Peninsula all-media reporter Sun Guidong
In recent days, it is the season when cherries are ripe, and cherry picking has become the first choice of many citizens. The number of tourists has also increased compared to previous years. The reporter interviewed the growers in Laoshan and Chengyang and learned that this year's temperature is low, the precipitation is small, although the yield is low, but the taste is much better, and the picking gardens in some places are even picked in a week or so. The earliest mature South Slope community in Chengyang used to be able to pick for about half a month, but this year, two-thirds of it has been picked in about a week. At present, cherries are the best time to pick, and they can be picked for about 10 days. After the cherry is picked, soon the large cherry blossom beads will be on the market again, and the public can still continue to pick them.
Cherry picking
Low temperatures and less precipitation This year's cherries are sweeter
"Don't look at this year's cherries, but they are very sweet," said Lan Dama, a grower in Beizhai on May 16, who is 70 years old this year and has been growing cherries here for nearly 40 years. Its own cherry picking garden is more than two acres, and there are more than 200 cherry trees, which is relatively large among the self-employed households.
Aunt Lan said that last weekend she could exhaust herself, and she also ran to the mountain for twenty or thirty times a day to lie down, taking tourists to the picking garden. The number of guests in a group is not fixed, some are a family of three, some are five or six people together. Roughly speaking, there are about seventy or eighty people a day.
Aunt Lan is picking cherries ready to sell
Their cherries ripened slightly later, and now they are still hanging on the branches, charging 30 yuan per person. If you want to take it home, a pound of cherries is 15 yuan. Aunt Lan said that when the cherries bloomed this year, the temperature was relatively low. Coupled with the lack of precipitation, the cherry is not too big, but the taste is very good. Compared with previous years, the yield is lower. For them, the income is basically the same. This year's production is low, and the price is also selling higher. Although there were many people picking last weekend, the sales were not good, mainly because it was too congested, and tourists did not have time to stop and buy cherries. On the contrary, on the day of the working people, many tourists who drive will stop to buy a few boxes when they pass by the side of the road.
Many tourists choose to go to Dalao Cherry Valley on weekdays to play and pick
Nearly 600 visitors on Monday are about three times as many as they are per year old
May 16 happens to be a weekday on a Monday, and during the cherry picking season in previous years, the working day should be off-season. At about 11:00 a.m., the reporter drove all the way along the Corniche to Dalao Cherry Valley. Compared with usual, there is a significant increase in vehicles on the road. There was also small-scale congestion on some sections.
After arriving at the North House, many cherry growers at the intersection placed bamboo baskets, not only cherries but also some cherry beads. This year's price is relatively high, a little better cherry, 15 yuan a catty. The reporter saw at the entrance of the park in Dalao Cherry Valley that although it was a weekday, there were still people who went to pick from time to time. In addition to some self-driving tourists, there are also some buses that come to Visit Cherry Valley together.
Wang De, the person in charge of Dalao Cherry Valley, said that compared with previous years, the enthusiasm of tourists to pick this year is even higher. Especially this past weekend, there was congestion on major roads. On weekends, the number of tourists is about 2,000 people a day, compared with about 3,000 in previous years. There are two main reasons for the decrease in the number of people, on the one hand, the epidemic prevention and control, in order to control the flow of people, the park will control the scale after reaching a certain number of people. After the finished tourists leave the park, other tourists will be allowed to enter. The number of people in the park has decreased, and this part of the population has concentrated in the cherry orchards of the surrounding villagers. On the other hand, the weekend traffic is too large, and the surrounding traffic has reached saturation, which also makes many citizens choose other cherry orchards for picking.
The enthusiasm for cherry picking is still much higher than in previous years. In previous years, it was the most crowded on weekends, but on weekdays, the number of tourists decreased dramatically. This year's low season is not light, for example, this Monday morning the number of visitors has reached more than 400. Between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., there will be another wave of peak passenger flow, which can be roughly estimated to reach 600 people a day. In previous years, there were generally only about 200 working days. So overall, there are more tourists this year.
The picking fee has dropped from 80 yuan to 30 yuan, and the income has been higher
Speaking of this year's new initiatives, Wang De, the head of Dalao Cherry Valley, said that the most obvious thing is to watch the cherry blossoms start to charge, and the price of cherry picking has dropped from 80 yuan per person to 30 yuan per person.
Every spring, the cherry blossoms of The Great Lao Cherry Valley are beautiful and attract many tourists to enjoy the flowers. Prior to this, the flowers were free to come, which also created new problems. Many tourists flocked in, generating a lot of garbage. The staff had to clean up for ten days to be completely cleaned up.
Starting this year, there will be a fee of 20 yuan to come here to enjoy the flowers. These incomes include, on the one hand, the cost of cleaning up garbage by staff, and on the other hand, as income from scenic spots.
At the same time that the flower viewing began to charge, the scenic spot also adopted a policy of benefiting the people. From the original into the park to pick 80 yuan a person, down to 30 yuan. The price is more close to the people, and the picking price of the surrounding villagers is basically the same.
Wang De said that the Dalao Cherry Valley not only has a scenery to play, but also can be picked, which is why many tourists come to pick on weekdays. In addition, there are some people who go to the park with the group and pick while playing. Although the price of picking has decreased, overall, the income has increased a lot.
Parts of the community are too "bald", and about two-thirds of them are picked up in a week or so
"If it weren't for the blockage, there would be more tourists picking," Yang, the relevant person in charge of the Cherry Mountain Club in Qingdao Shanseyu, said in an interview with reporters on May 16.
When the cherries are ripe on weekends, the main roads to Chengyang and Laoshan are blocked. Due to the epidemic, although there are not many foreign tourists. However, the enthusiasm of local citizens for picking is even higher than in previous years.
The reporter learned that located in the cherry valley of Shan seyu in the upper reaches of Laoshan Reservoir, is a traditional cherry planting area, with a total of 8 administrative villages, basically every household grows cherries, and the total planting area of cherries is more than 4,000 mu. Like the North House, the cherries here are prestigious. Every year in May, tourists flock to the harvest.
Manager Yang introduced that compared with previous years, there are more tourists this year. In the two days of the weekend, the number of tourists in cherry valley is about 13,000 to 14,000 per day, which is 300 or 400 more than in previous years. Although the increase is not much, it is mainly limited by the carrying capacity of the entire Cherry Valley. Most of the picking gardens are on the mountain territory, the traffic is not so developed, and there are relatively few parking places. Even if more tourists come, there is no way to accept them.
Mr. Yang, a grower in the Nanpo community, said that this year's cherries are highly sweet, coupled with less precipitation, the taste is very good, and there is no worry about sales. When many people come to play, they buy a few pounds to go home, and some large customers even buy four or five hundred pounds to give away.
Compared to previous years, this year's cherry picking is significantly faster. On the one hand, due to the reduction in production, on the other hand, more people come to pick. Their community had three or four hundred acres of cherry orchards, and in a week or so, almost two-thirds of the cherries had been picked.
Cherry ripening time is sooner or later Starting next week, cherry beads will begin to be on the market in large numbers
Manager Yang, the relevant person in charge of the Cherry Mountain Association in Qingdao Shanseyu, said that the cherry picking season is relatively short, generally only half a month. These two days the cherries enter the peak season, and they can still be picked for eight or nine days.
However, the environment of each community is different, and the time of maturity is also slightly different. From the bottom of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, the time to mature is the back, and the earliest South Slope community began to pick around May 10. The latest community of bees, almost four or five days late, these two days will gradually enter the large-scale harvesting period, probably until the 25th of this month.
However, citizens who can't eat cherries don't have to worry. Since the beginning of this weekend, the cherry picking has come to an end, and the large cherry beads are about to start on the market again. Wang De, the person in charge of Da Lao Cherry Valley, said that the ripening period of cherry beads is followed by cherries, and the picking time is also about half a month. Citizens who can't taste cherries don't have to worry, and soon they will be able to eat large and sweet cherry beads.