Strawberries and Caneberries

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Nice presentation of the berries, note the small calyx.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries!

September 19, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
A very special friend of our family celebrated an important birthday this past week, and brought over two of the chocolate covered strawberries she received as a present on this big day.
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Odd stippling on tops of leaves of primocane blackberry.

I'm Stuck

September 2, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
Here's one for all of you that I just can't figure out. Symptoms (see Photo 1 below) are on fruiting primocane blackberry, under tunnels. Maybe 5% of leaves affected, mostly limited to the bottom third of the hedgerow but issue does occur in bunches.
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Seinfeld on Remote Comedy

August 26, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
A number of you may have heard by now about the op ed by Jerry Seinfeld in the New York Times (the "newspaper of record" as it were) as a response to an article saying how NYC will never come back post Covid. He loves New York, and makes a serious case on how it will always rebound.
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Ashes scattered all over the leaves.

Ashes

August 21, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
In case any of you are wondering what the strawberries look like right now with the fires close by (about 30 miles away) burning, I took some pictures of one of the test plots I happened to be harvesting this afternoon. Influence is negligible, a bit of the fruit that can be washed off.
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