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Originally Posted by seakdivers
We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.
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You probably get your domesticated strawberries (just called "berries" around here) from us in Ventura County. First crop's just in, and the big crop comes in in late May. The Grade-A chocolate-dippers are the size of a baby's fist, and they have good flavor too, maybe not quite as intense as a wild strawberry but not the low-taste stuff we used to see in the seventies. We've gotten modest rain this season, nothing too savage -- heavy rains at the wrong time beat up strawberries, literally battering the fruit and rotting them on the plants, and flooding plants out of the fields.
We're wondering how to keep pests out of the berries with methyl bromide being phased out.