[nafex] Re: Strawberries for clay

["Margie Luffman" <luffmanm@EM.AGR.CA>]

Hello Doug. Protem and Senator Dunlap strawberries are both available from my program, seasonally and in limited quantities, of course.

Margie


Margie Luffman
Curator, Canadian Clonal Genebank Program
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre
2585 County Road 20
Harrow, Ontario
N0R 1G0

Phone: 519-738-2251 ext. 474
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>>> dwoodard@becon.org 04/21/02 04:33am >>>
I'm not sure this is going to be of much practical use but here goes 
anyway.

I have read that the old, good-quality cultivar Senator Dunlap 
performed relatively well on clay.

About 23 years ago I gave some Protem strawberry plants from a 
Canadian prairie nursery, to friends at Dandelion intentional 
community at Enterprise about 25 miles northwest of Kingston, 
Ontario, which is on Lake Ontario at the eastern end.

They planted the Protems in their garden on heavy Moscow clay. A year 
or two later I visited in season and sampled some of the Protems. 
They were extremely sweet and very good; any possible criticism would 
be that they tasted just a little too much like cotton candy.

I gathered that the yield was satisfactory and that they were easy to 
grow.

My friends were fairly skilled organic gardeners, and that garden had 
been established for at least 5 years. I imagine that soil condition 
would be a large factor in a planting of strawberrries on clay.

I rather vaguely recall reading that Protem had been bred from 
Senator Dunlap in Western Canada and released as an interim measure 
pending the completion of the breeding program, but it became quite 
popular with gardeners.

I have no idea whether Senator Dunlap or Protem are now available 
either in the U.S. or Canada.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
 
--- In nafex@y..., "crmauch" <mauch1@a...> wrote:
 
> Strawberries:
> Thinking of ordering/planting strawberries.  Since have clay/clay-
> loam soils was only considering Red Stele resistant varieties [I 
have 
> and have had serious issues around collar rot on apples].
> 
> The (red stele resistant) varieties listed in catalog that Penn 
State 
> Ag Extension also lists are:
> Earliglow (Early)
> Annapolis (Early)
> Northeaster (Early)
> Cavendish (Early-Mid)
> Sparkle (late)
> 
> I haven't been able to determine season or resistance of Surecrop
> 
> Any thoughts on these would be appreciated.  
> 
> Chris Mauchline
> SE PA, zone 6







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