Berry-picking rake
Aberry-picking rakeorberry pickeris a tool for collecting berries. Berry-picking rakes can be used to collectlingonberries,bilberries,currants,and other berries. The rake may damage softer berries, and introduces some detritus, requiring cleaning of the berries afterwards. If misused, it may also damage or uproot the plants, reducing next year's yields.[1][2]Despite these drawbacks, a rake has much greater efficiency than picking by hand and is thus used in all commercial berry picking - though modern large-scale farms use mechanical harvesters.
One model of a berry picking rake was patented by J.O. Wennborg ofHabo,Sweden.[3]
References
[edit]- ^Manninen, Outi H.; Peltola, Rainer (2013)."Effects of picking methods on the berry production of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), lingonberry (V. vitis-idaea) and crowberry (Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum) in Northern Finland".Silva Fennica.47(3): 972.doi:10.14214/sf.972.
- ^Bellinger, Brookelyn (16 January 2013)."Berry rakes, in the wrong hands, can be destructive".Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.Retrieved26 August2014.
- ^"Bärplockare kan bli konstverk i Kärnekulla – medborgarförslag vill se krösarepa i nya bostadsområdet".Jönköpings-Posten(in Swedish). 22 October 2020.