How to pick your own fruit
Follow our essential guide for everything from picking tips to our favourite fruit farms
How to know if the fruit’s ripe
- How to pick your own fruit
- What to take
- When’s best to go
- How to know if the fruit’s ripe
- Find your nearest farm
- Our favourite 5 fruit farms
Make sure all that effort doesn't go to waste!
* Plump, firm and big berries tend to be the ripest, but for if you want more flavour, try the smaller ones.
* Apple picking's a doddle - as long as they're firm and bruise-free, they will always be ripe.
* For cherries and grapes, the key is fullness of colour - and the bigger the better!
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