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- Pick blackberries properly
- The season for picking blackberries
- Pick blackberries from wild plants in nature.
- The right technique when picking the blackberries
- Tips & Tricks
Pick blackberries properly
While berry fruits such as gooseberries and redcurrants are rather insensitive to harvesting due to their round shape and firm shell, the gentle picking of blackberries requires a bit more tact.
The season for picking blackberries
Already in May and June, the flowers on the blackberry branches contribute to the sea of colors in the garden, forest and meadow. Nevertheless, it takes most of the locations until about the end of July, until the ripe fruits can then be harvested until autumn. For cultivars in the home garden, the season can start a little earlier, when the trellis for climbing blackberries is led close to a sunlit wall along. The care of the blackberries in the shape of a trellis ensures by the improved solar radiation on all parts of the plant that sometimes a little earlier fruits are deep black and sweet.
Pick blackberries from wild plants in nature.
If you take summer walks along woods and along banks to pick blackberries, be sure to explain the difference between blackberries and possibly poisonous berries to young children. The snacking directly from the shrub is tempting, but also dangerous because of the danger of fox tapeworm. However, a danger can also be excluded when harvesting wild blackberries, if only fruits from about knee height are harvested and, moreover, all blackberries at home are first thoroughly cleaned with water.
The right technique when picking the blackberries
To harvest wild or farmed blackberries you need the following items:
Tips & Tricks
The strong coloring of the blackberry juice may be annoying when picking. But it can also be used wonderfully as a biological color for coloring foods, juices and ice creams. To do this, simply sort the crushed fruits into an extra bowl, as they would make the intact fruit in the fridge spoil even faster than usual. Then they are pureed and can be used for different recipes.