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Ireland: Promising potential for ‘Malling Centenary’ strawberry variety

STRAWBERRY picking season is well underway and there are farms around Oxfordshire that are welcoming people to pick their own.

Here's a list of all the places where you can pick the juicy summer fruit: Rectory Farm - Stanton St. John Open everyday until October to pick strawberries as well as other fruit and vegetables. If you visit between 9.30am and 11.30am on a weekday and pick 1.4kg of fresh fruit, you can get a free coffee, tea or milkshake at the cafe. Millets Farm - Abingdon Tickets are released online at regular intervals during the picking season to ensure there is sufficient fruit available for everyone to enjoy. It is £1.50 per person and  £7 for a cardboard punnet and £12 for a large round ...

Premium Dutch strawberry ready for Christmas This year, Dutch Berries built a four-hectare full LED-lit greenhouse. This allows this major Dutch strawberry farming to bring large volumes of a brand new crop to market from Christmas onwards. By also growing more different varieties, year-round cultivation is almost a reality. There's no Dutch-grown product available for only a very short time. That's from mid-February to the beginning of March. The development of new varieties and automation is being closely followed too. It's currently still challenging to harvest many strawberry varieties us...