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Subject: Re: [nafex] Your experience with Mara des Bois strawberry
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 14:27:52 +0000
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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Subject: Re: [nafex] Your experience with Mara des Bois strawberry
> 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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