How to collect berries?
Almost every summer resident has ever picked berries. Throughout the summer period, these or those varieties are ripening. About when ripen, for example, rose hips, you can find out in the article When to collect the dog rose.
To keep the berries longer, it is necessary to properly assemble and process them. In such cases, certain knowledge and skills are required.
Berry picking at one time
Berries of different varieties require a differentrelations. Berries are best collected in the morning or evening hours, at this time there is no strong scorching sun. Some varieties must be harvested at a time when all the fruits have ripened, for example, red and white currants, gooseberries. It is better to leave the stalk, and the currant can be torn off with brushes. The packaging for the harvest must be clean and dry. Suitable basket, plastic containers, buckets. It is not recommended to choose tare too large, otherwise the lower berries will be crushed.
Picking berries in several receptions
Sometimes the berries should be collected gradually, withbreaks in 2-3 days. Then the ripe will not overripe, and the green will be suitable for collection. This applies to raspberries, blackberries, black currants, strawberries. For long-term storage, it is necessary to tear them with stems. Usually ripe fruit is very soft, so care is needed to not damage the surface of the fruit. Raspberry, blackberries are collected in small baskets with a bottom covered with non-rigid material.
Collect any berries you need to start from the lower branches, gradually moving to the top. Special devices for tearing fruit can be used for solid varieties and species - viburnum, mountain ash.
Recommendations for harvesting berries in the forest
- To collect berries in the forest you need a plastic bucket or a wicker basket, before going to the forest, you need to treat open areas of skin and clothing with mosquito repellent.
- Some types of berries, such as blueberries, lingonberries can be harvested using a special combine.
- Forest berries are collected together with peduncles, and at home they are already cleaned, washed and dried.
- Do not put the berries too tightly in a container, so you can crumple them.
- In the forest, various berries ripen throughout the summer and autumn.
More interesting information you can find in the section Berries.
