This May we decided to plant a new variety of strawberries called Seascape which we purchased from noursefarms.com in Massachusetts. They are ever-bearing which means they produce into the summer and fall instead of the typical few weeks in mid- to late May. We read that they've been successfully grown in the northeast and so decided to give them a try. Well, they've been a success all right - I can't tell you how wonderful it is to pick fresh, delicious strawberries right from the patch in the middle of September! Marty mentioned that they would be great dipped in chocolate, so last week I made a batch of chocolate-covered strawberries. I microwaved some dipping chocolate (either Mercken's or Wilbur's bought at Weaver Nut Co. in Mountville) and dipped and swirled the berries, holding onto them by their stems. They dried on some wax paper and certainly didn't last long!
3 comments:
Beautiful strawberries! How delicious and rewarding!!
Enjoy the fruit of your labor... :)
Wow, I had no idea you could grow these. Did you start the patch last year or is this the first? Beautiful blog by the way.
We actually planted the Seascape strawberries just this May, so we were really surprised to be harvesting this summer and fall already! Granted, we aren't getting tons of berries - a quart or so every other day, but that's a lot for this time of year. Thanks for your sweet comments, ladies!
Blessings,
Julie
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