Strawberry Picking

chaitra · Post by **chaitra** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:02 pm

Hie All..

Can anyone guide me where i can go for Strawberry picking. I read an old message which said we could pay 5 euros and pick strawberrys. Can anyone tell me the exact location and adress or route.

thanks

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Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:19 pm

chaitra wrote:Hie All..

Can anyone guide me where i can go for Strawberry picking. I read an old message which said we could pay 5 euros and pick strawberrys. Can anyone tell me the exact location and adress or route.

thanks

We could give you 45,000 locations in all of Finland. Would you like us to narrow it down to a 20 km radius?

chaitra · Post by **chaitra** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:46 pm

I was looking for something in and around Helsinki. Any place near Pasila is alos good.

I was looking for some place which has good public transport, connection like a bus or train or metro.
Thanks

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:55 pm

I can't help you for the Helsinki area. I can give two great places in Espoo (most likely, you'd take the train to Kauklahti or Leppavaara and then a bus to the berry picking locations). Use the YTV Journey Planner to plot the trip:
http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/reittiopas/en/

The first is my favorite. Both are located in Eastern Espoo.

Rossi Tarhat
Kuninkaantie 21-29

Kartanon Marja
Kuninkaankartanontie 35

http://www.rossitarhat.fi/index.htm

Berries are priced by weight. They provide a basket to put the berries into but you should bring your own container to take them home (bags just don't cut it).

M&P · Post by **M&P** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:08 pm

Hi chaitra,

Strawberry fields aren't located near city centres for understandable reasons. Actually, in Helsinki there are probably none, in Espoo and Vantaa a few (those Xochiquetzal mentioned are the ones and probably good places). If you can go to Kirkkonummi, Vihti, Tuusula etc. a bit more distant place, there are plenty. Below is link to a list in Finnish. The magic word is "itsepoiminta" (self-picking), for which there is a capital "I" in parenthesis after the word "Mansikka" (strawberry) if self-picking is possible:

http://www.puutarhaliitto.fi/hml/uusimaa.html

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:18 pm

Xochiquetzal, any recollection roughly how much a kilo raspberries are if you pick them yourself?

karen · Post by **karen** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:11 pm

Richard wrote:Xochiquetzal, any recollection roughly how much a kilo raspberries are if you pick them yourself?

Where are you getting raspberries?

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:30 pm

Tadpole'sMommy wrote:
Richard wrote:Xochiquetzal, any recollection roughly how much a kilo raspberries are if you pick them yourself?
Where are you getting raspberries?

So far only from Prisma in Sello, but they very pricey (By My guestimation of 3-4€ for a tiny punnet, something like 10c/berry). Just wondering if they were much cheaper if you pick them.

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:30 pm

Richard: I'll post as soon as we go tomorrow. The price changes depending on what time you pick. Get there this week and it will be cheaper than in July, when the price raises for peak picking.

Karen: They also have self pick raspberries (at least at the one on Kunninkaantie.

I also highly recommend a trip of berry picking and then taking them to a fresh water lake to wash and eat them while the kids swim. It's easy to pop on the Keha III or Turunvayla and head out to Lake Kirkkonummi for one heck of a wonderful day of strawberry eating and swimming.

Karen, do you think we could get together with May again this year for strawberry picking?

Ironically, strawberries are cheapest downtown at the railway station (by the local trains). 2 litres are 4e.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:48 pm

Xochiquetzal wrote:
Ironically, strawberries are cheapest downtown at the railway station (by the local trains). 2 litres are 4e.

Finnish???

Our plants are no where near ripe. IMO any Finnish strawberries already on sale must have been grown under plastic/indoors. And they will be expensive. Wait a week or two or more and they will be much cheaper. As for raspberries.... I don't think we will have any for 3 weeks or so (and ours are in sunny Pohja).

karen · Post by **karen** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:12 pm

Xochiquetzal wrote: Karen, do you think we could get together with May again this year for strawberry picking?

May is in Brazil for a couple of years. Reino and I will be available after the 6th.

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:24 am

penelope wrote:
Xochiquetzal wrote:
Ironically, strawberries are cheapest downtown at the railway station (by the local trains). 2 litres are 4e.
Finnish???

Our plants are no where near ripe. IMO any Finnish strawberries already on sale must have been grown under plastic/indoors. And they will be expensive. Wait a week or two or more and they will be much cheaper. As for raspberries.... I don't think we will have any for 3 weeks or so (and ours are in sunny Pohja).

They were listed as suomalainen, yes. And they looked to be the tiny Finnish variety (rather than the larger foreign ones). I didn't doubt their authenticity.

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:26 am

Tadpole'sMommy wrote:
Xochiquetzal wrote: Karen, do you think we could get together with May again this year for strawberry picking?
May is in Brazil for a couple of years. Reino and I will be available after the 6th.

mauhahaha time to go ransack her house and steal all that beautiful Asian furniture!!!!!!

oh wait. Did I say that aloud? hrm.

enk · Post by **enk** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:52 am

Richard wrote:So far only from Prisma in Sello, but they very pricey (By My guestimation of 3-4€ for a tiny punnet, something like 10c/berry). Just wondering if they were much cheaper if you pick them.

Why don't you just hike through what's left of the forest in Kilo
and pick them for free?

The joint is overrun with raspberries at the
end of August usually. Haven't gotten around to looking at the
progress this year, but I can keep you updated

-enk

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:17 pm

I drove to Turku and back today and didn't see one single PYO strawberries sign on the road and only one kioski advertising strawberries for sale (ie already picked for you) and they were closed. Too early. Even for smultron.

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