Finland: Strawberry season underway
"The next two weeks will be the main harvest weeks," grower Mauri Jääskeläinen of Espoo said. "And then depending on the weather there'll be another week or week and a half as it fades out to the end. But the next two weeks are the most important. That's when people should get their berries."
Somewhere in the region of one third of strawberries cultivated in Finland are sold for fresh consumption, the rest are frozen or preserved in other ways. However Jääskeläinen says that consumption has dropped over the last ten years.
"It seems like people don't have deep freezes any more. Their flats are so small that they can't fit freezers, and anyway you can get strawberries from the shops all year round."
Source: yle.if
