Thursday, January 9, 2014

Off Season Fruit

I am in love with the strawberries here.  Back home you can only get good delicious strawberries during the summer time and the ones you get after that are gross/not ripe.  Korea has it figured out.  The winter strawberries are some of the best I have ever had.  Every time we have them at lunch I ask for more.  They are just like the ones you get when the season is at its peak in the US, and it is the middle of winter here. 

I commented on it today to the VP and a horticulture teacher and found out why.  Apparently, they grow the strawberries differently during the wintertime.  First, they are grown in a green house, which helps with the growing.  The second change comes with what they are grown in.  According to the horticulture teacher, winter strawberries are grown in a water based device thing (this part was in Korean so I am a bit confused but I got the main point), while summer strawberries are raised in the soil.  It makes the strawberries sweeter and able to grow during the winter.  You learn something new everyday. 

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