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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>, nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Pineberry
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:51:37 -0500

Interesting. I've never seen white wild strawberries.

Considering the pest problem it seems to be causing you, maybe I should resist the temptation to ask for some.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Jan 19, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Melissa Kacalanos wrote:

Sorry, central NY state, Ithaca, zone 5. We're neighbors, Rivka.


Melissa



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From: Road's End Farm
To: Melissa Kacalanos
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Pineberry


Melissa, where are you?

You may have stated this in some other post, but I can't keep track. (If you use a signature for your email, it can help to put general location info in the signature.)



-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Jan 19, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Melissa Kacalanos wrote:

Sarah and all,

Some of the wild strawberries around here are white. (This means that the local creatures think that white means ripe when it comes to strawberries, and eat my cultivated strawberries before they get anywhere near ripe.) If you like, Sarah, I could save seeds from these white strawberries this June and send them to you. (I could also send plants to people in the US who want them.) The plants and berries are bigger than the usual Fragaria vesca (which we also have in abundance as a lawn plant, with tiny red berries.) I think this white-fruited strawberry might be the local version of F. virginiana. The plants send out lots of runners. When ripe, it's easy to pull the fruit off the calyx, so they're definitely different from this pineberry, which is shown with the calyx attached in the pictures. They're tasty, but I like my 'Mara de Bois' better.

I'm also growing NW 90054-37 = PI 641196, a "black" (actually disappointingly maroon) strawberry I got from Corvallis.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/53581500/catalogs/fradark.html

It's a nice strawberry, just not as distinctive as I was hoping. US folks, let me know if you'd like a plant of that, as it's sending out lots of runners.

Melissa
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