How to collect sea buckthorn

Sea buckthorn is called one of the most useful berries. After all, it serves as an excellent preventive tool, whose medical properties are mentioned in the ancient Greek scriptures. Nowadays, valuable berries did not lose their healing properties, and as soon as summer comes to completion, the hosts are in a hurry to stock vitamins. Consider ways and fittings for collecting sea buckthorn.

This plant is so ordinary, which is found almost on each site, in the gardens and not only. However, the process of harvesting the sea buckthorn is not familiar to everyone. It is necessary to determine the future use of the berry in advance, it is precisely its collection time. Ripening sea buckthorn falls at the end of August. If the plans to use it for a compote, jam or fresh delicacy, then collect the fruits of the plant immediately after its botanical maturation. Later, the overripe berry will become excellent raw material for the manufacture of oil, jams and marmalade, thanks to saturation of it with juice.

The harvest of sea buckthorn is a very laborious process in comparison with other berries. Faced with her for the first time, you can be afraid, feeling all the difficulties - sharp spikes on the branch, close to the location of the berry to each other. In addition, the fruit is so short that the berries will easily be in the hands of the collector, highlighting the juice that can leave irritation in the hands. The amount of crop on the branch is always large, and collect on berry separately - monotonous and very long process. But you should not be afraid! Modern gardeners have come up with several ways to facilitate sea buckthorn berries. First - take care of safety measures, prepare gloves and apron. The sea buckthic juice is so inadequate that when it gets on his clothes, it will be impossible to wash it. It is worth reminding that very often irritation and itching occurs with its skin with human skin.

So, after security measures are taken, proceed to the collection in one of the following ways:

Start the collection from the top of the branch, moving down - to the crown. With the help of forceps or small scissors, repent each short twig with a crop. This method is traditional and the most profitable, although it takes a lot of time. Less costly way - to trim the branches of the whole, and at home to disassemble every berry. However, he has a significant drawback - a shrub can suffer greatly, and the time on the "alive" collection of the house will also go away.
"Rough" and the most simple method is freezing. It is suitable for the case when the sea buckthorn is planned to be stored in fresh, ice cream or use it for cooking compotes. To do this, cut the branches entirely and put them in the freezer. In such a frozen form, they are much easier to break. It is worth understanding that cutting off the branches from the tree can harm him. The only thing that was still decided to go this way - do not cut them off simultaneously, take breaks.

Gardeners-craftsmen came up with special fittings for collecting sea buckthorn. Some of them:

Cobra type loop. For its manufacture, take a wooden handle and steel wire. Last beate in the loop and attach the base to the wooden handle. The upper part of the loop squeeze your fingers, after which it acquires the image of a "burning candle". Also bend it on the sides. This kind of loop resembles a snake. For harvesting, put a loop on the fruit and a sharp jerk cut the fruit. In this way, berries hidden even in hard-to-reach places will be in your basket.
The following method is suitable for rapid juice squeezing. He is simple enough - put on the hands of the gloves, and in the sea buckthorn branch, put the container under the juice. From the beginning of the branch, spend the hand, squeezing berries. Thus, the juice will flow directly into the substituted container.

Methods for collecting the sea buckthorn crop are so diverse as its properties are and useful. All difficulties and obstacles are of these utilities, and to adversely and acquire a little experience in harvesting - the process will become entertaining and interesting.