In addition to the flavor profile, strawberry berries have many health benefits. Strawberries help to treat cardiovascular diseases, have a beneficial effect on the liver and biliary tract, it is recommended for female diseases and anemia. To preserve the healing qualities, it is important to know how to pick these berries correctly.
Necessary
flat, well-ventilated containers with low edges
Instructions
Step 1
Strawberries usually ripen by mid-June, depending on how much solar heat is given by the beginning of summer. But as soon as the first red dots appear on the meadows, it's time to take an empty container and go for strawberries. By the way, about the container: since this berry, unlike garden strawberries, is softer and wrinkles easily, it is better to leave three-liter jars, cans and buckets at home. Collect the strawberries in a bowl with a wide bottom and low edges.
Step 2
Transparent bowls, preferably with ventilated holes, work well for collection. By folding berries in them, you can control the condition of the lower layers - they give juice under the weight. It's even better if you have a wicker basket with you. The collected berries will be ventilated, and the temperature inside the basket will remain close to natural.
Step 3
For these purposes, plastic containers are also suitable, in which baked goods are usually sold. But before you lay the berries from them, make as many holes as possible in the bottom and walls of the container. Take not just one bowl or basket, but as many as possible, and then you will bring home whole berries, not strawberry gruel.
Step 4
To prevent the berries from crushing as long as possible, you can pick them together with the sepals. But then at home you will have to pick strawberries before eating or harvesting for the winter, and this is a double job. You can save shape and useful properties by collecting strawberries in bunches-bunches. If you decide to make such a bunch, in no case pluck the stems, but cut them off with a knife. By pulling out the stem, you disrupt the plant's root system.
Step 5
In order for the berries to retain their beneficial properties longer and not smear, they need to be picked in the morning after dew or in the evening, but vice versa, after the dew has fallen out. So the strawberries retain their shape longer and will not "melt" ahead of time. But you can eat the harvested berries at any time of the day.
