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Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> The head gardener had a great knowledge of plants and different ways to grow 
> them. Maybe you have to have a love of things British to really appreciate 
> it. It was so interesting, and got me interested in more root crops, 
> hotframes, and forcing. They showed the head gardener building up the 
> hotframe, then putting potted strawberry plants in it to force. 


I've never successfully forced anything, but I've only tried with things 
like daffodils, tulips and poinsettias.  It was my understanding that 
forcing shortens the life span of the plant-not true?  Are they buying 
strawberry plants to force or propagating them?

B

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