Goumi
Goumi shrubs have silvery-green leaves and produce fragrant, small yellow flowers in spring. These are followed by beautiful red, speckled berries in early summer, generally mid may to early June here. The berries have a sweet-tart flavor and are packed with lycopene! The seeds are also delicious, buttery and nutty.
Goumi plants thrive in full sun to partial shade and adapt to various soil types. They’re hardy in usda zones 4-9 and are super drought tolerant. They fix nitrogen and can be used in a chop and drop system, or to build up more poor soil. I find they do thrive in a richer setting to begin with, but will establish in any soil condition within a couple years.
Goumi root from hardwood or softwood cuttings, but can take quite a long time to do so. Hardwood cuttings in the early spring on bottom heat has worked best for us. Seeds also readily sprout in the spring after a warm stratification followed by a cold stratification. But they need to stay moist. Best way to do so this is to plant whole fruit or seeds immediately in soil outdoors.
Varieties we grow:
Sweet scarlet - grows to about dime sized, with delicious flavor and notably smaller seeds, good to eat seed and all!
Carmine/Tilamook - larger berry, growing to the size of a small olive. Delicious, with quite a large seed
Goumi shrubs have silvery-green leaves and produce fragrant, small yellow flowers in spring. These are followed by beautiful red, speckled berries in early summer, generally mid may to early June here. The berries have a sweet-tart flavor and are packed with lycopene! The seeds are also delicious, buttery and nutty.
Goumi plants thrive in full sun to partial shade and adapt to various soil types. They’re hardy in usda zones 4-9 and are super drought tolerant. They fix nitrogen and can be used in a chop and drop system, or to build up more poor soil. I find they do thrive in a richer setting to begin with, but will establish in any soil condition within a couple years.
Goumi root from hardwood or softwood cuttings, but can take quite a long time to do so. Hardwood cuttings in the early spring on bottom heat has worked best for us. Seeds also readily sprout in the spring after a warm stratification followed by a cold stratification. But they need to stay moist. Best way to do so this is to plant whole fruit or seeds immediately in soil outdoors.
Varieties we grow:
Sweet scarlet - grows to about dime sized, with delicious flavor and notably smaller seeds, good to eat seed and all!
Carmine/Tilamook - larger berry, growing to the size of a small olive. Delicious, with quite a large seed
Goumi shrubs have silvery-green leaves and produce fragrant, small yellow flowers in spring. These are followed by beautiful red, speckled berries in early summer, generally mid may to early June here. The berries have a sweet-tart flavor and are packed with lycopene! The seeds are also delicious, buttery and nutty.
Goumi plants thrive in full sun to partial shade and adapt to various soil types. They’re hardy in usda zones 4-9 and are super drought tolerant. They fix nitrogen and can be used in a chop and drop system, or to build up more poor soil. I find they do thrive in a richer setting to begin with, but will establish in any soil condition within a couple years.
Goumi root from hardwood or softwood cuttings, but can take quite a long time to do so. Hardwood cuttings in the early spring on bottom heat has worked best for us. Seeds also readily sprout in the spring after a warm stratification followed by a cold stratification. But they need to stay moist. Best way to do so this is to plant whole fruit or seeds immediately in soil outdoors.
Varieties we grow:
Sweet scarlet - grows to about dime sized, with delicious flavor and notably smaller seeds, good to eat seed and all!
Carmine/Tilamook - larger berry, growing to the size of a small olive. Delicious, with quite a large seed