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- To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:35:04 -0500
On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 03:07 AM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
Gang:My problem with strawberries is that they are so hard to grow. More precisely, it is so hard to grow the berries to maturity because they all get eaten. I think it's the chipmunks, but who knows.
Ok now on to a fruit that is delicious to eat, easy to grow, and offers so much for so little...Strawberries...
Curiously, I've had better luck with the alpines. Maybe their fruit is just less visible.
The best strawberries I've had were wild alpine strawberries picked in the alps. Bu the ambiance may have contributed to my dining experience. The next best berries I've had were Earliglows, sold in the farmers' market by the NYC World Trade Center. (I've been wondering if that's still running, or if they closed it down for good.) They were grown in upstate New York, by a merchant who grew a huge assortment of excellent fruit, all carefully brought to market. The earliglos are smaller and less red than their other varieties - certainly not the one's you'd automatically grab off the supermarket shelf. But so mach tastier.
Having despaired of fruit from my day-neutrals, I pulled them all out last year and planted earliglow. Maybe if they all ripen at once I'll get a few. If I try again, I guess I ought to try sparkle.
I wonder if the plant has died out, like the old tulips. Apropo the cloning discussion, some plants are just less long-lived than others, and can't be kept going clonallly forever. Although in the case of plants, it may have more to do with gradually acquiring too much disease load, rather than inherent mortality.
I grow 9 varieties of strawberries here, but for flavor nothing touches Fairfax an old 1923 cross and 1993 release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I simply have not known a better tasting strawberry. It is a bit tricky to grow, but I have found good success growing it in dappled shade, in rotting wood chips sweetened up with wood ash...they certainly are scrumptious little things...I am in the midwest outside of Chicago (in zone 4b (can you say burr)...
Ginda Fisher
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
del stubbs, 02/17/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
road's end farm, 02/17/2003
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[NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine,
John Bunker, 02/17/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine,
loneroc, 02/17/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine, Ray Thomas, 02/18/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine,
loneroc, 02/17/2003
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[NAFEX] Strawberries in Maine,
John Bunker, 02/17/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit..., Richard O'Barr, 02/17/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit..., Betty Mayfield, 02/18/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
list, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
John Van Hazinga, 02/21/2003
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list, 02/21/2003
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Keith Benson, 02/21/2003
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RE: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
Bruce Hansen, 02/21/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit..., Keith Benson, 02/21/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit..., Thomas Olenio, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
list, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
Keith Benson, 02/21/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit..., road's end farm, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
Keith Benson, 02/21/2003
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RE: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
Bruce Hansen, 02/21/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit..., Keith Benson, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
Keith Benson, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
list, 02/21/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...,
John Van Hazinga, 02/21/2003
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