Strawberries from California.......anyone?

[boggybranch]

http://www.rodale.com/methyl-iodide-0?cm_mmc=DailyNewsNL-_-2011_01_06-_-Top5-_-NA

 

[beavis]

That sucks.

Oh well, another reason not to buy tasteless strawbs from the grocery store.

 

[PotterWatch]

Great. I love having strawberry fields all around me to pick from at the height of the season, but I wonder how many would end up using this and how many would tell the truth about it when asked.

 

[journey11]

Glad I grow my own! Seems very hypocritical of CA, surely it will be overturned.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Boggy B, my deepest apologies for posting this same article on the forum. Please forgive me. I have put a link init to this thread.

That will teach me to read current topics before I post..............

Hattie

 

[boggybranch]

Boggy B, my deepest apologies for posting this same article on the forum. Please forgive me. I have put a link init to this thread.

That will teach me to read current topics before I post..............

Hattie

Nothing to forgive. LOL Would rather it get posted, twice, than not posted at all. Pretty serious stuff.

 

[lesa]

I just can't wrap my head around this. Can you picture a bunch of "educated" people sitting around in a room and agreeing that spraying poison on FOOD is a good idea???? You would think if anyone suggested something so ridiculous, they would be laughed out of the room... Glad I doubled my strawberry row-

 

[wifezilla]

I tossed any strawberry I didn't eat in to a garden bed hoping it would result in more plants this year. Since I am growing tiny alpine strawberries and I have more seeds, I better get planting!

 

[ninnymary]

Thanks Boggy...Even living in California, I hadn't heard of it. I stopped buying strawberries at the store, organic or conventional. The taste was so bad on both. Now I only buy organic from the farmer's market. They are so much sweeter.

Just signed the petition.

Mary

 

[Ariel301]

I'm not going to be buying store-bought strawberries anymore. Since we're right next to California, that's the only kind available here anyway. I'm hoping to plant about a hundred strawberry plants in the spring. The commercial ones taste horrible anyway. I remember when they used to be so sweet and juicy, but now they are sour. I've noticed that with most fruit, they just don't taste good anymore... I got some oranges on Thursday and they are so pale inside that they ought to be called 'yellows' instead. They were dry and tasteless.