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dlbell

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1. Getting sweeter strawberries
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 11:35 AM
Jun 2023

My uncle had a large pick-your-own strawberry operation for years. His berries were known to be the sweetest around.

His secret? Every year, he or my cousins would go and taste a ripe berry from each plant. If the berry was sweet, they put a marker on the plant. The runners from that plant were then transplanted to new beds for next year's crop. The rest were simply ploughed under.



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