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  • From: dwoodard@becon.org
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Fairfax strawberry, was Re: Strawberry Mulch
  • Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:45:11 -0500 (EST)

Topgun, some members have been trying to find Fairfax without success.

How long ago did you buy plants of Fairfax, and from whom? Do you know if they still have it? Do you still have it?

How do you rate Fairfax for flavour, productivity and ease of growing under your conditions, compared to other cultivars you have grown? I
ask because the comments I have seen extolling Fairfax as the best of strawberries (in flavour, but not as productive or disease resistant
as many others) were made a few decades ago, and I wonder whether it
still stands out when compared to modern cultivars.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Niagara Peninsula


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, O'Barr, R. D. wrote:

I am trying Gurney's whopper this year. Anyone have any luck with it? I have
tried and liked Surecrop, Catskill, and Fairfax here and all have done well
after a season of removing all blooms and runners first.
I am having a lot of trouble with the twig girdler on my oriental
persimmons. Is it the same girdler that attacks pecan and hickory, i.e., the
hickory twig girdler? One branch clipped had 14 persimmons and the other
branch on the same tree about the same number. They are still cutiing limbs
on Nov 1 as the branch still had green leaves and I check most every day.
Topgun
Zone 7

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