*Sic wondering what the Korean Strawberry production and industry looks like since Strawberries are a summer fruit and this is set in winter and Korea is not exactly California… Greenhouses but they’re still gonna be off season*

*Sic wondering why anyone in the middle of winter would nonetheless turn down any strawberries, again since they’re a summer fruit, and bitch do you know how much I’d kill for that many strawberries in the middle of winter????*

*Sic looking at them struggling when it would not be at all hard for herself to devour that entire bowl without thinking… *: … weak






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    I’ve only ever eaten strawberries in winter. So this has sent me into an existential crisi… what have I been eating all the time?

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      Well now I’M having an existential crisis… may I ask where you’re from?
      That might help me propose and answer.

      Strawberries only fruit here from Dec-Feb, which is our summer. They’ll fruit a bit longer if it’s a bit warmer, and depending on your latitude, but I primarily associate them as a seasonal fruit and with my Christmas because of this.
      They are available in the winter here but they’re expensive and imported, and generally not as juicy or ripe.
      But this is very particular to where I live – I live in NZ; We have a temperate oceanic climate with noticible season shifts, lots of micro climates, and the south is very dry and cold in comparison (where I’m from), so NZ grows a lot of its own produce during the relevant seasons and imports in the off seasons.
      Unlike California for example, which can produce seasonal fruit all year round.

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    Well, to me they’re a summer fruit too, but at the same time in stores they sell them in season from around February to May (when we’re lucky ><)…yet the few I have in my garden grow in summer too…so maybe it's just about different varieties? No clue really xD

    Also I was recently watching something (wish I remembered what..) where a person made a comment about strawberry season being almost over, and that adds to my confusion lol

    P.S. I live in Europe

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      Most likely just import them during your Winter is my guess, as I mentioned to wapz above, as ours are???

      But these in the show are from a farmer he knows, suggesting locally grown which threw me off 😅. Hence my wondering about the Korean industry and if they have a big off season industry by growing them domestically in greenhouses. I don’t know enough about the commercial industry tbh- my hyung grows them and they fruit prolifically every summer! Haha
      It could be a variety thing but most I know of have a Spring or Summer starting season at least 🤔

      Something for me to research and go down a rabbit hole for! (But not tonight pfft)

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        We do import some, yeah (from Spain mainly, so still EU), but I mostly buy ones grown here (in Italy)…a mystery ahah!
        Please share your findings later too! 😁

        …meanwhile I’ll be googling too xD 💻👀

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    Strawberries are actually a winter/spring fruit in Korea, thanks to greenhouses 🙂 I believe March/April is considered peak strawberry season.

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      Hmmmm I figured as much.
      I wonder if they just speed up the process so they can get them to fruit just that much earlier, that would align with March/April being peak which just 2-3 months before natural peak.
      Maybe that’s easier for them than full winter production.
      This post has just turned into Sic’s farming and gardening stream of consciousness musings lmfao…

      I presume you know this specifically for a reason????

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        Lol, I just watch a lot of Korean vloggers and one I watched recently lamented the end of strawberry season, so I was curious and googled it!

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    Well, if my husband can grow tangerines in the winter in my basement, S. Korea can probably manage strawberries. But this reminds me of when I used to live in Norcal and you could just stop by the side of the road in June and have the sweetest strawberries of your life. My son (who was 2 at tel he time) ate his weight in strawberries from Sacramento to San Fransisco once and paid for it with the worst hives I’ve ever seen! So word to the wise: strawberries are histiminergic (enhances the release of histamine) and can cause hives whether or not you’re allergic to it—and the riper the more histamine. So those kids eating that whole bowl may be looking at hives in their future. 😂

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