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["Ray Thomas" <RayNMary@msn.com>]

Mr. Bunker,
>From the thawing Chesterfield, Virginia zone 7. Yea!
 Are you recommending them then for this area? What do you cover your
Strawberries with? Straw, leaves, Alfalfa hay? Maybe I should be asking how
large is your strawberry patch or is it a huge PYO patch? Some of those
items would be cost prohibitive. Would love to know when to order and where.
Do you replant each year or let the runners go? Also, are these everbearing,
day-neutral or June bearing? I do love to make jams, conserves and
strawberry any way there is to eat them. So to me taste is paramount!
We moved here from 9B so the whole scene is different from the Gulf Coast
where we had a Mini Orchard in the back yard. Mostly,  Citrus. And Yes, my
Mexican Lime dropped all of its' leaves when I brought it in the house. I
feel the change in temperature and moisture is responsible for that though.
It will leaf out again when I wrestle it back outside.
Thanks for your help!
Ray and Mary


----- Original Message -----
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine


> Ray,
>
> We recommend mulching strawberries in Maine.  I would add to the various
> descriptions about Sparkle.  Not only is it the best processing berry, it
is
> also the best tasting fresh berry.  I will check into Fairfax. I think I
> should be able to locate some plants.
>
> There are many sources of Sparkle plants.  We also sell them.
>
> John Bunker
> Fedco
> Palermo Maine
>
> Snowing hard today and +6 degrees.
>
>
>
> on 2/18/03 9:59 AM, Ray Thomas at RayNMary@msn.com wrote:
>
> > Would like to know where I could get some of these old strawberries
> > (Sparkle,Fairfax?)--ones that have divine taste not woody and tasteless.
Do
> > they grow in zone 7?
> > Did the gentleman up in Maine cover his Strawberries with Straw? I found
> > that the ones that got covered and are now covered with Ice and Snow are
> > still big healthy plant and the others are very small and are going to
have
> > to work much harder to come back. Leaf cover works well too!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>
> > To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine
> >
> >
> >> In Wisconsin and Minnesota I have eaten none better than Sparkle.  I
also
> >> grow Earl, and find that while quite good, it doesn't match Sparkle.
> >>
> >> Although I haven't had one for a while, I remember Kent strawberries as
> >> being the most flavorful out of a farmer's field that included Honeoye
and
> >> Annapolis.  Kent doesn't match sparkle by a long shot, but would be
worth
> >> trying.
> >>
> >> Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI  USDA zone 3
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "John Bunker" <jbunker@gwi.net>
> >> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:38 PM
> >> Subject: [NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine
> >>
> >>
> >>> Just for the record, in Massachusetts and in Maine Sparkle is the best
> >>> flavored berry I've eaten.   None other I've tried even come close.
> >>>
> >>> John Bunker
> >>> Fedco
> >>> Palermo Maine
> >>>
> >>> Where the strawberries are under 2 feet of snow.
> >>>
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Subject: [NAFEX] Fairfax (was Strawberries)
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Fairfax does still (supposedly) exist at the germplasm 
respository in Corvallis:

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acc_search.pl?accid=FairFa*%3A%3Afragaria

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N    75° 51'W
~650 ft elevation
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Sparkleberry is an AKA for Farkleberry, AKA  Whortleberry--(Vaccinium
arboreum). The Sparkle strawberry doesn't do well where Sparkleberry
grows. Probably not miserable enough for it where Santa Claus  rides a
pick-up truck, not a sleigh. Ho, Ho, Ho.

"Time's fun when you're having flies"--Kermit the Frog
Doc Lisenby
Zone 7/8