You can grow Goji berries in your home garden instead of buying berries imported from overseas. Goji berries grow well in containers and in your garden soil. In our new video Tricia plants them both ways. Goji berries fit easily into your garden, since you can grow them in or out of containers, prune them as bushes, or train them on trellises. Goji berries don’t like acid soil. If you live in an area where rhododendrons and camellias thrive, then you probably have slightly acid soil. Check…
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February 28, 2013 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
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Wow, this is great info! How does the goji berry measure up with respect to feed for bees, nectar and pollen?
Thank you!
Charlotte from Peaceful Valley Says:
Feb 3rd, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Blair, Glad this info is helpful to you! Goji berry plants produce plentiful flowers (as you can see from the number of resulting berries in the photos on our blog post about them—click above on “Goji berries—antioxidant beauty…”. To see a photo of the flower itself, click here and go to page 130 http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-2455.pdf