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["Harrick, Barbara" <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com>]

Hi Bill--we had the awful drought last year here too in Northern VA that
followed the early cold snap.  My strawberries dried out by the end of
summer--since last year was their 4th year I went ahead and pulled them.

Can you send any of the plants out for testing to confirm or dispute
virus at play?

Barbara Harrick, zone 6b

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:50:33 -0500
From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Strawberries
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Maybe it was merely the effects of the draught here last year, but some
of the plants were small with small dry berries. I really should see
what they are going to do this year, and water appropriately if the
weather is dry again. The plants have been in place for about 5 years.

I did pull some of the runty looking plants and set new runners to root
in their place last year. Maybe the plants were just getting old.

Bill

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