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does anyone know if there is a place that keeps the national collection of strawberries/raspberries , or were it is located?, seems brogdale or associates keep, apples, pears, plums, currants, gooseberries etc etc, safe and sound, but cant find any info on who keeps the strawberry/raspberry collection, are they any less important, than the fruits mentioned?
with abit of a soft spot for strawberries/raspberries it does seem sometimes like omg its the last tree of such an apple, we,ll prop its poor branches up, trim its diseased parts out and store it safely in a national collection, while possibly many 100s of strawberries and raspberry varieties have gone the way of the dodo,
how do you balance up the importance of one fruit against another?,
suppose a lot depends on the grower/keeper of said fruit there growing
1, flavour ?,
2, history ?,
3, cropping per acerage?,
4, disease resistance ?
5, profit, ( a few years ago i saw 1 white fruiting pineberry type strawberry packaged individually selling for around $15 (£10 ?? A SINGLE BERRY !!!) in the asian market now that would be a strawberry worth growing, funny everyone i asked who tried them said they were bland and tasteless
as a chef its always been very important to me to go a step beyond and get the very best product/ingrediant (say apple) for a certain dish,and research its back history,as you know a certain apple what will do one job will not do another, so at the risk of causing fruit war, say a certain well known apple was struck down and went extinct, maybe a cooker being with B, i think there would be a lot of work to try and get it up and running again, while the strawberry whos main, not full use (canning, jamming etc) has been eating fresh, some of the very best eating strawberry types are now gone, worrying trend,
not exactly the same, but a few years ago i read about only a tiny % of our amazing british plums actually ever get to the supermarket, another shame.
stew
with abit of a soft spot for strawberries/raspberries it does seem sometimes like omg its the last tree of such an apple, we,ll prop its poor branches up, trim its diseased parts out and store it safely in a national collection, while possibly many 100s of strawberries and raspberry varieties have gone the way of the dodo,
how do you balance up the importance of one fruit against another?,
suppose a lot depends on the grower/keeper of said fruit there growing
1, flavour ?,
2, history ?,
3, cropping per acerage?,
4, disease resistance ?
5, profit, ( a few years ago i saw 1 white fruiting pineberry type strawberry packaged individually selling for around $15 (£10 ?? A SINGLE BERRY !!!) in the asian market now that would be a strawberry worth growing, funny everyone i asked who tried them said they were bland and tasteless
as a chef its always been very important to me to go a step beyond and get the very best product/ingrediant (say apple) for a certain dish,and research its back history,as you know a certain apple what will do one job will not do another, so at the risk of causing fruit war, say a certain well known apple was struck down and went extinct, maybe a cooker being with B, i think there would be a lot of work to try and get it up and running again, while the strawberry whos main, not full use (canning, jamming etc) has been eating fresh, some of the very best eating strawberry types are now gone, worrying trend,
not exactly the same, but a few years ago i read about only a tiny % of our amazing british plums actually ever get to the supermarket, another shame.
stew
