I'd seen several people post on Facebook about strawberry picking, and we had so much fun at apple and blueberry picking, this seemed like a lot of fun. We decided between two local berry patches then headed out on Saturday morning. We had gotten a tip that it was best to get there early, so we arrived around 9am.
They showed us which row to pick in and we got started. We showed the boys how to pick them, choosing only the red strawberries, they were doing great until the gal in the next row asked Karsten if he had eaten one yet. Once he realized he could EAT the strawberries, he ate one, put one in his basket, ate two, one in basket, and so on.
Searching for the perfect red strawberry
Yummm, the first taste. The strawberries were so juicy which gave him sticky fingers.
Can I eat this one mom?
These are tasty!
So many strawberries to choose from!
Liam did a good job of finding the red strawberries; however, he grabbed them with a bit too much force and had strawberry mush in his hands on more than one occasion.
Still eating strawberries while we picked.
When Liam got bored with picking, he thought he should try to carry the box we had picked. Thankfully we thwarted this.
After a while, we tried to stop Liam from picking (aka squashing) strawberries. We would hand him the berries we picked and he would put them in the box for us. This worked for a while until he started throwing the strawberries into the box.
Notice the small number of berries in the bucket. I bet there are more in his tummy than in the bucket!
After 20-30 minutes of picking, we have a full bucket and box of strawberries. We should have stopped earlier; however, we kept spotting yummy looking strawberries that we couldn't resist.
Then Liam discovered how tasty the strawberries were. Check out that strawberry juice!
I'd say strawberry picking is a hit.
Pretty sure we'll be back next year.
Liam liked the strawberries so much that he would pop the entire thing into his mount - the top and all. Silly boy!
We were all covered in strawberry juice when we left.
A fun morning strawberry picking!
I thought I could get a few cute pictures if I bribed the boys with more strawberries. I'll let you be the judge of the success of that plan.
We ended up picking 19 lbs of strawberries. Looks like I need to find a lot of strawberry recipes!