Berries

Plums contain many vitamins and minerals, normalize digestion and remove toxins from the body. They are very tasty and healthy. It’s just a pity that the plum harvest doesn’t last long. The plum season lasts only one month - from late August to late September. Fresh plums have little storage. Therefore, it is worth learning how to prepare this healthy and tasty berry for the winter. And this can be done in different ways.

Watermelon belongs to the pumpkin family. This is a melon crop. The fruit of a watermelon is called a berry, although it is a juicy pumpkin. The birthplace of watermelons is Africa. They were brought to Russia by the Tatars. This crop began to be grown in the lower Volga, and then in other areas (Krasnodar Territory, Volga region). Now breeders have also developed varieties for the Moscow region.

Man learned to care for grapevines back in ancient times.Perhaps it was by growing grapes that people began to lead a sedentary lifestyle.

The common blueberry is a low-growing shrub of the Heather family, no more than 60 cm high with branched stems and leathery, round-ovate leaves.

The closest relative of the blueberry is the blueberry - a low-growing, highly branched shrub of the heather family. Its tasty, fragrant dark blue berries with a bluish coating contain vitamin C (28%), carbohydrates (up to 6.8%), carotene, PP, citric, malic, benzoic, oxalic acids, pectins, tannins, iron and manganese compounds .

Blackberries are quite rare wild plants. In our country, not a very large number of amateur gardeners grow it. Therefore, we can safely say that blackberries are wild berries.

Black currant is probably the most famous and beloved berry, with which childhood memories of delicious grandmother’s jam are associated, which was rightfully considered a panacea for almost all diseases.

Garden or common red currant (porichka) is a shrub of the Gooseberry family, native to Western Europe.This is a low plant with gray-green, sometimes yellowish shoots. The leaves are shaped like lobes with jagged edges.

Common gooseberry (European) is a shrub plant reaching a height of one meter; the stems of the plant are covered with sharp needle-like thorns all year round; in the summer season, sweet and sour oval berries of green, yellow or purple color ripen on the gooseberry.

Raspberry berry is a deciduous subshrub consisting of a perennial rhizome, from which biennial stems grow up to 1.5 meters high. Central Europe is considered the birthplace of raspberries.

The big red strawberry is the queen of berries, the aromatic fruits of which have truly universal properties.

For many, wild strawberries and strawberries are the same berry, but in fact, they are not. Strawberry is a herbaceous perennial plant with creeping roots. This tasty and healthy berry loves to grow both in forests and in gardens.