“And my homeland generously beat me, birch juice”
Yes, today we’ll talk about the methods of mining this chic fluid. Now it’s not fashionable to drink it, cola, energy and any other rubbish tightly occupied the shelves of our stores. But you should think that you drink. People do not understand that with their own hands and money they make themselves frail and sick.
So, birch juice is a birch tree juice. Not a mixture of chemistry, which cleans both toilets and your stomach. The juice will give us many trace elements, vitamins. He is rich in iron, potassium, magnesium, copper and calcium. Real health drink. I must say that it is mined only at a certain time of the year, so you should not torment the birch year.
When spring only begins, and nature wakes up from hibernation, it is then that you need to collect juice. In different regions will be different. You can conduct a small check, make a thin puncture with an awl, if the juice performs, you can get it.
Nobody will call you the exact dates, because a lot depends on the weather. The best secretion of juice goes during the day, the birches are falling asleep at night, so it is better to start the collection in the morning.
They stop collecting it when the leaves bloom, around the end of April.
By the thickness of the barrel, you can determine how many holes for the collection will be optimal.
20-25cm-one hole
25-35cm – two holes
35-40cm-three holes
40+ cm – four holes.
Look around and choose a tree that stands on the more sunny side. Juice mining will be better and faster there. As you warm up, you can choose trees and deeper in more often.
The middle birch gives about 2-3 liters of juice per day. Large birch can give 7 liters. It is better to extract juice in places of planned deforestation and not touch young trees so as not to harm the forest. I understand that few people are now preoccupied with ecology, but do not crap where you live. And the little birch will then give you much more juice.
The peculiarity of the birch is that its roots go far into the ground, and it does not gain toxins from the upper layers of the soil. But in Chernobyl, it is still not worth collecting juice, as well as in the direction of factories and production.
The whole essence of prey is reduced to making holes in the tree trunk. It is better to do it from the south, there the juice flows better. Any tube or groove is inserted into the holes and the container for the collection is substituted.
If you make a hole with a knife, it is better to do it from below-up.
Sometimes just cut off the branches and tie the package to them.
Do not try to pump out all the juice from the tree, it can compensate for part of it, but if you take it all from it, then the tree will dry out. It is better to take about a liter per day from a tree and go to another.
After collecting juice, be sure to tighten the hole with something, otherwise bacteria can destroy the tree.
It needs to be stored in the refrigerator, but for a long time it is not stored there, somewhere around 2-3 days in total. But the juice can be preserved, and then it is stored for a long time.
You can also make a delicious kvass from it.
This is just a gift for survivors, nature can give us a lot, but your duty will take care of it.
