Sea buckthorn is not without reason called one of the most useful berries. After all, it serves as an excellent prophylactic, the healing properties of which are mentioned in ancient Greek writings. Nowadays, valuable berries have not lost their healing properties, and as soon as summer comes to an end, hostesses rush to stock up on vitamins. Consider the methods and devices for collecting sea buckthorn berries.
This plant is so commonplace that it is found in almost every area, in gardens and beyond. However, the process of harvesting sea buckthorn is not familiar to everyone. It is worth deciding in advance on the future use of the berry, the time of its collection depends on this. Sea buckthorn ripens at the end of August. If you plan to use it for compote, jam or fresh treats, then collect the fruits of the plant immediately after its botanical ripening. Later, the overripe berry will become an excellent raw material for making butter, jams and marmalade, thanks to its saturation with juice. Harvesting sea buckthorn is a very laborious process compared to other berries. Faced with it for the first time, you can be scared, feeling all the difficulties - sharp thorns on a branch, close proximity of berries to each other. In addition, the stalk is so short that the berries are easily crumpled in the picker's hands, releasing juice that can irritate the hands. The amount of harvest on a branch is always large, and picking berries separately is a monotonous and very long process. But you should not be afraid! Modern gardeners have come up with several ways to facilitate the process of picking sea buckthorn berries. First - take care of safety measures, prepare gloves and an apron. Sea buckthorn juice is so corrosive that if it gets on clothes, it will be impossible to wash it off. It is worth recalling that very often when it comes into contact with human skin, irritation and itching occur. So, after security measures are taken, proceed with the collection in one of the following ways:- Start collecting from the top of the branch, moving down to the crown. Use tongs or small scissors to pluck each short twig from the plant. This method is traditional and most profitable, although it takes a lot of time. A less expensive way is to cut the branches entirely, and at home to disassemble each berry. However, it has a significant drawback - the bush can suffer greatly, and it will take just as much time to "live" the collection of the house.
- The “roughest” and most simple method is freezing. It is suitable for the case when they plan to store sea buckthorn fresh, frozen, 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 break off much easier. It should be understood that cutting branches from a tree can harm it. The only thing, if you still decide to go this way - do not cut them at the same time, take breaks.
- Loop type "cobra". To make it, take a wooden handle and steel wire. Bend the last one into a loop and attach the base to the wooden handle. Squeeze the upper part of the loop with your fingers, after which it takes on the form of a “burning candle”. Also bend it to the sides. It is this kind of loop that resembles a snake. To harvest, put a loop on the fruit and cut off the stem with a sharp jerk. In this way, the berries, hidden even in hard-to-reach places, will be in your basket.
- The method described below is suitable for quick juicing. It is quite simple - put gloves on your hands, and place a container under the juice under the sea buckthorn branch. From the beginning of the branch, run your hand, squeezing the berries. Thus, the juice will flow directly into the substituted container.
Methods for harvesting sea buckthorn are as diverse as its properties are valuable and useful. All the difficulties and obstacles are worth these benefits, and if you adapt and gain a little experience in harvesting, the process will become entertaining and interesting.
Sea buckthorn contains a record amount of vitamins E and C, as well as B vitamins, manganese, iron, healthy oils, and serotonin. Its use is indicated to strengthen the immune system, with colds, atherosclerosis and high blood pressure. However, in order for the use of berries to bring the maximum benefit, it is important to collect and store them correctly.
Timing
Determining the time of harvesting the berries is important, since the benefits of the fruits depend on this, as well as the ease of their assembly. The timing when you can start harvesting depends on the variety of the plant: there are early-ripening varieties, and there are those that ripen by the middle or end of September.
What year is it in time for?
The beginning of fruiting of sea buckthorn begins 2-6 years after planting, more precise dates are called based on the variety and conditions of care. Earlier than others, Siberian varieties begin to bear fruit, later - Caucasian ones.
Sea buckthorn belongs to wind-pollinated plants, and there are bushes on which only female or male pistils are laid. For pollination, it is recommended to plant both female and male sea buckthorn at the rate of 1-2 male species per 4-5 female shrubs. Male plants should be planted on the side where the wind blows more often on the site.
It is important to create conditions suitable for the shrub to obtain a quality crop. Sea buckthorn loves loose soil, so on peat and clay soils it is better to equip drainage using sand. Lime is recommended for acidic soils. Shrubs should not be placed near trees with a voluminous crown, as well as planted next to currants, potatoes and strawberries - the plants will depress each other.
Sea buckthorn does not tolerate even short-term drying of the soil, therefore, during dry periods, it requires additional watering.
The start of fruiting can be accelerated by applying complex fertilizer for fruit trees every spring and pruning the young shoots that appear around the mother seedling.
What month is the cleaning?
The signal that the time has come to harvest is the intense color of the berries - they become bright orange, even carrot-colored. Ripe sea buckthorn berries tightly stick around the branch. If you press lightly on the berry, it lends itself to compression, and with a more active effort, juice flows out of the fruit. In general, the assembly period lasts from late August to mid-October.
- Early ripe varieties usually ripen in early August. However, there are exceptions here, for example, sea buckthorn "Chuyskaya" only by the end of August is maximally saturated with useful components and demonstrates the best taste palette.
- Late-ripening varieties harvested at the end of September, there are varieties of sea buckthorn, which are harvested after the first frost.
Assembly times also depend on weather conditions. If the berries are harvested after frost, then this should be done in cloudy weather. If you do this in sunny weather, then the skin of the berries thaws and, when plucked, is separated from the pulp.
The timing of the assembly of sea buckthorn also depends on the further method of processing. If you plan to use fresh berries or plan to make jam and fruit drinks from them, then you need to collect them in late August or early September, as soon as the fruits ripen. During this period, they contain the maximum amount of ascorbic acid and have a fairly dense structure.
After keeping the berries for another 4-5 days after ripening on the branches, you can make jams and marmalade from them. So, for example, for sea buckthorn oil, mature fruits are recommended to be kept on the branches for about two more weeks. In such berries there will be a lower content of vitamin C, but the yield of oil is greater.
Rules of procedure
The complexity of picking sea buckthorn is due to the peculiarities of its appearance - small berries with a short stalk tightly stick around the branches. Separating the berry without damaging the skin is not easy enough. However, today there are varieties that are distinguished by a longer, larger stalk, which somewhat facilitates the procedure for picking berries.
The following tips will help you harvest the right crop.
- Before work, you need to protect your hands with gloves, since sea buckthorn has thorns that can hurt them. It is recommended to protect clothes with an apron or not to put on new, expensive ones - berry juice can hopelessly ruin a thing.
- You need to start collecting from the top of the bush, gradually moving to the bottom.
- Gardeners have invented many devices and devices that simplify the assembly process, in addition, similar devices can be found in specialized stores. More about them will be discussed in the following chapters of the article.
Ways
The easiest way, of course, is to pick the berries by hand. However, with this method, there is a high probability of crushing the fruits and damaging them. You can prevent this by using nail scissors. This method is time-consuming and laborious; in the process, you can prick your hands on the thorns of a bush.
Among the popular and effective ways to harvest are cutting branches, using special devices. The latter can be homemade or purchased in specialized stores.
A common method is to cut branches with fruits: they can be frozen and, if necessary, pick the right amount of berries. If butter or other products are prepared from berries on a branch, then they are robbed at home, in more comfortable conditions.
Cutting branches should be done correctly, otherwise you can harm the plant. For sea buckthorn that bears fruit for more than 4-5 years, the following technology can be used: up to 25% of the branches are cut with secateurs while maintaining stumps of 5 cm. Sea buckthorn is harvested from the remaining part of the branches on the bush by hand. The shoots that appeared from the stumps will begin to bear fruit in 2-3 seasons. A year later, part of the branches that remained in the previous season is cut off. This method not only facilitates the process of picking fruits, but also has a rejuvenating effect on the plant. Branches need to be cut with secateurs, and not broken off.
On an industrial scale, the berry is removed by cutting the branches. In this form, it is transported. To obtain whole berries, sometimes the shrub is shaken or tapped, but this method can only be used for fruits that have survived frosts - slightly frostbitten.
So that the berries do not fall from a great height, several nearby branches should be tapped, and to “descent” the fruits, build some kind of slide from a pallet. That is, the berry first falls onto a pallet (from a small height), and then rolls into a container installed on the ground or onto a spread cellophane.
The choice of assembly method should be carried out taking into account the further technology of storage or processing of berries. If it is important to preserve the integrity of the shell and the juiciness of the berries, then they are cut on the branches. In the future, the branches can be hung in a well-ventilated area or frozen. In this form, the crop will remain until spring.
If the berries are consumed fresh, then you need to choose such an assembly technology in which the fruits do not crumple. For preserves and jams, you can not care too much about maintaining the integrity of the berries. Of course, fruits should also be removed with caution. Otherwise, juice will flow out of them.
Tricks to speed up the process
For picking berries, as already mentioned, many devices have been invented by savvy gardeners. Consider the most famous of them.
- Use of forceps, with which the stalks are cut off - the process promises to be long.
- Cobra device, which is a thin, but rather rigid wire, which has a loop at one end - a hook, at the other - a wooden handle. A branch with fruits is threaded into the loop, pressed and pulled down with a sharp movement by the handle. The stalks are cut off, and intact fruits are poured into the container.
- A scraper made of steel wire (for example, an old spring), having an elbow bend. The latter forms 2 teeth, which, when the spring is compressed, close into a ring. To activate the device, you need to put the scraper on the branch and compress the spring: the branch with berries will be in the ring. Advancing the scraper, remove the berries. Under the tree, you need to lay an old umbrella open or clean polyethylene so that the berries fall there. This method is considered one of the most effective, because it allows you to remove up to 20-25 kg of crop per day.
- Device "tube", made from a tin can. She needs to be shaped like a tube (4 mm in diameter, 100 mm long) and wrapped with electrical tape, keeping a small distance around the edges. A polyethylene bag is fixed at the bottom of the tube. Using the device is simple - you need to bring its upper part to the stalk, cutting off the berry. The fruits will roll down the tube and be collected in a bag. The latter changes or empties as it fills up.
- A slingshot in which a fishing line is stretched instead of an elastic band. Holding the branch with one hand, you need to attach the slingshot to that part of it that is closer to the trunk and with smooth, but confident movements, you should lead the slingshot towards you. The fishing line will cut the stalks, while maintaining the integrity of the skin.
- Crest- a special device that can be found in gardening stores or made by hand. Thanks to the rare teeth, the device skips the leaves, but cuts the berries. Removing sea buckthorn in this way can damage it, so the method is not used very often. This option is good if the integrity of the berries is not important to maintain (the fruits are collected for the preparation of oils, jams, juices, etc.).
- special harvester, which can have different dimensions and be made of different materials. Common to all devices is the presence of cutting elements in the form of several arcs and a built-in compartment where the fruits fall.
Frozen berries can be quickly removed without the use of special devices. To do this, just spread a clean cloth under the tree and shake the tree. You can also wrap a stick with rags and hit the branches with it. Only frozen berries are suitable for using the method.
It is important to know the following:
- If the berries are cut on the branches and then removed at home, then the young shoots and leaves of the plant can also be stored. They contain titanine, a large amount of ascorbic acid, tannins.
- Leave only tender shoots and leaves. If we talk about the targeted collection of the latter, then the best time for this is from the end of May to the beginning of June.
- If you are picking berries from high-growing branches, it is convenient to use a small bucket as a container, which is hung around your neck on a rope.
- It is usually not recommended to wash the collected berry, so as not to crush it. Therefore, before harvesting the fruit, it is advisable to rinse the bush with a sprayer.
For when and how to collect sea buckthorn, see the next video.
Sea buckthorn is considered a crop with regular and abundant fruiting. Therefore, harvesting for many gardeners is significantly difficult even with only four or five bushes. The fruits ripen in late August. Many people know how to collect sea buckthorn, but not everyone is aware that their use depends on the time of harvesting berries.
general information
If the harvest is supposed to be consumed fresh or to cook jam or compote, then harvesting should take place at the very beginning of its maturity - in late August - early September. During this period, the berries have the most ascorbic acid, besides, they are still quite hard and do not give juice. If it is supposed to make jam, butter or marmalade, then it is better to postpone the collection of sea buckthorn for a couple of weeks so that it becomes juicy and soft.
Since ancient times, this medicinal plant has been considered a storehouse of biologically active substances and vitamins.
how collect sea buckthorn
Ripe fruits are orange berries, very densely planted on the branches, of a rather small size. They are arranged so closely, as if they form a corncob, protected by hard thorns. In addition, the fruit has a very delicate skin.
Those who often encounter this culture know firsthand how laborious it is to collect sea buckthorn. When picking fruits in most varieties, especially overripe ones, the stalk is very easily torn off with a piece of skin. At the same time, abundant juice flows out of the berry, which eventually begins to corrode the hands.
Traditional collection methods
The simplest and “roughest” option for harvesting sea buckthorn is to carefully cut branches with berries from a tree and freeze them. In this case, frozen fruits come off easily and do not lose precious juice. The disadvantage of this method can be called the fact that it is suitable only when it is initially planned to store sea buckthorn frozen, and not squeeze juice out of it or make jam.
The most common, which is common to all varieties of berries, is harvesting with hands and small scissors - tweezers. This method, although popular, has its drawback: it takes a lot of time.
Some people prefer to cut whole branches from a bush, and at home to sort out berries from them. The method, although good, also has disadvantages. Firstly, in this way you can harm the tree, because the branches must be cut very, very carefully, which is not always possible. Secondly, if you adhere to this method, then you need to cut off all the branches from the bush, because sea buckthorn during the harvest period is literally strewn with fruits. But this cannot be done categorically, otherwise the plant will die. And, finally, at home, you still have to cut the berries one at a time, and it takes no less time than with a “live” collection.
Harvesting Secrets
How to collect sea buckthorn? As a rule, each gardener has his own technique. Some use an enameled bowl, hanging it for convenience around the neck at an optimal height for pouring the fruits picked by hand. Others make an ordinary slingshot with a string of fishing line or wire. The branch is held with the left hand, and the homemade sea buckthorn picker is held in the right. With the help of a tightly stretched string, the fruits seem to be combed. And as a result, juicy sea buckthorn is poured into a specially prepared and suspended tray. When to harvest in order to prepare preparations for the winter, gardeners will find out by the calendar. But how to do this - on account of this, not a single specialist can give an exact recommendation. How to collect sea buckthorn, the devices used for this - each person has his own rules and methods.
But one thing is for sure: the harvest must be urgently processed so as not to lose the precious juice. Therefore, most often sea buckthorn is not even washed. And if the bush in the garden is very dusty, then you can thoroughly wash it with water from a hose and let it dry during the day. And the next day you can start harvesting.
Folk tricks
There are plenty of homemade devices for collecting sea buckthorn. All of them aim to facilitate the harvesting process, and most importantly - to make it fast. In addition to the combs used for “combing” onto a tray, a bag and even an umbrella substituted from below, knives are also used. But the most popular folk fiction is the "cobra". To make it, you need a piece of wood for the handle and thin steel wire. The latter must be bent and made into a loop. And then, using an awl, attach to the handle, passing through the holes made in the tree. The top of the loop should be curved in such a way that it looks like the outline of the tip of a burning candle. And from the side it should look like a snake. Such a "cobra" perfectly "attacks" sea buckthorn, conveniently cutting off the stalks and extracting fruits located in inaccessible places.
The second most popular device that helps with such a complex process is the "tube" - another invention of craftsmen. For it, it is necessary to cut a blank from any tin can, make a tube of it one hundred millimeters long and a little larger in diameter than the berries themselves, which this device will collect. The tube must be wrapped with electrical tape, almost reaching its edges, and secured in a plastic bag. And then the fun begins. A tin tube with a plastic bag attached to it is brought with its upper edge to the stem and slightly presses on it. And a miracle: the berry itself smoothly rolls into cellophane.
Collection of juice
For those who do not want to bother making various devices or do not want to pick berries, because they use only sea buckthorn juice, you can resort to a very old method. But at the same time, you need to remember that sea buckthorn juice harms the skin of the hands, so the presence of clean cotton or cooking gloves is a must. A convenient container is placed under the branch with fruits, then with clean hands you need to slowly move it down from the base of the branch, squeezing the fruits so that juice flows out of them. In an hour, you can thus collect up to four liters of the most useful sea buckthorn juice, which is a real pharmacy in the garden.
Sea buckthorn is a healthy and tasty berry, so that harvesting brings satisfaction, and harvesting makes you happy at any time of the year, you need to know when to harvest sea buckthorn. It is also worth remembering that the timing of its ripening depends on the area of growth, climatic, weather conditions, and even on the plant variety.
Berries of early varieties are harvested in early August, late - from mid-September.
From ancient Greek, sea buckthorn literally translates as "brilliant horse." In ancient Greece, sick, weak horses were fed with its leaves, because at that time they were especially valuable animals. From such food, the horses became well-fed, strong. Their wool acquired shine, gloss.
Its name is quite understandable, the berries literally stick around the trunk and branches. It is a tall multi-stemmed dioecious shrub, on which the leaves appear after the flowers, which are pollinated only by the wind. In one place, it can grow for fifty years. In order for the plant to please with fruits, it is necessary to plant a female and male tree at a distance of up to ten meters. There are no fruits on the male, if planted in the center of the girl group, then one of them will be enough to pollinate eight females.
In the southern regions, sea buckthorn is grown on a large scale, breeders strive to constantly bring out all its new species with large berries. According to experienced gardeners, it is better to use seed propagation for planting on the site, this is an easy and excellent planting material. The tree grows strong, resistant to the adverse vagaries of nature, gives high yields.
What is the value of sea buckthorn?
Sea buckthorn is a unique product that is related to the olive tree. Due to the presence in the fruits of the interaction of several minerals, vitamins, acids, it has universal properties:
- berries, raw juice promote wound healing, ulcer treatment
- oil is used as a disinfectant, antimicrobial agent for the treatment of various skin lesions
- fruits are natural antibiotics that prevent fungal diseases, the appearance of harmful microbes
- beta-carotene in combination with vitamin C improves immunity
- vitamin E is used as an effective antioxidant
- essential fatty acids (and this is the same vitamin F), prevent the development of vascular atherosclerosis, normalize the work of the cardiovascular system
- provitamin A, vitamins C, E, F, when irradiated, are able to support cells and tissues of the body, protecting it from the appearance of new tumors and mutations. Strengthening the effect of each other, they work in a complex
Useful, medicinal substances found in fruits and sea buckthorn oil, when irradiated, participate in the process of regeneration of the walls, mucous membranes of the intestines, stomach. They are also successfully used in gynecology and cosmetology as an effective protective and regenerating agent.
But against the background of positive properties, sea buckthorn also has contraindications. The fruits can harm those who suffer from inflammatory processes in the liver, gallbladder, who are prone to allergies, therefore, in the production of oil, many allergens are removed from its composition.
The period of collecting useful berries
How to understand that sea buckthorn is ripe and what are ripe fruits? Its berries are small in size, rich orange in color, which sit tightly on the branch. If you slightly squeeze the fruit, and it lends itself to compression, you can start harvesting. And the characteristic bright coloration also indicates that they have reached botanical maturity. And to get oil, they are harvested during the period of full technical ripeness, when the fruits have accumulated enough biologically active substances. They fully ripen two weeks after they began to acquire their characteristic color.
Sea buckthorn ripens differently in different latitudes, but the optimal period is the end of August and the beginning of September. Before you collect it, you should determine the purpose of the use of berries. For fresh consumption, for compotes they are harvested during the period of botanical ripeness. At this time they are rich in ascorbic acid, solid, not releasing juice. To prepare jam, marmalade, jam, butter, you will have to wait two weeks. The berries will become juicy and soft.
What is the best way to collect healthy berries
Harvesting sea buckthorn in comparison with other shrubs may seem problematic at first glance. The berries sit tightly on a short stalk, which, in turn, clings tightly to the soft skin of the fruit. If it is soft, then it immediately wrinkles in the hands, the secreted juice unpleasantly pinches the skin, leaving irritation on it. The branches are strewn with thorns, which severely injure, causing unpleasant pain, and there are a huge number of berries on them. Collecting each separately, it will take a lot of time. If you start cutting whole bunches, you can harm the plant, so you have to look for a way out.
As they say, there are no hopeless situations. Our gardeners have long enjoyed safe and fast methods of harvesting these beneficial berries while respecting the rules. First, the berries should be separated from top to bottom. Secondly, it is better to wear an apron or a dressing gown for such an event, because the juice will definitely stand out from the berries, which will ruin the clothes due to the fact that the stains are not washed off.
Options for collecting sea buckthorn that you can use:
- Hard, but simple and fast - branches with fruits are carefully cut from the tree and frozen. In this form, the berries are easily torn off without much difficulty, and this is the advantage of this method. The disadvantage is that it is convenient only if the berries are stored frozen, and it will no longer be possible to make jam and get juice from them.
- Ordinary - by hand, with the help of special scissors, used for almost all berries. Its main disadvantage is that the process is also time consuming. There are other disadvantages - you can ruin the plant by inaccurate use of the tool, cutting all the branches to a single one. Then at home, in more comfortable conditions, you can separate the berry by berry. But there are also advantages of this method - if responsibly, carefully consider the work (leave at least five centimeters of a branch at the trunk), the plant will remain healthy, the berries will not be damaged, and the harvest will be maximum and of high quality. The next season, new shoots will definitely appear in the places of the correct cut.
If the method of cutting branches is used to collect sea buckthorn, the tree needs temporary respite. To guarantee new crops, it is better to refuse this method.
The orange beauty differs from other berries in that it is completely impossible to wash the harvested ripe one. For this, it is most convenient to use a hose, and wet berries on a tree dry faster and well.
At the time when sea buckthorn ripens, it is time to stock up on simple, convenient devices for such an event to collect its fruits:
small net
It is made of tin and a plastic bag. A piece of tin is twisted into a tube ten centimeters long. Its diameter should be slightly larger than the size of the berries. A bag is attached to one end with tape or tape. Walking and pressing the tube on the branch, the berries are in the bag
The loop
Because of its shape among gardeners is called "cobra". The wire is bent into the shape of a candle wick and attached to a wooden handle. In this way, it is possible to separate hard-to-reach clusters on high branches.
Slingshot
In appearance, this is an ordinary children's slingshot, only instead of an elastic band, a tightly stretched fishing line for catching fish or wire is used. If you run such a string along a branch, the berries fall off into the trays, spread out cloth or oilcloth.
The process of harvesting juice is not particularly difficult. Some gardeners squeeze it out with gloved hands from berries right on the tree, then filter it.
There is also the most common, easiest and fastest way to collect sea buckthorn. You should wait for the first frosts, spread the bedding around the tree and just shake the branches. Crumbling berries are well moved from spoiled specimens, debris and leaves are removed. This option is most suitable for large-scale plantings, during the season of abundant harvest of sea buckthorn, but it is suitable for long-term storage of only frozen berries.
Sea buckthorn leaves were not left without attention. It is popular in cooking and is used as a seasoning for fish and meat dishes. It is especially valued for its medicinal properties, if the gastrointestinal tract is disturbed, with atherosclerosis, hypertension. The greatest amount of useful substances in them accumulates before the flowering of the shrub (month of June). Leaves can also be collected while picking berries.
The harvest of sea buckthorn can be preserved in any way - prepare delicious blanks, chop fresh berries and mix with sugar, freeze with branches or individual berries, dry, soak. There are plenty of options to feast on healthy, fragrant berries, and at the same time improve your health.
Even in ancient times, people discovered sea buckthorn as a medicinal plant. This amazing berry contains a large amount of vitamins and biologically active substances necessary for the human body. It can be used in different types of preparation: in the form of jam, in the form of marmalade, in the form of juice and in the form of oil. And recently it has become very fashionable and popular to freeze berries in freezers. This makes it possible to use fresh sea buckthorn at any time of the year.
Today we will learn how to collect sea buckthorn. This process really requires a special approach and more detailed consideration. If you start picking sea buckthorn berries without a certain amount of knowledge, you are unlikely to get a positive result quickly. I must say, moreover, you run the risk of not getting any positive result at all, but remaining with your hands punctured into blood, and with an irresistible desire to cut down a tree to the very root and never grow it again.
So, let's start studying the question posed.
You need to start collecting sea buckthorn from the top of the branch, and gradually moving towards the trunk. Keep in mind that ripe berries are very easy to pop in your hands and the juice splashes in all directions. And in order not to suffer later with removing stains from clothes, before you start harvesting sea buckthorn, you need to put on an old dressing gown or apron.
If you are going to transport sea buckthorn from the dacha home, it is better for you to cut the branches from the tree along with the fruits and put them in a box. So you will rather save the fruits and take them to their destination intact. Berries taken from the branches are difficult to preserve during transportation.
Experienced gardeners use a special device to collect sea buckthorn berries. This device is a loop of thin, but very strong rope, wire or fishing line. The loop is attached to the base of the branch and with a light but jerky movement of the hand, you can “cut off” all the berries from it. Previously, under the branch you need to put a wide container into which the fruits will fall. This method is good especially in cases where the berries are in dense thickets, which are difficult to reach by hand.
While harvesting sea buckthorn, many people use small scissors or a blade. The most inventive amateur gardeners use a comb to comb berries from tree branches.
There is a way to collect sea buckthorn, which is considered the most accurate. With it, all the berries remain intact, do not choke during picking, and do not scatter around. This method involves the presence of a plastic bag to which a tin tube is attached. You bring the tube to the base of the berry, guide the fruit into the tube with your finger and the berry, rolling down it, falls into the bag. When the bag is full, you can harvest the bucket and start refilling it.
The most correct way to collect sea buckthorn fruits is the winter or late autumn method. This is done in the following way. When the first frost hits and you see that all the sea buckthorn berries are frozen, take a large tarp and spread it under the sea buckthorn tree. Then take a stick and begin to apply light blows to the trunk or branches of the tree. In this case, the berries will easily crumble. When all the fruits have fallen, you can easily pour them from the tarpaulin into a container in which you will store or transport sea buckthorn.
Having thus collected a valuable harvest, you will provide yourself and your family with a tasty, very useful product for the whole year, until the next harvest.