Cherry crop booming in Limburg
They are bigger, juicier, and there are a lot more of them. Flanders’s cherry crop is the best in years
‘Like eating a praline’
There was no problem with frost this year or with hail storms as in recent years. Trees are not only producing more cherries, but they are riper and plumper than usual. “It’s like eating a praline,” one cherry grower told VRT.
Some Belgian cherries will wind up in local groceries, but most of them go towards making other products, like jam. This is because Flanders’s cherry harvest is unpredictable, causing supermarkets to buy up cherries from other countries, such as Greece and Spain.
“We hope that more people buy Belgian cherries this year,” Betty Slingers of the Belgian Fruit Auction told Metro. “Because of the weather, we have more cherries this year than we can export.”
The cherry harvest in Limburg will continue until at least the end of this week.
Photo courtesy igorphiltjens.be/Open VLD
