We don't have any strawberries planted this year in the garden. We generally try to grow as many things that we eat as possible. For those items that we don't grow, we try to purchase items locally grown. Every year we try to purchase strawberries from the 4-H Club. They sell berries that are grown over in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Ponchatoula is a small town in Tangipahoa Parish that calls itself the strawberry capitol of the world.
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When I put these in the car on my commute home, the strong fragrance of strawberries permeated the vehicle and I couldn't wait to get home and eat some. We washed them and cut the green stem and leaves off the tops of the strawberries. Then we laid them out on trays and froze them. Once they were completely frozen, we poured them into gallon freezer bags.
We'll pull these out and make smoothies, pies, jelly, and other sweet delicacies. So between the dewberries and strawberries, we've got a lot of berries in the freezer (and we haven't harvested our blueberries yet!)
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