They are from the farmer’s market and I think we will actually eat all of them instead of letting them rot in the fridge like we normally do.
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> posts vibrant strawberries
Alright, boys, kill 'em.
Tomatoes and strawberries are great from a road side market or home grown. Grocery store ones are always shit
Do you have any other suggestions for stuff that’s much better if it’s home grown? I’m going to build a small garden soon. The only other thing already on my list is some greens and maybe bell peppers, but that was a nostalgia request from my partner.
Edit: All these suggestions have changed my planned garden from 8x4 to 8x16. The missus will be pleased.
Tomatoes, strawberries, onions, carrots, peppers, and green beans were what I recall growing as a kid and they were all vastly superior to grocery stores.
We also had a local farm which was comparable to home grown nearby, which was nice when we had the occasional bad crop.
Carrots. Good carrots are so much sweeter than story bought.
Irregularly shaped and colored carrots are almost always better than the uniform monstrosities sold in stores.
Cucumbers! I like store bought cucumbers just fine but fresh cucumbers are not just inoffensive crunch water. They have a melon taste which is sublime.
With all these suggestions I might need to build two planters after all!
Green beans.
GreenYellow wax beans you mean.
Personally I find home grown potatoes delicious but they are a lot of work.
We usually planted green onions, and various herbs too.
Because the ones at the grocery store are bred to be both big and shelf stable as long as possible whereas home grown it’ll spend at most a few days in the fridge before it begins to rot
The strawberries in the store seem to rot within a few days as well in my experience.
Sure but how long did it take for the berries to make it from the farm to your fridge?
Never had the rot issue at home, the grocery store ones just turned to mealy graining mush and mold quickly where we are.
I’m always surprised how Americans just routinely can only buy crap strawberries from supermarkets. Enormous, rock hard and basically green.
Where I live supermarkets get them from farmers in the area - when the season is right, of course, and they taste lovely.
You need to have farmers growing large amounts of strawberries close by. Which is not always the case for people living in a city. And you can buy such berries direct from the farmers. Either at their farm or in the various farmer’s markets that exist.
They are not really good, this is what a normal strawberry looks like. Those giant white things at the grocery are just utter trash and should be illegal to be called a strawberry.
They are not really good
Damn, does OP know you are in their house eating their strawberries?
Shhhh. Don’t ruin it for me. I brought whipped cream.
I am happy to share the fruit, I do not wish to share my address.
My thought as well, looks like a normal good tasting strawberry? Or are they not normally like this in the US?
They usually look like this, or even MUCH bigger, and nearly flavourless.
Okay that looks downright bad. I thought perhaps the one from OP look a bit wee dark and soft but what is that thing?
My understanding is ethylene gas is used to ripen strawberries artificially, hence the white center. No idea how they get them large, but I’m assuming they inhibit the ripening stage through GMO or some other means, letting it grow to crazy sizes, then use the gas when they reach the desired size.
They are GMO in the sense they were selectively bred and specifically selected to look like that. Even OP’s lovely strawberries have been artificially bred and selected to be what they are. That’s what land grant ag departments do. It just took a bit longer.
It’s what humans have done for millennia.
Out of curiosity, what do you define GMO as?
I meant genetically altered in a lab. Regardless, I was just guessing. Looking online it seems the FDA hasn’t approved any GMO strawberries, so they must have been selectively bred to be enormous.
Things have gotten pretty bad over here. Our society is crumbling and the fruit in our stores is not good.
But… I’ve had big strawbs that taste amazing?
Tried a variety called Albion at the farmers market once time and saw god
(Flavor god, not drugs god)
I have a stand near my house that grows Albions exclusively and that’s where I get all of my strawberries from. Simply amazing.
ooo yeah that was my favorite varietal at the strawberry festival last year
Now I know what seeds to look for next year when I try growing some strawberries!
When I have too many and they are starting to turn on me, I toss what’s left with some chamomile from the garden in a pot with some sugar and boil it down to a strawberry sauce for ice cream or whatever
I’m berry jealous
You know what they say: “When life hands you strawberries, put them on a pizza.”
I don’t think anyone has ever said that to me.
i think moondoggie just did
GOTTEM
pro tip soak the berries in a 3:1 solution of water to 5% vinegar. it keeps them fresh for much longer and works for raspberries/blackberries/blueberries too.
https://www.southernliving.com/put-berries-in-vinegar-11977928
The last time I bought strawberries from the local grocery store, they fully molded over within 24 hours. I haven’t bought any berries since that day due to that. I hadn’t heard of this method, so perhaps I’ll have to give this a shot. Thanks for sharing.
Because they were picked straight from the plant when they were actually ripe, instead of being artificially ripened during transport.
Aww yeeah. It’s that time of the season when the good ones get through for some reason.
I always hull the entirety of a fresh batch of strawberries and put them in the fridge with a splash of simple syrup to stop them from continuing to ripen.
strawberries that are great with no cream or other sweetner are just great. Unfortunately they often need something.
