Try These Strawberry Varieties
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | There are so many different varieties of strawberries. Not only that you can grow as a home gardener, but that you are purchasing, you probably don't even know it at a farm market or a grocery store. |
| 0:24.7 | So we are going to learn a little bit about them today. |
| 0:27.3 | We have Gerald Holmes back on the show. |
| 0:29.1 | He's the founding director of the Strawberry Center at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, also has a PhD in |
| 0:36.2 | Plant pathology from UC Riverside. |
| 0:38.8 | So we talked a little bit, Gerald, about wild strawberries, how the garden strawberries sort of came to be, but we didn't talk too much about the strawberry varieties that have come to be as a result of that that progression and maybe the strawberries |
| 0:54.4 | that are grown today. So what would a home gardener want to know just starting out |
| 0:59.8 | about like maybe this year a variety that exists. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, to know that there are literally thousands of varieties, not thousands |
| 1:09.8 | available, but over the course of, say, the last 100 years, there's really thousands of |
| 1:16.8 | varieties that have been developed and used in commercial farming. |
| 1:20.9 | It's hard, a lot of times I go to these home and garden centers and I see these |
| 1:24.1 | strawberry plants for sale. Often they're not even labeled as to what the |
| 1:28.7 | variety is. So people I think have this notion that well a strawberry is a strawberry and there aren't a lot of varieties but there are and they're very different in the way they taste and the way they grow and how easily they are to manage, how much, how many runners they might produce, |
| 1:46.6 | how many flowers, how productive they are, and one really important feature of all varieties |
| 1:52.0 | is what is their sensitivity to day length. |
| 1:55.9 | So you have what are called short day varieties and day neutral varieties. |
| 2:01.6 | The short day varieties are used in areas where we have a short season. |
| 2:06.2 | So Florida, for example, is another state that produces a lot of strawberries and they have a very |
| 2:11.7 | short season compared to California and they grow only the short season compared to California and they grow only the short day varieties. |
| 2:16.0 | And short day varieties I think of like a sprinter. |
| 2:20.0 | You wouldn't put the same kind of an athlete, same kind of a runner in a 100-yard |
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