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Wild strawberries are absolutely wonderful compared to cultivars you can buy.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago
Can you give your experiences please? When I lived in North Wales decades ago we had wild strawberries, they were about two or three times the volume of a chickpea in size (IIRC), and in two years I only ever found one that was ripe all the way around (they usually ripen on one side, or had a large patch of white unripeness even when the rest was red). I don't even remember that one tasting particularly stunning either.
- adrianN 3y ago
  In my experience wild strawberries have an almost explosive aroma that is similar to but different from cultivated strawberries. In contrast to cultivated strawberries the sweetness is very subdued.
  - _a_a_a_ 3y ago
    Perhaps you lived somewhere much warmer weather could ripen properly. North Wales has much to offer[1] but a tropic clime is not one of them. [1] rain, rocks, sheep, rain, snow, rain, coal, slate, rain, sheep with rain, rocks and sheep with rain, rain.
    - adrianN 3y ago
      Come visit Germany during strawberry season :)
Loughla 3y ago
Where is that? Growing up in the nursery us, wild strawberries there were small. And if they had flavor, it was mostly sour.
lproven 3y ago
100% this. I never liked strawberries much until I my ex-fiancée took me for an afternoon picking wild ones in the beech forest above a fjord in southern Norway (near Porsgrunn). Only the size of garden peas, but a taste explosion in the mouth: intense flavour and intoxicating sweetness. Absolutely wonderful. The giant store-bought things are pale and uninteresting by comparison. I can't eat them. They are like the ghosts of fruit. My friend's wild strawberries in his garden in South Moravia are nearly as good. Similarly tiny, similarly intense.
- _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  Interesting. I wonder if it's the difference in climate (does Norway get hot in summer?) or in species of strawberry or both. Sounds like you got the better deal anyway.

Can you give your experiences please? When I lived in North Wales decades ago we had wild strawberries, they were about two or three times the volume of a chickpea in size (IIRC), and in two years I only ever found one that was ripe all the way around (they usually ripen on one side, or had a large patch of white unripeness even when the rest was red). I don't even remember that one tasting particularly stunning either.

adrianN 3y ago
In my experience wild strawberries have an almost explosive aroma that is similar to but different from cultivated strawberries. In contrast to cultivated strawberries the sweetness is very subdued.
- _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  Perhaps you lived somewhere much warmer weather could ripen properly. North Wales has much to offer[1] but a tropic clime is not one of them. [1] rain, rocks, sheep, rain, snow, rain, coal, slate, rain, sheep with rain, rocks and sheep with rain, rain.
  - adrianN 3y ago
    Come visit Germany during strawberry season :)

Loughla 3y ago

Where is that? Growing up in the nursery us, wild strawberries there were small. And if they had flavor, it was mostly sour.

lproven 3y ago

100% this. I never liked strawberries much until I my ex-fiancée took me for an afternoon picking wild ones in the beech forest above a fjord in southern Norway (near Porsgrunn). Only the size of garden peas, but a taste explosion in the mouth: intense flavour and intoxicating sweetness. Absolutely wonderful. The giant store-bought things are pale and uninteresting by comparison. I can't eat them. They are like the ghosts of fruit. My friend's wild strawberries in his garden in South Moravia are nearly as good. Similarly tiny, similarly intense.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it's the difference in climate (does Norway get hot in summer?) or in species of strawberry or both. Sounds like you got the better deal anyway.