When forest strawberries ripen and when can it be harvested?

Today many berries are sold in supermarkets, but they do not find wild forest strawberries, which have a special aroma. This gift of the forest can be collected only at certain times, once a year.That is why many gardeners who have plots near the forest territory, as well as wildlife lovers, want to know in which month this berry ripens.

When you collect a basket of wild strawberries in time, you can treat your loved ones or cook a special jam. Depending on the region, the period of appearance of ripe berries on the small edges may vary. In the middle belt of our country, in the Urals and in Siberia, wild strawberries have ripened since June 15.

It also happens that ripening occurs later. The reason may be bad weather (cloudy and rainy days). It can also happen earlier if the plant had enough sun and moisture during development. In the southern regions of the country, the ripening period is in May, and in Moscow, summer residents go out to the forests only in mid-July due to lack of sun.

At the beginning of ripening, when the berries are just beginning to turn red, they have a not very pleasant sour taste. Rarely, but it happens that strawberries even taste bitter. This is normal. Only the first wave is characterized by such taste, the other berries will be sweeter. The weather greatly affects the taste, so you should pay attention to it.

With constant rains and the absence of the sun, the fruits are unsweetened and tasteless. At the same time, they are watery and resemble simple grass in taste. Such strawberries will quickly turn into a "porridge" in the basket, because it is too soft. If nature decided to arrange a drought, then the berries will be small, similar to dried fruits. But with balanced weather, the scarlet fruits delight with aroma and juiciness.

For picking berries, it is better to use large containers, where they can be distributed along the bottom, and not laid with a large slide. You can collect many parts of strawberries, not only fruit. These are leaves and flowers, which should be carefully picked and dried on a burlap so that they do not stick. From the berries are boiled compotes, jams, jams. They are also frozen by chafing with sugar. You can dry the fruit and brew them with tea.

You will learn more about how to collect forest strawberries from the following video.

On the garden plot you can also plant strawberry bushes. If the plant is well rooted and take root, it will give a good harvest. The main thing is to choose a sunny place for it. On the garden bed, this berry ripens faster, because it does not grow in the shade. Her collection begins in May. The cultivated field berry does not possess such beneficial properties as wild, although its fruits are larger and more fragrant.

Strawberries growing in the forest have certain signs:

• rhizome thick, has a brown color;
• short antennae;
• stems are thin;
• on flowers no larger than two centimeters there are pointed petals;
• fruits are small;
• the berry is poorly separated, often remains the core;
• the pulp has a pronounced aroma.

In wild conditions, strawberry bushes are low, they cannot always be found in the grass, but, as a rule, their large accumulation falls on the sunny sides of the hillocks. In the garden, the plant grows taller, it produces more ovaries, so the harvest is richer.

If you know the season in which forest strawberries ripen in the forest, then you can collect a few basket balls of a product useful for the body. Berries will not only please with their taste, but will also become a good helper in strengthening immunity and combating viral diseases.