We went to a local farm on a hot day, which meant that we (my parents, my brother and I), didn’t want to stay very long. When we got to the car park, we had to buy a basket to put the strawberries in. A person working there explained that due to the thunderstorm a few days ago, lots of the strawberries were rotten on the surface, unfortunately. We thought that the baskets weren’t very big, so we bought two of them.
Not all the fields of berries were ready for picking, so we had to walk an extremely long and tiring way. I brought my fan, but even that wasn’t enough to fight against the heat.
The field of strawberries was absolutely magnificent to look at. We soon began picking but we were not quite skilled enough. As the worker had said, we had to rummage around a lot to find a good-looking strawberry. If they were not rotten, they were bitten by bugs and insects. If they were not bitten, they were being eaten; if they were not being eaten, they were not ripe enough. There were a lot of bugs and insects, including what I later found out were spittlebugs. Their nymphs generally feed on the base of the plants where they produce a vast amount of wet, bubbly foam to protect themselves. Also vine weevils were crawling around and that made my stomach feel slightly uncomfortable as I’m never a big fan of small bugs that steal my food (the strawberries). This was made worse when I saw a single spider mite, and that was that.
So, as you can probably imagine, it was a tiring job. We ended up returning a basket.
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