On May 1, 6:53*am, The Cook > wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:10:05 -0400, "James Silverton"
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> > gloria.p *wrote *on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:58:26 -0600:
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> >> James Silverton wrote:
> >>> Hello All!
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> >>> Today, I bought a pack of good looking and not too expensive
> >>> strawberries from California. They are immense! I've seen
> >>> smaller apples than some of them :-)
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> >> But are they ripe all the way to the center and sweet and
> >> juicy? Those huge ones aren't always.
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> >No, I guess they are not red all the way thro. I will let them sit in
> >the fridge after sprinkling some sugar. It is very difficult to find
> >cartons of completely ripe strawberries that *are not beginning to rot,
> >especially the hidden ones.
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> Look for Florida strawberries. *They are usually better than
> California. *Locals should be ripe in your area soon. *We just picked
> a small handful from our garden yesterday. *They are completely ripe
> and sweet with no sugar.

I've got them in both back yards, and in the community garden.
They're about quarter size so far. They are easy to grow.

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> Susan N.

--Bryan