Start of the strawberry season: This is how much the fruit will cost in Munich's fields this year

Fresh and juicy: Beate Gschwend enjoys the strawberries. © Oli Bodmer

The strawberry season has begun, and the fields in Munich are very busy. Our newspaper visited the people of Munich at the strawberry chunk.

Beate Gschwend had to wait a little longer than usual for this moment this year: The 57-year-old is standing in one of the earthy furrows between long green stripes in the strawberry field in Perlach. She reaches into one of her three bowls full of red fruits, brings one to her mouth and takes a bite: "They taste exactly like strawberries should taste: sun-ripened, full of aroma and not watery." The fruits still taste best in the local fields, she says. That's why she came here right at the start of the season.

Strawberry time starts a little later in Munich this year: "Too cold and wet"

With a delay of one to two weeks, the strawberry season has started in Munich: "For a long time it was just too cool and wet this year," says field operator Christian Lang. As a result, he was able to open his fields to pickers a little later this year. A problem that many strawberry farmers had this spring. Especially the nights were quite frosty. However, warmth is enormously important for strawberries in order to ripen. This also creates the typical red blaze of color.

The cultivation of the fields was also particularly challenging because of the weather. Hopping weeds or laying straw only works well when the soil is dry. But then everything happened quickly: Without further ado, the sales booths had to be set up and a fence had to be erected so that the season could start at Lang.

Despite small delays, Lang expects a good season this year. "There are a lot of flowers in the field, which usually means a lot of strawberries," he says. The Association of South German Asparagus and Strawberry Growers (VSSE) also expects this: "It looks like a good strawberry year," says board member Simon Schumacher. The best picking time is then from June to July, says Lang.

There is a lot going on in the fields of Erdbeer Lang at the beginning of the season - employee Lieselotte Strohmeier is happy about that. © Oli Bodmer

This is how much the red fruits cost in Munich: differences in providers

Despite the increase in energy costs, his prices will remain unchanged this year. A kilo of strawberries costs 5.48 euros. The situation is a little different in the Wolf family's strawberry fields (see box): Here, the price rose by seven percent to 6.40 euros per kilo compared to the previous year. On the fields of Hofreiter (Kasten), the kilo costs between 5.90 and 11.80 euros, depending on the quantity picked – there, too, all fields have been open since last weekend.

Right at the beginning, many pickers were drawn to the strawberry Lang field, such as the Strohmeier family: "You just notice the freshness! The berries are simply very fruity and sweet," says family man Markus Strohmeier (44). And what's more, picking is fun for the whole family. His mother, Lieselotte Strohmeier (77), works in the red stall on the edge of the strawberry Lang field. She thinks: "The start to the season went great."

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And there is still a lot of picking fun in Munich: Erdbeer Lang operates fields in Perlach (Unterhachinger Straße), Taufkirchen (Münchener Straße) and Putzbrunn (Keferloher-Markt-Straße), among others. The Munich field of the Wolf family is in Neuaubing (Hörweg). Hofreiter operates fields in Pasing (Blumenauer Straße), Lochhausen and Feldmoching (Feldmochinger Straße), among others. In Obersendling (Wolfratshauser Str.) and Forstenried (Herterichstraße – Waterloostraße intersection) there are fields of Storz strawberry crops.