Mara De Bois Strawberry Plants

Over 15 million strawberry mara de bois plants are bought in france each year increasing home grown harvests by 10 000 tonnes every summer.

Mara de bois strawberry plants. This much sought after variety combines the sweet aromatic taste of a wild strawberry with the fruit size of a modern hybrid. The berries are a lovely deep red when ripe and just irresistible. What ever the other plants are are just your average berry. Last year i experienced mara des bois strawberries for the first time having planted them the summer before and was so delighted with these fruits that i ve ordered more for me my clients and our community veg growing project they really are one of the most delicious fruits i ve ever tasted and being a perpetual type of strawberry will crop from july until october how impressive is that.

Strawberry mara des bois plants everbearer is a much sought after variety mara de bois is simply delicious. Red gauntlet x f. The berries are a lovely deep red when ripe and just irresistible. Planted in the spring mara des bois will produce fruit during the summer into the fall.

This variety produces small to medium fruit and contains the highest flavor and fragrance of any everbearer. Mara des bois strawberry was developed by a french breeding program. Different size shape and color from the mara s and not the flavor or scent i had come to expect. The best of the european varieties for flavour.

Strawberry mara de bois crops over a long period too may to september. Mara des bois is an everbearing type of strawberry and produces an initial plentiful crop in the spring and then subsequent crops at six week intervals throughout the summer and into the fall. The mara des bois truly are an amazing berry the flavor is unparalelled and the scent is intoxicating. Berries have an attractive red color with a high gloss.

Genus name comes from the latin word fraga meaning strawberry presumably from fragrans meaning fragrant in reference to the perfume of the fruit. Plant strawberry runners every 45cm. Take one fruit well mature and place its trunk between your lips without eating it. If you only have room for one row or a container or deux make sure you pick strawberry mara de bois.

Smell it for about 15 minutes and you will feel more comfortable than taking any calming drug ever. This unique variety combines modern vigour and the cropping potential of commercial varieties with the intense aromatic flavours of woodland and alpine varieties. Mara des bois was hybridized in soings en sologne france in 1991 by strawberry breeder jacques marionnet in a planned breeding program involving a cross of f. Plant strawberry plants in autumn or late spring in a sheltered sunny position in well manured free draining soil.

Mara des bois is an organoleptic strawberry it affects our senses pleasantly.