Fruit growers in Luxembourg gave a rather mixed assessment of this year's harvest. According to the main stakeholders, the spring was too wet on average, and the following months were too dry and hot.
As fruit growers in Luxembourg are generally equipped with nets to protect the fruit from hail or sunburn – filtering 18% of the light – the quality of the harvest is relatively good. The apples had a good year, some varieties took on slightly larger shapes after the frost, a situation that was reversed for pears, which shrunk a little for the same reasons.
In Limpach, between 75 and 80 tons of apples were harvested. Meanwhile, the harvest was less bad across the border in Germany, where the frost did not have too much impact on the fruit. However, the harvest generally proved to be more complicated for German producers as seasonal workers had difficulties travelling to Germany to help local fruit farmers.
