To my surprise today the Goumi are loaded with ripe fruit. They are very small and delicious fruit. They are easy to pick by the handfuls! If I knew they were this good I would have planted more!
Beautiful, Clark. What do they taste like?
They taste a lot like cherries. The fruit made me feel wonderful when I ate it.
Isn’t it late for Goumi? Where do you live, the ones here were done a month ago I think.
Murky,
We are zone 5b. This is the first year I got enough to know if they are late or not. I just bought a bundle of the bushes from lawyer nursery several years ago and planted them not even knowing if I would get any fruit at all. I’ve never sprayed them, watered them , fertilized them etc. I was advised not to. They are highly disease resistant, drought and dampness resistant, and they fix their own atmospheric nitrogen just like a legume.
I picked this large coffee cup of Goumi’s in about 5 minutes. I just strip the branches of fruit and pick the leaves out when I’m done. There are still a few underripe Goumi’s in there but not enough to hurt anything. What ever falls on the ground the turtles will eat.
Turtles?
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thus said , worth every square inch of anyone’s bacyard. And something to introduce to kids, since it may be grown with little care in one’s yard, and totally pesticide-free.
how i wish coud grow them in southern nv…
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box turtles i surmise
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Those are autumn olive, goumi is bigger and hangs differently from the shrub, goumi also ripens in early summer in the midwest, in my iowa location-late june.
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Kleckner,
That’s not good they were sold by lawyer Nursery as eleagnus multiflora and not eleagnus umbellata http://www.lawyernursery.com/productinfo.aspx?productSpecies=Elaeagnus%20multiflora
http://www.lawyernursery.com/productinfo.aspx?productSpecies=Elaeagnus%20umbellata
Umbellata are an invasive in some places. If your 100% sure I will call for a refund.
Msg47,
We have lots of native box turtles who would do just about anything to get some fruit at eye level. They have to be watched or they will sneak in the melon patch and eat holes in the side of cantaloupe. They move from falling fruit to falling fruit here lol! They are pretty cute.
I looked up pictures on the internet and they appear to be eleagnus Umbellata. Thank you @kleckneroasis for pointing it out. No one grows either variety here so I’m not familiar with them beyond what I have read.
The nice thing is that you like their taste, so not all is lost.
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I also thought your pic looked like autumn olive, which grows wild around here. Last year I started eating them and thought they were pretty good tasting. My family doesn’t agree, unfortunately, but I liked it enough to plant a selected variety from Edible Landscaping this spring. Wild autumn olive are just starting to ripen here.
Planted a goumi too last season, but no fruit yet.
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Does anyone know where can I get some Goumi’s that are actually Goumi’s?
I agree. That look almost nothing like my goumi. They definitely much more strongly resemble autumn olives I have seen (mine haven’t produced yet, though I’ve eaten them previously from other sources).
Still beautiful f unit.
Check out Ken a’s selections from oikos nursery sometime:
http://oikostreecrops.com/products/berries-shrub-crops/fruiting-shrub-crops/red-cluster-autumnberry/
Planted this and the other variety he offers last year. Hopefully I will have a report next year on them.
Scott
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Raintree and One Green World have some and Burnt Ridge will be out at least until late Fall.Other nurseries may have better prices. Brady
http://www.raintreenursery.com/Berries/Goumi/
https://www.onegreenworld.com/Goumi/347/
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Thanks for the links and information!
My family thinks they taste more like pomegranite.