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if I wanted to buy strawberry plants while I'm in Paris, where would be a good place to start ? I know it's the wrong time of year but I want them for next year.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 02:59:52 PM EST
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You can't get strawberry plants in Merrie Olde Englonde?

by ATinNM on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 03:05:08 PM EST
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Oh yes but, according to the telegraph, different countries prefer different varieties. Spain and the UK "prefer" (ie are commercially given) large, crunchy but tasteless while the french prefer small and tasty.

We've largely given up on UK strawberries so I'd like to get some french ones to see the difference

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 03:48:46 PM EST
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What get pretty widely sold in France are big, bright red, tasteless Spanish strawberries.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:11:06 PM EST
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Don't know what's sold in Germany commercially, but here in hippy central, Das Viertel Bremen, it's all tasty organic fruits. Though we're kinda focused on bio blueberries at the moment. Half kilo €4.90 today, and sweet. nothing like cutting a croissant in half and filling it with blaubeeren for breaking the fast.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:29:44 PM EST
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But I should think you could plant out strawberries in SE England in mid-September.

The problem is where you would get a decent choice of tasty varieties in Paris (there are good French kinds). The standard place to go is the Quai de la Mégisserie in the 1st arondissement.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:25:05 PM EST
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Ah somewhere a few miles from my house is the farm shop for one of the places that does Strawberries for Marks and Spencers. all the extra tasty ones that aren't quite the right shape, for almost nothing.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:28:43 PM EST
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I usually go to Jardiland, but there isn't any inside Paris. I think the one in Palaiseau is a short distance from the RER.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:35:47 PM EST
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The variety I prefer is Mara des Bois. It tastes like woodland strawberry and it's much bigger. It is also very productive.

"Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char

by Melanchthon on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 07:25:43 PM EST
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Huh? You should be able to get a pretty good selection of traditional plants in garden centres. I think I'm mostly growing Old Cambridge, which are small to moderate sized and pretty well flavoured if they a) get some sun and b) your two year old doesn't pull them all once they turn slightly pink.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:23:03 PM EST
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A friend had his 3 year old go into the greenhouse and get lots of nice yellow flowers for their mum. All the flowers from the Tomato plants.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jul 31st, 2010 at 04:31:37 PM EST
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