RE: weekend gardening
So Libby, (or anyone)-- about this shrub, eleagnus multiflora.... is it
like raspberries where the runners are everywhere?!? Thorns?
Don't agree with that site tho Kitty-- we have tons of water here and
strawberries are bigger and I am sick of eating them! I have been
picking a larger bowl daily for weeks now, and leave some for the
critters too.
Ha! For once we can grow something Island Jim can't...
http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/producttype.cfm?producttype=Goumi
maybe I should snurl it:
http://snipurl.com/721b
Donna
> Interesting. Eleagnus multiflora:
> http://www.twinoaks.org/gallery/news-2003/goumi_kaweah2
>
> Kitty
>
>
> > Hi, Libby. Tell me more about the gumi (also spelled goumi), please.
> >
> > On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 03:31 PM, Libby Valentine wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I'm down to only 4 plants left to be planted (okay, not
counting
> > > the
> > > tomatoes and peppers I started that still need to go out - usually
do
> > > them
> > > Memorial Day but didn't get to them). Hooray! Finally finished
the
> > > last
> > > third of my new large bed (maybe 12' x 35' or so) at least with
> initial
> > > plantings (several asclepias, multiples of several different
varieties
> > > of
> > > phlox, some asters - it's got bird/butterfly plantings plus 3
young
> > > sapphireberries) and papered and mulched the rest, except for a
small
> > > 2x4
> > > area because I ran out of paper. Finished edging it - I am pretty
> > > excited
> > > it's very close to done (for this year). It's sort of a trapezoid
> > > shape,
> > > created because that area of the property is very sloped and I
didn't
> > > want
> > > DH mowing it.
> > >
> > > Anybody else have a gumi (also spelled goumi)? Mine is now about
8
> > > years
> > > old, and put out a big crop of berries this year. Since I was
working
> > > by
> > > it, I sampled a lot of them - yum! They look like tiny, slightly
> > > elongated
> > > red cherries, maybe 1/2 inch long and half that wide, and when
ripe
> are
> > > slightly soft. Taste somewhere between cherry and strawberry.
> > > Anyway, the
> > > birds are going to have some competition for them from here on out
now
> > > that
> > > I know how good they are!
> > >
> > > The cicadas are winding down, but I saw the first Japanese beetles
> > > yesterday. Sigh. Also did not realize how destructive the
cicadas
> > > can be
> > > to twigs, but I guess it's mostly temporary setback for the trees.
> > >
> > > Libby
> > > Maryland zone 6
> > >
> >
> >
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