I love strawberries.
Right off the plant they are juicy, perfectly ripe and delicious.
I believe I have almost 30 pounds in my freezer right now. Why so much? you might ask. And I would have to say it might not be enough =)
but the reason I need to have loads of strawberries in my freezer is so that I can make it through the long winter. For some reason if I have strawberries to last me a winter I can survive. Taking a bag of strawberries out of the freezer on a cold and blustery day in the dead of winter is a pretty good feeling.
The only thing I do to the berries is wash them, hull them and cut them in half (or a few pieces if they are a big berry). For some of them I let sit for a while to let them soak in their own juice and others I put into the freezer right away. Here is my berry preparation setup:
How beautiful is this-
Jared is quite excited because I made a lot of compost for him:
He Sowed She Sewed 