This year's weather has helped the farm near Peterborough report a record-breaking crop.
A common assumption is that the number-one complaint from farmers is about the unpredictable British weather.
Mr Ivens, 61, put it all down to the perfect weather conditions which he said had helped produce 18 tonnes of the fruit."Strawberries are like us – they don't like to be woken up late... they prefer a gentle start," said Mr Ivens, who owns Hill Farm, Chesterton. "Temperatures were in the high teens, early 20s. The sugars could then develop to create a really plump, sweet, juicy strawberry."Plenty of rain in spring with cool conditions early on set things up for a huge strawberry crop"Pick-your-own farms are pretty rare these days. Back in the 1980s we had four or five in the local vicinity but now we are about the only one left," he said.
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