Re: [nafex] Your experience with Mara des Bois strawberry

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:
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> 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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>> On Apr 5, 2019, at 6:13 PM, Melissa Kacalanos via nafex <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Melissa
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> I'll have to look into those; they sound interesting.
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> 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.
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> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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