Richard Watson's Comments

HI richard, your stone plastic house looks very substantial, love the rock work, I imagine the rock would also help to stabilise it when there are big winds, great concept.

Hello Richard, have just managed to germinate some goji seedlings and would love to see photos of your plants when you have time to post them. Are they in the ground and how do you protect them over winter?

Hi Richard
Our Goji bush really enjoyed the week of rain that we had recently. It grew a bit and looks much happier than previously. It is still pretty small-don't think it would be a metre tall yet.

Hi Richard, I live in Hanmer Springs, would love to hear about your garden & seed saving from someone else in Nth Canterbury.!
Annie

Hiya Richard
Still very much in the learning phase of most of this. I've had more misses than successes but I'm still having fun trying :-)

Two of the my best Goji plants are 1m tall,but i seem to loss half the plants i grow from seed,they are dying of some disease but i'm not worried as my best plants are not affected, it seems to hit the same time each year in spring.I grow them from seed that i get out of supermarket bought berries,i'm thinking that when i start getting my own berries from the bushes that show resistance this disease problem may diminish over time.
You are right Hester they are tough alright,they can handle -30C and having deep taproots wont need watering once established.

PS How tall are your 3 year old Gojis?

Hi Richard, we got our Goji in the autumn and it promptly lost it's leaves. I was happy to learn they are deciduous and sure enough in early spring it sprouted new leaves. It is in a partly sunny spot on one of our boundary fences. it isn't romping away but it is alive and growing a bit so i am hopeful. It was a very small plant when we got it. I'm thinking it will take a while to get established. I read that they grow in English hedgerows-known as wolfberries-so I'm picking they are probably pretty tough.