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Why add lemon to birch juice
The taste of birch juice is familiar to us all since childhood. Carefully make a hole in the tree trunk, install a guide plate (boys somewhere took very comfortable iron) and substitute a glass jar on the ground. Sometimes the juice drips a drop, and sometimes it pours almost a trickle.
Of course, first you need to find a good place where many birches grow and there are no cars at all. Perfect if it's outside the city. Fresh air and greens are adjusted to the desired mood and time flies imperceptibly. Collection of birch juice involves at least basic training: you need clean jars for juice, gauze, tools and comfortable backpacks.
But how to guess the right time, so that the plants did not suffer and the harvest was worth all this fuss in the fresh air? And what to do with the juice to get the maximum taste and benefit from it? We will tell you about this in today’s article.
When collecting birch juice So, the start of collecting juice always depends on the weather. You can rely on numbers, only this forecast will not be very accurate. We offer you the following guidance:
Of course, first you need to find a good place where many birches grow and there are no cars at all. Perfect if it's outside the city. Fresh air and greens are adjusted to the desired mood and time flies imperceptibly. Collection of birch juice involves at least basic training: you need clean jars for juice, gauze, tools and comfortable backpacks.
But how to guess the right time, so that the plants did not suffer and the harvest was worth all this fuss in the fresh air? And what to do with the juice to get the maximum taste and benefit from it? We will tell you about this in today’s article.
When collecting birch juice So, the start of collecting juice always depends on the weather. You can rely on numbers, only this forecast will not be very accurate. We offer you the following guidance:
- Take a close look at the birch buds. If they're swollen, that's the first sign you can pick up the juice.
- After 20-25, go into the forest and prick the bark of the tree with a sewer. If immediately after that a drop of juice is formed at the puncture site, the tree is ready to collect a healthy drink.
- We repeat: juice can be collected only in environmentally friendly places and only from adult trees. Plants should be strong and healthy enough, because they absorb exhaust gases, smoke and other contaminants that may be nearby.
- Use a modern battery-powered drill to make holes in the tree trunk. So you minimize the damage. The size and depth of the hole should be small.
- The best time to collect birch juice is between 12 and 18 hours.
- Collect no more than a liter of juice from one tree.
- After collecting the juice, help the tree heal itself. Cover the collection place with garden brew or put a wooden plug into the hole.
- The end of the birch juice harvesting season can be determined by the appearance of the trees: they will begin to bloom leaves.
