The best time to harvest blueberries
If the weather conditions are favorable, the season begins for the Collect of blueberries around the beginning of July. Because the fruits on the bushes do not all ripen at the same time, but only gradually ripe the delicious fruits can sometimes be harvested into September. At the Pick of the fruits, you should make sure that only really blue and fully ripe fruits are removed from the branches, as blueberries do not ripen after the harvest.
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- Only harvest blueberries when they are really ripe
- Store and store blueberries correctly
- Harvest blueberries with cultivated blueberries in your own garden
Tools for harvesting
Whether in the forest or with the Blueberries in the garden, if possible, you should have the following items ready for harvest:
- one or more bowls
- a cloth to clean the fingers of blueberry juice
- a blueberry comb for faster harvesting
A blueberry comb consists of many wire tines arranged in parallel and a collecting container. You can use it to brush through the branches of the blueberries so that ripe berries can be scraped off into the collecting container. However, this method also catches unripe fruits, so that a visual inspection must be carried out in the same way as when the berries are picked by hand.
Transport and process correctly
Blueberries do not keep for too long after they are harvested, especially if they are crushed. For this reason, they always wanted to use bowls for the blueberry harvest that they did not fill to the brim. The fewer blueberries there are on top of each other in the bowl, the less damage the delicate fruits will be. Before each consumption, blueberries from the forest should be washed thoroughly or boiled during further processing in order to avoid the danger of the fox tapeworm. Blueberries can be used in the kitchen to make jams, compotes and cakes.
Tips & Tricks
So from Cultivated blueberries If enough fruit can be harvested again and again for up to 30 years, you should take the blueberry bushes regularly cut. Remove the older twigs that can be recognized by the bark, because blueberries only bloom a lot on young twigs.
