Which strawberries would you buy?

Cheers F8L!

Godiva, you've gotta tell me more about these figs. I'm really keen to have a go but I'm not sure it will work in CO. The winters are too harsh, I think, for growing a plant outside. However, I'd like to add more plants indoors and I thought perhaps I could grow a small fig tree inside. The question is, is this feasible and will I get any figs out of the deal. It sounds like the common fig is the kind I would want. I've heard that the common fig is self-pollinating so I'm assuming that I don't need wasps, , to help out. Am I off the mark with that?

 

I'm not sure if they can be parthenocarpic (the production of fruit without first fertilizing an ovule) or not but it would be kinda weird to have a fig with no seeds. *scratches head* Then again, bananas and watermellon can be and those are quite good.

Can someone help us here? lol

 

I know you can do dwarf citrus indoors, but I've never heard of a dwarf fig. You need to get edible figs. Not all common figs are edible. They are all members of the ficus family.

My mother refers to one as white figs but they're pale green and the interior is light pink and very juicy. I like the turkey figs which are a dark purple, almost black. The outside is a bit leathery. The inside is dark pink, almost purple and if perfectly ripe slightly moist.

Fig trees can get pretty big so I don't know how suitable they are for inside or for containers.

They do best in a mediterranean climate but here is a nursery in Massachusetts that sells them and says they can be grown indoors in pots. Why they play French music, I have no idea.

 

I'm turned off by strawberries in general due to their labor intensiveness (their need to be hand picked). I don't know how smaller, organic and local farmers do it but I am sure they aren't of the same caliber as a Driscolls farm. On one hand, hand picking saves fuel etc etc on the other it either support illegal immigration (if you are really opposed to that) or beats down and takes advantage of its inexhaustible workforce.

But what are you going to do?

I've tried to raise strawberries on my own but had a similar pest problem! Squirrels mostly.