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Black Strawberries
Martin Brown wrote:
I did try growing black tomatoes either last year or the year before. They tasted roughly like wet cardboard and with a texture to match. They were not quite black either - more dirty unappetising brown I have found the same on both counts. Black cherry were the small ones, which were mostly tasteless, and prone to splitting. I am trying the last of my White Wonder seeds this year. But my attempts to grow anything but tomatoey coloured tomatoes has met with mostly disaster. We got some ok Cream Sausage tomatoes, but then the plants came down with blight before anything else was even fruiting. Yellow alpine strawberries are OK though a bit small and have the distinct advantage that birds don't recognise them are ripe fruit. I don't like alpine strawberries, but the white ones seem to be a lot nicer than the red. The red ones taste gritty. The white ones were a lot more palatable. I wonder if they're good for jam. White strawberry jam may go down well with the gardening club show (as a change from my aronia berry and redcurrant) |
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Black Strawberries
Martin Brown wrote:
The yellow ones are quite fun for a novelty. Black was a bridge too far. I found most of hte yellow ones tasteless and squishy. Maybe I was unlucky and they would taste OK in a sunnier year. Not in my experience. I have to net soft fruit if I want to eat any of them. Raspberries are a notable exception as the birds find the stems too flexible to land on. The only thing the birds (touch wood) tend to feast on are the redcurrants. And only the early ones (we have 2 bushes, inheritted on the allotment, and one fruits about a month or more earlier than the other. If it isn't netted it is stripped bare very quickly) |
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