Strawberry Season 2019: When does the strawberry season begin?

When does the strawberry season start?

The beginning of the strawberry season depends on the weather, so the strawberry season does not start on the same day every year. As a rule, the strawberry season starts in early May to mid-May. The main harvest time is then in June and July. Latest in August, the last strawberries of the season are harvested. So we have about three months to buy local strawberries.

Benefits of regional strawberries

In the supermarkets are almost all year imported fruits (for example from Spain or Morocco) available. However, there are two reasons against the purchase and consumption of imported strawberries:

Your life cycle assessment is extremely bad: Not only the long transport route including cooling is the problem, the red fruits need in the rearing also a lot of water, which can cause the soils in the growing countries dehydrate.
In addition are imported strawberries are often contaminated with pollutantsbecause they are sprayed with pesticides during cultivation and then preserved with chemicals for transport.

You should therefore prefer to use regional strawberries, the usually taste better too and it's really fun to pick them yourself. If you want to eat the fruits even after the strawberry season, we'll tell you how to freeze strawberries.

Cleaning, storage and storage of strawberries

Strawberries should always be washed before consumption, however not under running water, Too hard a jet of water could cause damage to the fruits and lead to muddy areas. Better: carefully clean the strawberries in a bowl of cold water and remove any soil. Then drain in a sieve and only at the end cut out the sepals, In general, strawberries should be washed immediately before processing, and unwashed fruits with stalk will last longer when stored. In the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator, the shelf life of strawberries is about three days.

Here you will find many strawberry recipes that sweeten the strawberry season. In addition to classics such as strawberry cake, strawberry cubes and strawberry jam, we also have a large selection of strawberry desserts? For example, you must try our strawberry tiramisu! For more inspiration, you can browse our Pinterest pin board.