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Pick Your Own
Strawberries - 2010
update - Friday, June 25th,
2010
Useless Trivia
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PYO Strawberries at Spring Ledge Farm -
We will be open for PYO on June 26th, 7:30 am -1:30 pm or as conditions
permit.
We will be open when conditions permit.
Please call our bee-line at 603-526-2080
before you make the trek to the strawberry fields. The message is
updated daily with picking information.
The prices this year are as follows...
less than 10 lbs. = $2.99 per pound
10-50 lbs. = $2.49 per pound
over 50 lbs. - $2.19 per pound.
To reach the Pleasant Lake Fields, go to the middle of
New London and turn onto North Pleasant St. between Artisan's and
Lake Sunapee Bank. The fields are 1.8 miles down the hill on your
right. You will see Pleasant Lake just before you get to the fields.
 Michael
Seamans
| PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES
Spring Ledge Farm's Pick Your Own Strawberries
facilities are located about a mile from the farm on the back side of Pleasant Lake in New London. We offer four different varieties throughout the season which generally peaks in mid July. The whole season ranges from late June through
l ate July. Prime picking times are in the morning, before the mid-day sun. Thus, picking hours are generally from 7:30 a.m. until
1 p.m. The 2 acres of strawberry rows are bedded with straw, which is a little kinder to your knees. Feel free to bring your own containers to pick into or use one of our quart boxes or larger trays. Call the
bee-line to find out specific days and times for picking during the season.
Directions to Pleasant Lake Farm are relatively simple so see you there!
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| Useless Strawberry
Trivia |
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by any other name, its still a strawberry
| Dutch |
aardebei |
| French |
Fraise |
| German |
Erdbeere |
| Spanish |
Fresa |
| Danish |
jordbaer |
| Italian |
Fragola |
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Botanically, the latin name is
Fragaria x ananassa Duschesne
Strawberries are in the Rosaceae family,
the rose family, along with raspberries, roses, and thousands of
other plants both familiar and foreign. |
| The Strawberry plant is a perennial plant, meaning it
will survive the winters up here in NH and come back again in the
spring. Commercially, most strawberry plants survive and
produce well for about 3 years. We planted 8,000 plants this spring
which will produce for us starting next June. Every year we
plant another succession of plants so that we always have some
plants that are at their peak of production while others wane and
new ones start. |
Did you know... the tiny seeds on the strawberry
(called achenes) are what makes the strawberry fruit grow.
Each seed, once it is pollinated, exudes hormones that grow the red
fruit around each particular seed. The more pollination you
have, the better your strawberry because each seed will be
viable. If you took off some of the tiny seeds while the
strawberry was still green, you would end up with a warped
strawberry - growing red flesh only where there were seeds and not
growing at all where you removed the seeds. |
Strawberries are high in vitamin C. Here is their basic breakdown of
nutrients: per 100g. edible portion
| % water |
Kcal Energy |
Protein |
Fat |
Carbo |
Fiber |
Ca |
P |
Fe |
Na |
K |
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| 92 |
30 kcal |
0.6g |
0.4g |
7g |
0.5 |
14mg |
19mg |
0.4mg |
1mg |
166mg |
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| Vit A |
Thiamin |
Riboflavin |
Niacin |
Vit. C |
Vit. B6 |
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| 27 IU |
0.02mg |
0.07mg |
0.23mg |
56.7mg |
0.06mg |
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IU = International Units
I'm not sure how many strawberries make up a 100g. edible
portion, but I aim to find out...
says here that about 8 strawberries are equal to one orange in
terms of vitamin C content.
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