The strawberry picking season has kicked off outside Moscow. Correspondents from RIA Novosti's "In Moscow" project spent a day in a strawberry field and learned the difference between different types of strawberries, what kind of people go strawberry picking and how many strawberries you can take home.
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaThe strawberry picking season has kicked off outside Moscow. Correspondents from the In Moscow website spent a day in a strawberry field and learned the difference between different types of strawberries, what kind of people go strawberry picking and how many strawberries you can take home.

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© RIA Novosti . Ksenia Sidorova
The strawberry picking season has kicked off outside Moscow. Correspondents from the In Moscow website spent a day in a strawberry field and learned the difference between different types of strawberries, what kind of people go strawberry picking and how many strawberries you can take home.
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaPicking strawberries in a field outside Moscow.

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Picking strawberries in a field outside Moscow.
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaThe strawberries are picked in the morning: the garden strawberries ripen overnight and the next day if they are not collected they will start to go bad.

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The strawberries are picked in the morning: the garden strawberries ripen overnight and the next day if they are not collected they will start to go bad.
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaUnlike store-bought strawberries which keep for several days, garden strawberries must be eaten the same day, which is why all those picked go straight on sale in Moscow and the Moscow region.

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© RIA Novosti . Ksenia Sidorova
Unlike store-bought strawberries which keep for several days, garden strawberries must be eaten the same day, which is why all those picked go straight on sale in Moscow and the Moscow region.
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaPicking garden strawberries in a field outside Moscow.

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Picking garden strawberries in a field outside Moscow.
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaThe crew leader carefully checks the strawberries that have been picked

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The crew leader carefully checks the strawberries that have been picked
© RIA Novosti . Ksenia SidorovaA strawberry field outside Moscow.

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A strawberry field outside Moscow.