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Posted by cedar_WA z8 (My Page) on Tue, May 10, 05 at 23:43
| I have just discovered Mara des bois strawberry and was curious if anyone has experience growing or selling this newest gourmet berry. |
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RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| I did a google and read about this, sounds interesting, hopefully not a lot of hype. Do you know of any sources of plants in the United States. Mark |
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| i found these at my local nursery this year, and am trying them in stackable pots. they are purported to be very fruitful, and i believe it because they are already covered in blooms and baby berries. i have one that is just turning red, i can't wait to taste it! the plants seem resistant to disease, and are growing like crazy. more as they develop! |
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| These taste wonderful. I had them in France several years ago. Does anyone have a source of plants??? |
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| All I know is that the regular Alpine Strawberries that I've grown from seed taste like berry flavored Koolaid - very fun to grow but not a ton of berries per plant. |
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| i googled this "Mara des bois" strawberry usa plants and this looks possible http://www.darbonne.fr/eng/liens_en.htm they may have a growing nursery in the usa
i emailed and asked
mark |
Here is a link that might be useful: try here
on second look not so good
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could not get meessage thru and explored web site does not look like any production un the usa
sorry |
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| gardenbuddha and cedar: If you visit the place you got these plants, could you inquire their source? The plants seem to be available here and there in the US, but no one can seem to say who handles them. (Apparently they can't be ordered from sources outside they country.) |
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| is there any chance of finding this berry, i really want some. google does not turn up anything . any one have a plant locator?? mark |
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| Is it a variety of Fraises des bois? The description sounds similar -- small, intensely flavored fruits. If so, White Flower Farm has them as plants. Expensive, but they do sound good. |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/cgi-local/search.pl?text=fraises+des+bois&dosearch.x=0&dosearch.y=0&dosearch=Go
Fraises des bois
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| Woops, I don't think I gave the right link. Try this one: |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/29201-product.html
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| No, the Mara des Bois is a bigger, standard-sized berry. Taste is similar though, I think. Hines Nurseries from California claims to have them, but they have a really lousy web site aimed more at investors than customers (making one wonder how they expect to get investors), and you can't get much information from it -- like where their nurseries are, and so on. They are suppliers for other retail nurseries, I think, so maybe an e-mail to them could get some info. I didn't have the energy at the time I was trying to decode their site. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Hines Nurseries
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| Is it too much difficulty to get it from Canada? Or is it even possible? There's a nursery there that has a minimum order of 100 plants. They're near the bottom of the page in the following link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Luc Lareault Nursery
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i sent them an e mail and asked if they ship to usa
mark |
got a response!!
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SORRY BUT SHIPPING LIVE PLANTS TO USA IS VERY COSTLY FOR SUCH SMALL
QUANTITIES CANADAIN COURRIER CO. REFUSE TO HANDLE THEM SO WE MUST SEND THEM
OUT BY REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT AND MINIMUM SHIPPING COST ARE BASED ON ONE
FULL SKID OF PLANTS. at least they responeded. i am going A Whole New World in Everbearing Strawberries Everbearing strawberries have been with us for years — but not like Tribute! Before other berries set fruit, they must have lots of light over long days. But Tribute blooms and sets fruit without regard to the length of days and nights.
With Tribute, you pick your first crop in early spring. Additional crops are ready to pick at approximately six week intervals. Best of all, the "drop off" in berry size and quality that’s typical of other varieties doesn’t happen with Tribute. In late summer and fall, berries increase in size and quality, making a whole new world of pick-ur-own and home plantings. Test plantings in milder climates have yielded crops as late as Thanksgiving.to try this in the hoop house mark |
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| You can ask a local nursery that already buys from Hines to order you some plants. |
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I live in the Rhone Alpes area in France. If you want and the law allows I can send you seeds of local varieties.
We wanted to grow some strawberry in a container and I was very disappointed to find out Mara des bois is not so good at least in my case as it hates calcium in the soil. For any other reason it seems nice but our water and soil are very very hard so it would be not recommended. For further explanations on French strawberry copy paste in a translator page
http://jardihaie.free.fr/potager/fraisier/fraise.htm The google group recommended the Gento, rebunda and quatre saisons varieties as early, productive and good tasting. I will buy some gento tomorrow and my quatre saisons seeds didn't germinate yet (the seed may have been too old and not germinate at all) after 3 weeks of planting. If you have any advice please post. They are my first strawberries and I only know what's available on forums. Thanks |
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| I've meant to post this for the last couple of years. . . . When I first found this thread, I ordered the Mara des Bois from Trish and these are some of the best strawberries I've ever had. Here in Colorado (zone 5) they've done really well and all the members of our culinary gardening group have replanted their strawberry beds with them! They're day neutral so they even continue to produce indoors in winter! Thanks Trish! The only other place to buy them that I know about is White Flower Farm which charges an mere $125 for a strawberry jar with NINE plants. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mara des Bois
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| noursefarms.com have this variety if anyone is still interested. I plan on trying some this Spring. |
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| Miller Nursery carries the Mara des Bois strawberry plants. |
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I just purchased plants of Mara de Bois strawberries from Burpee Catalog in Pennsylvania. Have strawberry jars to plant them in and will also put some directly in the garden bed.
I am looking forward to harvesting them:"Little jewels, as vibrant as any ruby..." |
RE: Mara des bois strawberry?
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| I just received live plants from Burpee. I found them in their "heirloom" section and am looking forward to growing them this summer. They are supposed to be the closest thing to wild strawberries without foraging through the countryside. I'm excited to see how they come out. |
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