"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> We are in the height of the strawberry season here. I was hoping to wait
> for the later, sweeter berries to make my jam, but there is lot of rain
> forecast for the next week, and that means bloated, bland and mouldy
> fruit. Plus, the berry season started three weeks early this year, so who
> knows how much longer they will be around.
>
> So.... this was strawberry day. I went out this morning and picked 10
> litres of strawberries. I brought them home and made 4 batches of jam,
> kept two litres for use over the next few days, and put four bags of them
> in the freezer for winter.
>
> I was pretty good at the berry patch. I didn't eat any of them, except one
> to check for flavour. I kept thinking of the time I picked them for money.
> I lasted half a day. I earned $2.65 in five hours. I probably would have
> made more money if I had put more in the baskets instead of eating them.
> Between, the sunburn, the sore back, the sore knees, the boredom, the
> measly pay, and eating way too many strawberries, I didn't want to eat
> them for years. I have overcome that aversion, but I had to remind myself
> why I shouldn't eat them while picking.



It's way past strawberry season in SC but it sounds like you got a lot of
really good ones! Congrats!

There's a U-Pick place called Dempsey Farms about 10 miles south. Right now
it's yellow (crookneck) and zucchini picking season. Maybe we'll stop there
tomorrow on our way back from Hunting Island

Jill