I am curious what your favorite strawberry is, and naturally what region you grow it in (strawberries are very, very local...) I guess I am simply stating I would be remiss to find out I missed a truly outstanding variety simply out of ignorance.Sparkle. (Finger Lakes NY, zone 5 most of the time; moderately heavy clay loam, in this particular spot; organic culture.) Earliglow and Jewel aren't bad, but Sparkle is the best I've grown here for flavor. It's a favorite for farmers' market customers; but almost never grown commercially, as it's too soft for a shipper and smaller than what's in style these days. The big hard shipping berries are generally tasteless, in my experience.
I grow 9 varieties of strawberries here, but for flavor nothing touches Fairfax an old 1923 cross and 1993 release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>Means they will flower and fruit at any day length. June bearers quit flowering (and therefore bearing) when the days start to shorten. Day neutrals will keep bearing all summer. I haven't found a day neutral I'm really happy with, either for flavor or for willingness to produce in varied conditions, but I didn't keep trying after the first few trials some years ago; and some people do like them.
Date: Mon Feb 17, 2003 08:55:52 AM US/Eastern
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit...
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Thanks for raising the topic of strawberries.......this spring I plan to finally get a patch in and I don't even know what 'day neutral' means or why. Del
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