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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] strawberry flavor
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:22:21 -0700


That's a lot of strawberries! If it's a short season type, I'd like to know
what variety.

paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com
http://largocreekfarms.com
http://medicinehill.net

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On 2/14/2005 at 12:19 PM James H. Corey wrote:

>I grow 9000 strawberry plants organically every year, and I can tell you
>that the one's in the supermarket are picked long before they are ripe,
and
>unlike a tomato or a banana, a strawberry will not ripen much once it is
>picked. Sure it may be red, but as far as being ripe, they are often far
>from it. I encourage my u-pickers to look for a strawberry that is red
all
>the way to the top, and the seeds are "popping" out a bit - then it is
>ripe. The variety does have something to do with it as well, some
>varieties just don't taste that good. I have had trial sections of
several
>varieties in the past, and have decided on just one that I, and my
>customers prefer.
>
>Pam
>Rose Hill Plantation
>
>road's end farm wrote:
>
>> On Feb 13, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Tradingpost wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I don't know strawberriy growing, and I'm wondering what they've done
>> > to
>> > make supermarket strawberries so tasteless. Is it the bred varieties
>> > or the
>> > harvesting, fertilizer, or what?
>>
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