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["Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>]

While I'm sure soil makes some difference, I have some alpine strawberries in 
pots, and others in the ground, and they taste pretty similar to me.

They taste much better if I wait until they are _really_ ripe before picking 
them.

I can only grow alpine strawberries. For reasons I don't understand the 
critters eat all my 'ordinary' strawberries but often don't notice the alpine 
ones. But far away the best-flavored strawberries I've bought at farmers' 
markets were 'earli-glow'.

-- GindaOn May 19, 2011 9:18 PM, Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com> 
wrote: 

It may be a result of the variety I chose ('Aromas') but the strawberry I

just harvested was only marginally better than a supermarket strawberry. I

just used potting soil. Haven't fertilized. Is there a fertilizer or

supplement I could be using that would help bump up the flavor? I have a

couple 'Mara des Bois' strawberries and they have a better taste so I'm sure

some of it is down to the variety you choose to grow but I imagine there

have to be some tricks I'm missing.



Megan Lynch



http://www.meganlynch.net



South Pasadena, CA Zone 9

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