"Chas Hurst" wrote in message
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"Doc" wrote in message
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Okay, maybe they aren't what you call wild strawberries. We called them
that when we were kids. These things taste flat, and don't really look
like a regular strawberry. They are red and small about the size of the
tip of the little finger. They have what appears to be seeds on the
outside of the berry kinda like stubble that easily brush off the berry.
There are a few of them growing below the trees in the neighbors yard
about 50 or more feet away. The transplanted berries were regular
strawberries not at all like these. However now the berries have changed
since the were moved. they are completely different although the plant
is the same one that produced the good berries. what happened? If I
plant new ones, will it happened again. I tried google but could not find
any reference to this problem.

UNK

The wild strawberry I'm familiar with has a great and concentrated
strawberry taste. The plant being discussed here is probably the Barren
strawberry, the fruit of which is considered inedible.
Wild strawberries have white flowers and the fruit hangs down on the stem.
Barren strawberries have yellow flowers and the fruit stands up on the
stem.



Sounds like this is what I have now. I googled brarren strawberries and it
is mostly described as a ground cover. The question remains why or how did
regular strawberries change? I could not find anything about regular
strawberries changing to the barren type.

Doc





"Stubby" wrote in message
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Strawberry cultivation is a whole art. There are lots of tricks. An
old guy(!) told me things such as you have cull out 1/3 of the plants
every year and use the strongest runners to generate the replacements.
When and how you fertilized has a lot to do with the taste. And you
can't let weeds take over the walk ways or they will compete for the
food.

When I was growing up we always prized "wild strawberries" for their
intense flavor in spite of their small size.

I believe you'll be able to find some good advice through Google or your
local library. Try to filter the opinion from the fact. Good luck!


Doc wrote:
I had some strawberries in a garden at growing in a garden at a house I
was renting out. One of my tenants had planted them. The were large
delicious and spreading themselves quickly. I transplanted several of
the to my new house. The first year they did not do much, which I kind
of suspected would happen.

This year they took off. First the plants grew tall and had a flower.
I saw bees around them and figured they were being pollinated. They
stared sending out spreaders which was great. However all the berries
are the small tasteless things what we used to call wild strawberries.

What happened to my berries? Can I do anything to save them? If I have
to replant new strawberries how do I keep this from happing again?