pick your own.....

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Hi Jodie,

There's an earlier thread on picking your own fruit and veg that includes some links to finding local farms etc so I'll add your post to it to keep the replies together.

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moanymoany

SoScrooge wrote: »

Being still very new to OS, I wonder if anybody could share their wisdom here....

I am playing with the idea of buying vegitables (maily potatoes, carrots, and something else in season, I don't know what it is now) from a farm.

:question: Is it cheaper than in a supermarket or not?

Aslo, has anybody done Pick You Own thing (when you go to a farm to pick fruit and veg)?

:question: How do you get paid? In money, in fruit and vegg, or both? I read somewhere that now it is asparagus and rhubab time.

Could anybody recomend farms for the above? We are on the border between Surey and Kent.

Thank you in advance.

Are you thinking about actually working for farms, picking produce for a wage? When I was gal this was called 'fieldwork' and was done by 'gangs' of women and girls who could make quite good money.

If you did this you would be paid in cash.

ubamother

pick your own - unless you are picking for the company that grow the strawberries, you don't get paid - you simply have the chance to choose as few or as many of the best, freshest strawberries as you want and buy them, and a few might just slip in your mouth on the way round! Great day out with the kids and a picnic

Hawthorn

We took the kids strawberry picking. Well, three of them, anyway. The eldest was elsewhere.
We managed, between us, to bag around ten kilos of strawberries (at £1.80 a kilo)
Needless to say, we now have 20lbs of scrummy strawberry jam, which should do us for the year, and what was leftover after the kids had munched till their hearts content (and my friends kids LOL) we dehydrated!

My house, STILL Stinks of strawberries :rotfl:

LameWolf

Mr LameWolf and I went and picked 8 lb of strawberries at the weekend. That's good going for us, as I have to lean on two sticks to even walk - so you can imagine me, putting my weight on the sticks, one in my left hand and one propped into my middle, leaning down with my backside in the air to try to pick the darned things. (And NO, I don't have a picture!:rotfl: )

Anyway, that has now been turned into jam. We were hoping to get some blackcurrants also, but got rained off.

trying-very-trying

LameWolf wrote: »

Mr LameWolf and I went and picked 8 lb of strawberries at the weekend. That's good going for us, as I have to lean on two sticks to even walk - so you can imagine me, putting my weight on the sticks, one in my left hand and one propped into my middle, leaning down with my backside in the air to try to pick the darned things. (And NO, I don't have a picture!:rotfl: )
Anyway, that has now been turned into jam. We were hoping to get some blackcurrants also, but got rained off.

Like you I'm on crutches, but our local pyo has some of their strawberries growing on shelving sort of slightly under cover. Makes it so much easier for me, if these are ready when we go picking.

Andy_Hamilton

lil_me wrote: »

Oh blimey, some good ones on that site but could do with a bit of updating, one near me says 'applying for planning permission feb '03

I am going to look for the giant strawberry tomorrow, there is one on the way to where I have an appointment in the morning which puts the big strawberry they have near the roadside when it's open.

I've been to the plawsworth pick your own place 3 times in the last 2 weeks.
It's a very well run site (nothing to do with me). Some of the strawberries are that big I had to de-core some of them.

One thing I have learnt;
Walk to the furthest possible point away from the entrance. People are lazy so your much more likely to get better fruit after more walking.

Suzkin

Hi,

I'm thinking of going strawberry picking, and know that a new crop will appear at the beginning of August. The particular farm I'm thinking of sells pick your own for £1.50 per lb (i.e. approx. £3.30 kg).

My maths isn't very good, and I was just wondering: how cheap is this? Would it actually be just as easy (or easier) to go to the supermarket/local grocers? (btw: I already appreciate that pick your own means freshly chosen, generally less pesticides etc., and am simply wondering about the money aspect).

Thanks.

dixie_dean_2

Our local was £2.95 oper kilo which was a lot cheaper than the supermarkets at the time i looked but it will vary a lot. I'd say it would always be cheaper to pick you own though.

tryingtoruletheworld

I go to a couple of local pick your own places, and they are all cheaper than buying in the shops. One place I go to does strawberries for £1 per pound which is pretty impressive, and the raspberries aren't much more.

I also like the process of picking them, but most importantly I know that they have ripened on the plant, not in a plastic tub in the hold of an aeroplane somewhere. And I know they are fresh too!