A worker picks strawberries at Hugh Lowe Farms, near Maidstone, Kent. British strawberry farmers say 2025’s record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days has yielded the cream of the crop, with the harvested fruit bigger and sweeter than usual. — BEN STANSALL/AFP
British strawberry farmers say this year’s record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days have yielded the cream of the crop, with a bigger and sweeter harvest than usual.
Long periods of sun and cool nights provided “perfect” conditions for the strawberry harvest, according to James Miller from WB Chambers Farms.
