Subj : Pick Your Own
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri Feb 10 2023 15:34:11

Hi Dave,

 DS> We stuck to picking black and red raspberries that they had trained
 DS> onto eight foot tall trestles.  Also blueberries where one held a
 DS> bucket under the branch and just raked the berries off the branch into
 DS> the bucket.

 DD> When I bought this house I thought I had spotted the distinctive
 DD> leaves of the strawberry in the side yard. What I had was (from the
 DD> WIKI)
 DD> "Indian-strawberry, or false strawberry,[4] often referred to as a
 DD> backyard strawberry, mainly in North America, is a flowering plant in
 DD> the family Rosaceae. It has foliage and an aggregate accessory fruit
 DD> similar to that of a true strawberry. It has yellow flowers, unlike
 DD> the white or slightly pink flowers of true strawberries. It is native
 DD> to
 DD> eastern and southern Asia, but has been introduced to many other areas
 DD> as a medicinal and an ornamental plant."

We bought our house in fall of 2014, had several surprises the next
spring. One was that the yard turned purple in late March/early April
from the violets and other small purple flowers. That was a nice
surprise. A few weeks later, I noticed strawberry blossoms, then fruit
so I tried one. Turned out to be the false strawberry. We've got quite a
bit of it in our yard, neighbors have some as well. We got new neighbors
about 3 years after we moved in; their first spring she asked me about
the strawberries so I told her that they are inedible.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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