💡 Tips & recipes

How to tell ripe fruit, how to pick it so it keeps, how to store it — and what to cook with your harvest. Choose a crop:

• 🍓StrawberriesOutdoors from late April (Dalmatia, Istria) to late June (inland); earlier from greenhouses.
• 🍒CherriesMay and June; earliest in Dalmatia, inland from late May.
• 🫐BlueberriesMid-June to August, depending on the variety and region.
• 🍎ApplesSummer varieties in August, autumn and winter varieties September to October.
• 🍇GrapesLate August (Dalmatia) to October (inland).
• 🟣FigsJuly to October on the coast and in Istria; some varieties give an earlier summer crop too.
• 🍊MandarinsOctober – December, mainly in the Neretva valley.
• 🍅TomatoesOutdoors July to September; from greenhouses June to October.