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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On 2017-06-20 12:10 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > On 6/19/2017 7:01 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> >> On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 3:37:05 PM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>> I am growing these this year. Got tons of berries but they are just
> >>> starting
> >>> to ripen. Alas, our sun that we were supposed to get today just did not
> >>> happen. Anyway... I picked 4 of them the other day. They looked ripe but
> >>> they were very sour. Everything I red about them indicates that they are
> >>> sweet. Did I just pick them too soon? Anyone know?
> >>
> >> did they smell like a strawberry, if they are ripe they will have a
> >> nice strong strawberry smell
> >>
> > It's probably too early to pick strawberries in the pacific northwest,
> > even if they *are* red.
> >
>
> If they are red they are ripe.

Sadly not. In winter, smkts here are full of huge red imported
strawberries which look ripe and delicious, but taste like cardboard and
are hard. No matter how long you keep them they never ripen.

JanetUK