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- Growing goji berries in the garden
- Consume goji berries safely from your own harvest
- The enjoyment of fresh consumption and own processing
- Goji berries tend to thrive and grow quickly
- Tips
Goji berries also feel good in Central European gardens
Growing goji berries in the garden
Goji berries became known to the general population in Central Europe with the trend of so-called "superfoods" and are mostly available in dried form. There are certainly reasons that favor the cultivation of vitamin-rich berries in a suitable location in their own garden.
Consume goji berries safely from your own harvest
After the rise of the Goji berry to become the "trend berry", it did not take long for dehydrated imports from various countries around the world to be available in stores. However, numerous tests in these dried berries have found the residues of dangerous pesticides, so that the allegedly positive effect on the health by eating them was virtually thwarted. When you own Goji berries in your own garden, you can be sure to retain full control of fertilizers or plant health resources at all times.
The enjoyment of fresh consumption and own processing
Since large-scale cultivation in Germany lags behind imports from other countries, the bright orange-red berries are usually only available in dried form or as juice. If they are harvested sufficiently matured, goji berries but also fresh from the shrub taste delicious and reasonably sweet. If the crop is slightly larger in late summer, the fruit can also be made into juice or dried to serve as a flavoring ingredient in the following dishes:
Goji berries tend to thrive and grow quickly
If it is not just about freshly grown seedlings, goji berries are quite hardy even at temperatures of up to - 25 degrees Celsius. The shrubs can therefore easily overwinter in the field and tend under suitable conditions to a relatively rapid and vigorous growth. As part of the care it does not hurt to cut back Goji berries quite courageously every year.
Tips
Older shrubs can not only above-ground their long branches such as sinkers on the ground new roots, sometimes form also subterranean foothills. It may therefore be advisable to protect the rest of the garden from excessive spreading of the goji berries with a rhizome barrier in the soil.