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

Any idea where to get Charlotte strawberry plants? They are sold out
everywhere online. Is there a legal issue, or are they just popular?

-Pete

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 9:46 PM mark wessel <growyourown@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
> >> 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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