Why Goji Shrubs Are a Terrible Plant to Grow
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Goji bushes are a terrible plant for most suburban properties and in this video I explain why you should not grow them at all.
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I have them, they do spread an awful lot but man do the chickens go nuts for them.
I think I still might put in the one I've been procrastinatin on planting in my smallish chicken pasture. We have just under an acre, and since my elderly dad passed (at home from lung cancer during the lockdown), the very large Market Garden has gone almost all to weeds.
So long as that is where you’re going to want it - forever! - I say go for it. I’m *still* digging up sprouts every week or so all these months later
I've been looking for shrub barriers for between me and neighbors fence...do they grow fast?????
Will they grow in central Texas heat/cold? They sound ideal for chickens. Chickens might tear them up too much!
Where are you located?
Oh. No fruit?!
@@TheRainHarvester That was just my experience with no fruit. Maybe because I was constantly having to prune them it impacted their fruit producing capabilities, but I do know others seem to have bountiful harvests. I'm located in northern NJ but I don't see why they wouldn't grow in Texas.
They might very well be good for chickens too, certainly from a shade/protection perspective. I actually have a elderberry shrub in with my chickens and I anticipated they would tear it up, but they didn't touch it. Now it is spreading too!
Lol! Yes if you don't have the room for them.
Horrible on a small suburban plot lol
I had mine right by a deck and just two years later the roots have gone all over under the deck. Any idea how I can get rid of the roots? The highest spot (the land slants a bit) give me enough space that I can sit on the ground with head bent. I have flower bed in the lower section of the yard from the deck about 3 feet away. You mentioned using salt. Will it kill stuff around my flower bed also as the salt water will sip through and down to the flower bed? It sounds better using round up. I am a novice gardener. I can use all the help I can get to get rid of this busy. Too bad that it was giving lots of fruit. I am thinking of potting them without any holes so that it won't spread.
Lol I feel ya! I'm STILL digging up the roots because they keep sprouting. That's one of the reasons the goji is considered such a "beneficial" plant because its roots go down deep into the earth. They're considered "dynamic accumulators" as they dig deep into the subsoil far beyond the reach of most plants and bringing the nutrients hidden away up to the surface. I've been using a garden fork to find the roots and pull them up until they break off. It's going to be a long process to rid the,.
As for using salt, I was just being funny. It's an old tactic by conquerers (actually mentioned in the bible) where they would salt the earth to prevent anything from growing again. The runoff would most likely severely harm or kill your flowers. It's not advisable to do that. Whether it was actually work with goji, though, I don't know. Since your goji is under your deck, going the Roundup route might not be a bad idea, but as I mentioned the goji's roots go deep so it might take digging up the ground as best you can and pouring it in. It might also take several applications. But you will want to be careful because you don't want it running down hill. Good luck, since as I said, I'm still dealing with it too. My hope is that by continuously digging up the roots I will eventually damage them enough so they will die. Sigh.
@@HomesteadDIY I wish they warn us about it when we buy the bush. I am going to study more on salt method and the impact from the roundup run off if I was to use it. Someone mentioned to brush the fresh cut area of the root with round up concentrate few times. I did that yesterday then it rained. Also if I do that I won't know if I covered everything under the deck. I habe to do something that treats the area. Maybe I should do a video of it. Ha.. I am surprised there aren't as many complaints about the invasiveness of the bush.