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Old September 14, 2019   #2
Worth1
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A strawberry with a Brix of 7 would be like eating sour paper to me.
A good strawberry should be up close to 16 just like a good watermelon.

To get that sweetness you need well drained soil and not flooded with water all the time.
Some of the best berries I have ever eaten were in the wild on dry ground around limestone outcrops.
Some of the worst were in south east Texas along the coast and north of it in tight black soil that doesn't drain well.

Most consumers have gotten so used to the garbage they sell in stores they have no idea what the real thing is.
Tomatoes can be acidic and yet sweet not sweet and acidic.
And as said many times the sugar hides the acid.
So what is the Brix and acid level of the store bought tomatoes?
I can't taste anything.

Back to fruits strawberries and other berries.
I can find it safe to say growing up I ate more berries and fruit than any kid alive because my parents were berry and fruit fanatics.
We had dried fruit, frozen fruit, fresh fruit, and canned fruit 365 days a year.
There wasn't a day went by we didn't eat fruit.
I kept dried fruit and pecans in my bedroom for snaking while reading at night.
All of it dried out in the sunshine on the farm.
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