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Default What does Summer taste like?

jmcquown wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Jean B. wrote:
>>> Tracy wrote:

>>
>>>> There are few places near me for pick your own strawberries, but it
>>>> has been raining non stop for about a month - or at least it seems
>>>> so. They won't let you pick when the vines are wet.....I wonder what
>>>> it will do to the prices. The last time I called u-pick strawberries
>>>> were 5 dollars a quart.

>>
>>> I gather the strawberry crop has really suffered. Corn too.
>>> Hasn't the weather been ghastly? But then I think of folks who
>>> don't have water....

>>
>> I blame myself. I was bound and determined to pick strawberries this
>> year ... and the skies opened up and it rained for a month. Like
>> 27 days out of 30. I haven't seen any ads for strawberry picking.
>>
>> nancy

>
>
> Dempsey Farms just to the south of me (on the way to Hilton Head) has
> u-pick berries and other produce... but yes, it's been raining a lot for
> the last month. I understand they usually have some great strawberries,
> unfortunately I can't eat them. Those tiny seeds could send me back to
> the hospital.
>
> Jill


Whatever you do, don't eat them. We don't need another financial burden
to "share".