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[mark wessel <growyourown@earthlink.net>]

The aroma is incredible. I picked some and put the basket in my truck. When I 
got in the aroma was overwhelming. Flavor is was decent. Seemed like a pastry 
chefs dream fruit for finishing a dish. Foliar diseases plagued them but they 
seemed to carry on. There is a variety from france, Charlotte that has MDB 
for a parent. It is a day neutral with larger fruits, disease resistance and 
an intense candy strawberry flavor. It is our farm favorite. Fragrant as well.

> On Apr 8, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Sam Brungardt <sam739is@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info. That's pretty high praise for their aroma and flavor. 
> Wonder if anyone in the Midwest or Great Plains has tried them.
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> From: nafex <nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of Road's End Farm 
> <organic87@frontiernet.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 9:20 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nafex] Your experience with Mara des Bois strawberry
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> 
>> On Apr 5, 2019, at 6:13 PM, Melissa Kacalanos via nafex 
>> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
>> 
>> When I grew them in Ithaca, NY, zone 5, they were wonderfully flavorful, 
>> and small for modern strawberries. A friend who’s a real gourmet, with 
>> more refined sensibilities than mine, who didn’t normally stoop to eating 
>> modern strawberries, but ate only the alpine strawberries he grew himself, 
>> declared upon eating these that he would rip out his alpine strawberries 
>> and plant these instead.
>> 
>> Melissa
>> 
> 
> I'll have to look into those; they sound interesting.
> 
> Not sure whether I want to get into everbearers, though; I usually have a 
> lot to harvest as it is later on in the season.
> 
> 
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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