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http://www.heraldandnews.com/article...ews/local2.txt

A Friday night thunderstorm that
destroyed fields of strawberry seedlings in
Butte Valley, Tulelake, Malin and Yonna
Valley will likely cripple the strawberry
market nationwide.

California, which gets its strawberry plants
from Klamath and Siskiyou county
farmers, produces 75 percent of the nation's
strawberries.

"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Quoting from:
>
> http://www.heraldandnews.com/article...ews/local2.txt
>
> A Friday night thunderstorm that
> destroyed fields of strawberry seedlings in
> Butte Valley, Tulelake, Malin and Yonna
> Valley will likely cripple the strawberry
> market nationwide.
>
> California, which gets its strawberry plants
> from Klamath and Siskiyou county
> farmers, produces 75 percent of the nation's
> strawberries.

Maybe they can let the runners take root and make new plants, like we
peasants do all the time.

On Jul 11, 1:11 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Quoting from:
>
> http://www.heraldandnews.com/article...ocal_news/loca...
>
> A Friday night thunderstorm that
> destroyed fields of strawberry seedlings in
> Butte Valley, Tulelake, Malin and Yonna
> Valley will likely cripple the strawberry
> market nationwide.
>
> California, which gets its strawberry plants
> from Klamath and Siskiyou county
> farmers, produces 75 percent of the nation's
> strawberries.

The problem will come about *next* year. They grow the plants from
seed in northern California, then transplant to fields in central
California to grow the berries. It's a two year process from seed to
strawberry.

Susan B.

sueb wrote:

> The problem will come about *next* year. They grow the plants from
> seed in northern California, then transplant to fields in central
> California to grow the berries. It's a two year process from seed to
> strawberry.

That is only an issue for starting a strawberry field. Once they are
planted they send out runners with new plants and they will continue to
reproduce in the field. You only need to plant a strawberry field once.
The guy behind me planted a few acres of them about 10 years ago, and
another farmer around the corner has been harvesting the same plants for at
least 20 years.