Brian Goodall is a fourth generation strawberry grower in the New Forest. <\/p>\n
His family’s strawberry farm near Lymington is still a popular pick-your-own attraction.<\/p>\n
“We have always been a good place to grow English early strawberries because of the proximity to the sea and our hopefully lack of late frost that will kill flowers. <\/p>\n
“So it’s always been a good spot with high light intensity as well.” <\/p>\n
With old varieties of strawberries – Royal Sovereign and Cambridge Favourite and Vigour – the south coast would have the first crops of strawberries each summer.<\/p>\n
But with a short picking season of only about three weeks, he recalled the need to get strawberries onto the train as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
“So they would start picking very early in the morning and start packing them as soon as they were picked.<\/p>\n
“They put covers on top of the trays and then run them down to Lymington Pier where there was a steam train waiting with a goods carriage.<\/p>\n
“It would then take the fruit straight from there at eight, nine o’clock in the morning up to Swanwick on the other side of Southampton.” <\/p>\n
In Swanwick, a train would be waiting to take an “immense” load of strawberries from growers across the country, bound for retailers and wholesalers as far as Cardiff, London, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Goodall is a fourth generation strawberry grower in the New Forest. His family’s strawberry farm near Lymington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}