Termites are EVERYWHERE in Florida (I'm a native Floridian), as far as the wood chips go, they are one of the essential creatures that help to break down the chips, just as earthworms breakdown manure. Chip don't attract them any more than your cord wood does. As far as fire ants go, there isn't anywhere in Florida that you won't find them, except in the water! Even here in North Carolina, they show up in raised gardens and containers every year. What you will need to learn is how to get rid of them when you find them. The best two ways is to use AMDRO or to use the DIY formula of orange oil, dish soap, and water. Another get deterrent is to raise some free range guineas. Guineas will travel around in the garden and eat grubs, beetles, ticks, flying ants, termites, etc. as well as harassing snakes and force them out of the area, while leaving the plants, vegetables, and fruits alone (unlike chickens). The only thing they may do that is annoying is to dust bathe in a dry spot in the garden, and many people find them noisy.
Only plant from healthy strong root on fertile soil , needs 4 to 6 years achieve these results 🤣😂👀
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