Perils of the big box...

So I was at Sam's with the wife.
She buys some things there,mostly paper goods, vitamins and OTC meds
I udually have little interest in what is there, but that day they had edible  perennials for sale.
Among the grapes and raspberries there were packages of
Phoenix Tears goji berries, two plants per package, for dollars.
I bought them.
Here's some photos.:

That’s rather misleading.

I hope they grow though! Gojis can be finicky I recall from my experiments trying to grow them from seed.

It was a good lesson.
I just bought a bunch of bare root trees and bushes from my local  Food Not Lawns group.
They have great roots, like 18" long, and they cost 5 bucks each...
It was a group buy , so they hopefully made a profit.
I could have probably done as much myself, but I didn't, and they did, and I was glad to give them my money.

The organizing work that a good middleman does is important and valuable,and should be honored.
Selling puffed up bullshit instead of the product you are promising isn't important, valuable or honorable.
I hope to "get back" at Sam's by growing out and propagating these bushes, then getting them out into the world, by sale, trade or gifting.

The extra medium in the bag could provide moisture during transport...

Not bad!  If I were even remotely thinking about adding more berries, I would have scooped them up too!



Eric

Whoever supplies Home Despot with pepper seedlings is notorious for mislabeling them. From accounts around the web, it's like they're 50% wrong.

There're a lot more roots than the blueberry I bought.

Yeah the packaging on those big box plants is something else. Half the time you're paying for the pot and the label. Good shout on the Food Not Lawns group though, bare root from local growers is almost always better value and you actually know what you're getting.