{"id":11887,"date":"2011-12-30T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11887"},"modified":"2011-12-30T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T12:11:00","slug":"pineberry-the-white-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/pineberry-the-white-strawberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineberry  &#8211; The White Strawberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kingdesmond\/510175383\/\" title=\"Nature: Unripe White Strawberries by kingdesmond1337, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/226\/510175383_fa745238c3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Nature: Unripe White Strawberries\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suttons Seeds and some supermarkets like Waitrose want us to experiment with white strawberries. A contradiction in terms as strawberries are strawberry coloured. I am not usually keen when a retailer pushes a product in my direction and it will be sometime before I consider growing white strawberries deliberately.<\/p>\n<h2>White Strawberry or Pineberry<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>White strawberries are a special breed of strawberry that taste a bit like pineapple. For differentiation they are now called Pineberries but they are a hybrid of Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana. <\/li>\n<li>Pineberries start off green, gradually turning paler as they ripen. By the time the  deeply set seeds turn deep red, the white fruit is  ripe.<\/li>\n<li>When the fruit is almost totally white but studded with red seeds it should be sweet and juicy enough to eat. The fruit is normally ready in May.<\/li>\n<li>The colouring is the reverse of the usual strawberry with white seeds on a red fruit. Flowers and plants are similar in appearance<\/li>\n<li>Pineberries are slightly smaller than most commercially grown strawberries a bit less than an inch in diameter.<\/li>\n<li>Best grown in a greenhouse with fruit lifted from the compost with straw or coir.<\/li>\n<p><strong>Gardeners Tips<\/strong><br \/>\nSee out other article <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/the-what-and-when-of-strawberries\/\">Growing Juicy Red Strawberries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>credits<br \/>\nPhoto kingdesmond1337 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White strawberries are a contradiction in terms as strawberries are strawberry coloured and do not taste of pineapple as these Pineberries do although they are definitely from the strawberry family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}