Berry-picking rake

A berry-picking rake, collecting lingonberries
bilberries being collected with a berry-picking rake in the Massif central)

A berry-picking rake or berry picker is a tool for collecting berries. Berry-picking rakes can be used to collect lingonberries, 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.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Bellinger, Brookelyn (16 January 2013). "Berry rakes, in the wrong hands, can be destructive". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
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