Gang:My problem with strawberries is that they are so hard to grow. More precisely, it is so hard to grow the berries to maturity because they all get eaten. I think it's the chipmunks, but who knows.
Ok now on to a fruit that is delicious to eat, easy to grow, and offers so much for so little...Strawberries...
I wonder if the plant has died out, like the old tulips. Apropo the cloning discussion, some plants are just less long-lived than others, and can't be kept going clonallly forever. Although in the case of plants, it may have more to do with gradually acquiring too much disease load, rather than inherent mortality.
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. I simply have not known a better tasting strawberry. It is a bit tricky to grow, but I have found good success growing it in dappled shade, in rotting wood chips sweetened up with wood ash...they certainly are scrumptious little things...I am in the midwest outside of Chicago (in zone 4b (can you say burr)...
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