[deleted] t1_jeedj8t wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:26 PM

Without those workers strawberries would be very expensive though. Maybe I, or someone else, will try to build a robot specialized in plucking strawberries to solve this issue

Aikeko t1_jeevj5i wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:41 PM

Would strawberries be very expensive if more people were growing them at home? If you have a pot and a sunny corner, you can grow strawberries indoors (and a lot of other stuff, albeit in smaller quantities than if you have a yard). Bring back gardening, I say.

oxygenium92 t1_jeg3hbm wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:29 PM

Yes and no. For easy to grow varieties best you can get is 400-500grams of fruit per plant, so if you want anything close to a yield you need more than a pot of dirt, at least small plot of land with couple dozens of plants.

Aikeko t1_jeh2m25 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:36 PM

My family used to have a patch with maybe 30 plants in like 4 sqm of our small out-of-town garden plot. We had so many strawberries! We'd bring home buckets at a time and make jams for winter. It was great.

Now I buy maybe 1kg / year because they are so expensive. After the experience of growing our own food some 25 years ago, I can't justify the current prices at all. Unfortunately, I currently suck at gardening on my balcony, but it's a learning process.

I guess what I'm saying is... We humans don't actually need all that much.