What berries it is time to collect, and which is late

Gathering berries with an exquisite taste and aroma is a pleasure! Despite the fact that summer quietly turns to fall, some plants are in the midst of fruiting. But there are those who will be able to try only after a year.

Until next season

The dates of harvesting berry crops cannot be determined exactly: they are different in different regions, depending on climate, weather and varietal characteristics. But almost everywhere in May and June the collection of lingonberries, blueberries and healing crowberries ended. If the berry is not prepared, then it is too late to do it.

The formation of the fruits of wild strawberries, having stopped for 2-3 weeks, will resume again in July. Then, in the first half of August, the berries will appear again, but not in large numbers. Some varieties of blueberries in June are fruitless; several of them will be picked in July and August. But freshly picked cloudberries and cranberries at the beginning of the second summer month cannot be found on the market.

Strawberries and raspberries of early ripening moved to the plots. And only gardeners growing late and remontant species and hybrids of crops continue the collection.

July - the height of the berry pore

Summer residents remove mid-ripe raspberries and vitamin currants of early and medium ripening, making preparations for the winter. The height of summer is the ripening period of early blackberries. The flowers of her later relatives are transformed into a numerous ovary. By the end of July, it is time to completely complete the harvesting of berries on currant and gooseberry bushes. The stalks of remontant raspberries are still hung with drupes of amber and scarlet shades.

In Siberia, Kamchatka and the Far East, the tsar's princess or northern raspberries, which received the name due to the unusual pineapple-peach flavor, were ripening at that time. Growing in the north of the dye and bone with a characteristic taste (northern pomegranate) are experiencing a peak of fruiting and, in a processed form, begin to migrate to refrigerators, cellars, cellars.

Blackberry time

The only berry that can be found in the forest in the first two to three weeks of August is strawberries. Buttocks say that sometimes cloudberries are also found in places. In gardens and orchards, the ovary of blackberry culture is intensively transformed into lush caps of burgundy-violet color. So it’s high time to start harvesting its juicy fruits. If raspberries grow constantly in the country, fruiting constantly, then the berry season can last until October-November.

And in anticipation of the winter, it is time to take care of the future harvest: cut out the prolific plants and old branches, feed them and water them abundantly. And he will please again, but after a year.