📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Geri9, you would need quite a few more than one plant to get a decent feast of strawberries. We live in Ontario, Canada, about an hour from Toronto, on a beef and pork farm also cropping about 1,000 acres. Back when our 4 sons were at home, I had an enormous garden to feed all those enormous hollow legs and it included of course a long row of strawberries. Ontario strawberries, (maybe because we are north of the States) though smaller than those of the States, are so much sweeter to those coming to us from the States. To be fair.....likely when you get them in the States locally and fresh without the travel time, they are better than what we get from the States in our stores. Since the boys are grown, I've given up that enormous garden and now just go, like everyone else, to the the 'pick your own' farms in the neighborhood but still make those mazing pies with the glaze and fresh berries. I often wonder while enjoying the wonderful summertime fruits, how can God improve on these delectable fruits in our heavenly home? Colors and music are supposedly more intense and brilliant than here....Maybe there will be some of the same fruits we enjoy here....hope at least there are strawberries and raspberries (also had a long patch of those back in the early days). Looking forward to having a younger body so that in the picking of them I don't end up with that aching back. Maybe we won't even have to bend down to pick them! I went outside to check on my wild strawberries and they are all gone! 🙁 Some rodent or bird … enjoyed an early morning snack because they were still there at midnight when I put out the trash. Oh … well … at least I can say I enjoyed the pretty flowers. I reckon I will have to wait for the millennium kingdom to experience the taste of wild berries. B-) It is very mild here in the winter (usually no lower than 28F) so the strawberries thrive here. They overwinter just fine. I remember picking wild strawberries when I lived in the far north as a child. (61 degrees N) Those were the sweetest strawberries I remember. They were very small but tasted amazing. On a side note, the jackfruit have been amazing this year. Tastes just like Juicy Fruit bubble gum. 😉 You’re so fortunate to have fresh strawberries at your finger tips. Do the same plants grow back each year or die in the winter? I can kick myself for not buying a strawberry plant earlier this spring because the price of strawberries is untouchable … so expensive $5.00 for a small package. I did find a wild strawberry plant in the woods and transplanted it in my garden because I liked the daisy white flowers. I keep feeding it miracle grow and it now has 8 berries growing on it about the size of dimes. I’m curious to see how the wild berries taste vs. the store kind … Same here … looking forward to all the delicious fruits and “most” veggies in the next life. Meanwhile the watermelon (2 so far) continues to be tasteless. :negative: Never had this problem when growing up … all the summer fruit seemed to be always good … I really miss those days. I found the info in the 5 Doves that BGKimbr posted this morning. By Chance and the letter is called “Possible Rapture Dates” I just noticed he was quoting Barry Awe’s theory.
