点评:It's a fun outing and some decent strawberries. We lived in SoCal and in Carlsbad, they have the most amazing strawberry field anywhere in the world. We are missing our freshly picked strawberries so I did a search and who would guessed there is a strawberry field about 15 minutes from us!
Friend Tip: bring plastic garbage bags and a change of shoes. And wear some boots with some traction to them. Otherwise, you are liking to find yourself on your backside in a pile of thick mud. Fortunately, we were prepared so it wasn't an issue. Just took the shoes off, threw them in a plastic bag and placed in our trunk along with the freshly picked strawberries.
We arrived when they first opened and the parking is in a dirt lot but it's dry. You are given a box with a handle to go and start picking and you pay at the end when they weigh out your collection.
The fields are quite big... but pickings were slim. Maybe there were bigger, plump strawberries last month but right now it's mostly tiny berries that haven't ripened. Because I had boots on and didn't mind them getting muddy, I went to areas that it seemed others avoided and was able to find more of the bigger ripe berries. There are lots of weeds and the berries just seem to be largely unattended. They also have some fields where you can cut fresh flowers.
For even the berries we did pick, they are nice tasting, but not the best strawberries. They are kind of soft and not very firm. And of the berries we did find that were of an average size, they seem to split open. We did pick flowers but they are fairly small stemmed flowers and really don't look like anything special. They charge for every "bud" and we ended up paying $10 for a bunch of flowers that look much like the wild flowers growing in our backyard.
They have a lot of activities for kids and it seems like a fun family event. But if you are here just for some quality strawberries, you are not likely to get them. Next year we will try coming at the beginning of the season to see if they are bigger/fresher. But if you ever have a chance to visit the strawberry fields in Carlsbad, CA you will have the most amazing strawberries ever in your life.
翻译:这是一次有趣的郊游和一些不错的草莓。我们住在南加州和卡尔斯巴德,他们拥有世界上最令人惊叹的草莓园。我们缺少刚采摘的草莓,所以我进行了搜索,谁会猜到离我们大约 15 分钟路程就有一片草莓园!
朋友提示:带上塑料垃圾袋和换鞋。穿一些有牵引力的靴子。否则,您很可能会发现自己躺在一堆厚泥里。幸运的是,我们做好了准备,所以这不是问题。刚脱下鞋子,把它们扔进一个塑料袋里,和刚摘下来的草莓一起放在我们的后备箱里。
我们在他们刚开张的时候就到了,停车场在一片泥土中,但很干燥。你会得到一个带把手的盒子,你可以开始挑选,最后当他们称重你的收藏品时你才付钱。
田野很大……但采摘很少。也许上个月有更大、更饱满的草莓,但现在主要是还没有成熟的小浆果。因为我穿着靴子并且不介意它们变得泥泞,所以我去了其他人似乎避开的地方并且能够找到更多更大的成熟浆果。有很多杂草,浆果似乎基本上无人看管。他们还有一些田地,您可以在那里采摘鲜花。
即使是我们采摘的浆果,味道也不错,但不是最好的草莓。它们有点软,不是很结实。在我们确实发现的中等大小的浆果中,它们似乎裂开了。我们确实摘了花,但它们是相当小的花茎,看起来真的没什么特别的。他们对每个“花蕾”收费,最后我们花了 10 美元买了一束看起来很像我们后院生长的野花的花。
他们为孩子们准备了很多活动,这似乎是一个有趣的家庭活动。但如果你只是为了一些优质的草莓而来,你不太可能买到它们。明年我们将尝试在季节开始时前来,看看它们是否更大/更新鲜。但是,如果您有机会参观加利福尼亚州卡尔斯巴德的草莓园,您将拥有一生中最美味的草莓。