What is better or healthier to be able to enjoy absolutely fresh soft fruit selected and picked by yourself? And it’s great fun for the kids too!! Flower Farm has offered pick your own crops since 1975 and grows a wide range of crops including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, asparagus, runner beans, rhubarb and sweet corn.
Season
The season for English strawberries now extends from mid June until the beginning of August by making use of many different varieties. Before or after this time fruit must be grown in tunnels; but most fruit continues to be grown in the traditional manner in the ground.
PICK YOUR OWN SEASON 2009
Picking
Do not pull the fruit, which can result in the calyx being removed or even the plug. This reduces the shelf-life of the fruit. Instead, gripping the fruit behind the calyx, sever the stalk with the fingernails. Take care not to squeeze the fruit since bruising damage will be caused.
What is better or healthier to be able to enjoy absolutely fresh soft fruit selected and picked by yourself? And it’s great fun for the kids too!! Flower Farm has offered pick your own crops since 1975 and grows a wide range of crops including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, asparagus, runner beans, rhubarb and sweet corn.
Picking