What Do You Wait For?
You may think you’ve tasted a strawberry.
Another in my What Do You Wait For? series.
What Do You Wait For?
Amish strawberries of Course!
Today I bought 2 pints of incredible strawberries from our Amish neighbors.
Spring is my favorite season as you’ve learned in my original post: What Do You Wait For? and strawberries have always been something I wait for.
Yes, we can get strawberries from California year ‘round and from Florida in very early Spring, but Ohio strawberries, the best!
Waiting for them makes them taste even better!
When we grew for farmer’s markets, strawberries were on the roster.
Ours would be ready to go late May, early June and we’d average anywhere from 100 to 150 pints over a couple of weeks, which would sell out immediately.
You may think you’ve tasted a strawberry, but if your strawberries are white in the center, it will be sour, not sweet as it should be.
It can sometimes be difficult to tell the difference between a strawberry variety that is supposed to be white on the inside, and a strawberry that has simply been picked too early.
The taste is often the only way to tell, if the strawberry is sweet, it’s ripe, regardless of its color.
Chemically ripened strawberries are red on outside and white on inside, while sun-ripened strawberries are red to almost a pink red color inside.
Our field grown strawberries:
Here in Ohio, our Amish neighbors grow their strawberries in high tunnels. A high tunnel is an enclosed structure, usually covered in plastic where the temperature can be controlled. It’s how they are able to harvest them earlier.
Quick, easy way to hull a strawberry:
That’s a plastic straw by the way.
One way I enjoy strawberries:
When we quit growing for market, we quit growing strawberries.
I may put a patch in in the future, but for now these will work!
I look forward to these now that we don’t farm them.
What do you wait for?
Tell me in the comments.
Come on, it’ll be fun!
There's nothing quite like strawberries ripened on the vine!
It all looks so wonderful!