DirtyHippyBastard
DirtyHippyBastard's JournalFirst picking of "Mara Des Bois" strawberries
I planted 60 of these in a 5 feet by 12 feet raised bed on my driveway last spring. We got a few berries in late summer, but this is the first picking of any substance.
A quart of some of the most fragrant tasty strawberries is, umm, was, sitting in the kitchen. They are either shrinking rapidly or someone is grabbing a few each time they walk by (I suspect my wife and son). I was planning on eating them on a piece of lemon pound cake, but maybe the next quart will make it that far.
The berries are smaller than the ones from the grocer, but that is more than made up for in their delicate sweetness.
The bed they are growing in was inter-cropped with garlic and bush beans while the plants were developing and spreading last year, but this year they are growing so close together that it doesn't seem practical to plant companions with them, even though a few garlic seemed to have slipped past me last autumn.
I will most likely thin them to a plant every 6 inches this fall, and pass the ones I dig up on to friends.
A DHB recommended variety
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