Pick-Your-Own Strawberries

Containers:
Pick-your-own strawberries are sold by the pound. We provide cardboard picking containers for you to take your berries  home in, or you can bring your own container. If you bring your own containers to pick in, be sure to let us know when you check in so we can get the tare weight before you fill it up with berries.

Varieties:
Chandler is the variety we grow for our pick-your-own field. Without a doubt, it is the best variety available in the mid-Atlantic region. The plants produce the largest fruit with the best flavor all season long. (We typically get three weeks of good strawberry picking during a season.) They are grown on raised beds, using plastic mulch in the rows, and barley straw between the rows to keep weeds down and to help keep the fruit clean. If you are used to traditional matted row berries, you will find picking much easier.

Picking Tip:
We recommend you make a preliminary walk through the strawberry patch, looking for hot-spots. Once you find a good spot, settle down in a row, gently moving the plant’s leaves around to find all of the ripe berries hidden underneath. Then push your container down the row methodically, checking each plant as you go.

Pick the reddest berries – save orange fruit to be picked in a day or two. A little white on the tip of the fruit is OK; the variety we grow has a tendency to show a little white on the tip.