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Disappointing strawbs
My faithful old strawberry patch had reached the end of its useful, so last year I dug it up and established a new bed in a different part of the garden. To avoid a sudden glut of fruit I went for one of the perpetual varieties which crop throughout the season, eventually choosing Maria Des Bois from Ken Muir Nurseries. They are just coming into fruit and both the taste and texture are, to put it mildly, extremely disappointing. The fruits are soft and pappy. And far from the 'aromatic flavour of the woodland strawberry' as promised by the catalogue the taste is bland and watery. Not what I was hoping for at all. My partner suggests this could all be down to the recent very wet weather but I'm not convinced; I'm more inclined to ditch the lot and start again. So, does anyone have any experience of this particular variety or can put in a good word for it? And if I do decide to dig the whole lot up, what other varieties do people recommend. -- |
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