Yes. Be warned they are extremely invasive, the birds fancy the berries, next thing they are everywhere. Ours were well established in zone 3, branches easily grew four to five feet each season even after being hacked down.

The berries can be dried or frozen for long term storage. Thay taste like a mix between a tomato and nanking cherry.

My relatives have a hedge of them in the BC okanagan, it is well over eight feet tall.

Did you only plant a single plant ? And how productive is it.

My goji are firecracker dynamite and "hardy" variety. The first two are rated zone 4 the "hardy" one is rated zone 2.

I want to produce a lot of them in a small space. They will grow amongst some other edible plants hopefully they are not that invasive .

The firecracker is loaded with fruit the other two will not fruit this year.

We had at least 10 plants in a 20 foot row. How many plants it originally started as I do not know as they were there from beyond my time. I'm sure as long as you can keep an eye on them they'll be fine. When left unchecked I find the fast growing stems arch over and root themselves, or berries fall on the ground and grow from seed. We would harvest about 6-8 ice cream buckets of berries depending on the year.

I don't have a pic of the zone 3 hedge, but here are my relative's hedge in the okanagan, behind the cedars. The brown fence behind it is 5 feet tall. They were planted about 10 years ago.

I had some growing 10 years ago and had berries for some years but the bush eventually died out, there are several species, not sure what I had but wasn't invasive at all. Last year I put some in again.

Prairie Northrose,..do you know which one you grew.

I do not know exactly what variety we were growing. The most prolific bushes had berries were elongated and more pointed than some others. This image looks just like them: http://files.dekanius.webnode.sk/200000016-7e6967f639/ww.jpg

My google search is saying these may be reffered to as tibetan or himalayan goji berries but this term sounds like it is not scientific and otherwise surrounded with propaganda.

Konrad try firecracker. From all my readings it's the most prolific producing cold variety. They taste like medicine fresh but I am not eating them for taste

I spend hundreds of dollars a year on super fruits ,powders and such. Goji are the most expensive hands down more than maqui or Acia. I even think they might be better for you than acia also. If they grow here long term it's a huge bonus for me. I was sceptical few years ago when I started seeing them in stores sold as hardy for praries

Firecracker started producing instantly

Thank you Northrose!
Matt, I put some firecracker in last year...they had lots of berries but this year not doing all that great, some flowered, then green berries but fall off when orange,...any idea?

In Grande prairie, AB (Zone 2a -3b) I have found a couple goji bushes growing in someone's back alley... They're about 5 feet tall and have spread about the same distance. I asked the renters of the property what they knew about them and they hadn't a clue as they had moved in after the gojis were planted and they have neglected them for a couple of years. I'm quite convinced that they do well in poor soil and drought conditions... I just planted some out at the farm a couple weeks ago. Looking forward to seeing them take over as a fruit producer / garden wind-break :)

I find the firecracker not all that hardy,...they been freezing back somewhat every year,...which one's did you put in, are there any berries on the ones you found,..a picture would be nice. You can plant seeds from them.

This is dynamite and these berries were not even flowers last week

@mattpf You've got quite a few yellowed leaves - do you know what's causing that? Overwatering perhaps? I've got the same problem with mine.

That is a separate plant I just put in. It was dry in the pot but on clearance for a few bucks at superstore just thought I'd try it.

My family (we're Chinese) hvae been growing goji in our yards in Calgary and in Edmonton and they basically grow like weeds. I have no idea where my grandparents originally got them from or what variety they are. Just as a random note that I feel like most people don't know: you can eat the leaves. We put ours in soup.

That's good to know Amanda just in case the plant that I put in doesn't want to produce berries.

There are cultivars which only produce leaves.

It seems my fire cracker produces twice a year, the late one's, [right now] are pretty loaded with berries.

They are really good in shakes fresh like that.

There is still ripe berries . My fall gold raspberry are starting to ripen the second batch of the year. I never thought these would have finished lol