Customer Reviews

Harold Import Company Berry Picker

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I live in Alaska and pick thousands of berries every year for homemade jam. This is the first berry picker I have ever owned but am glad I bought it. It seems to be made of good quality material. I was worried at first because the wire rack bend easily but then they also bend back to place just as easy. It leaves about 80% of the leaves and sticks out. Of course when the bushes are wet then more leaves will get inside. My only problem with this picker is that it is unable to get the stems off the berries but I dont think i will find a picker that can do that. This works great for salmonberries, huckleberries and blueberries!

We just used it for huckleberry picking, but, because of the late cold - there were not as many as normal and they were a lot smaller. When we tried using this picker, the berries would usually smush right back out onto the branch or get smushed with all the leaves and go right back out with that little branch. However, on a few bushes, we were able to see how it could be great if there were more & larger berries.

We picked over 50 pounds of huckleberries last year with this picker! Works great, love it!

My son and I are delighted with ours. We haven't used them yet, as the product was sold out in our area before the end of huckleberry season. My son received his for Christmas, and we are both looking forward to jams and pies at the end of the summer.

This is a great little berry picker, best for berries which will come off the plant but not squish, such as wild blueberries or cranberries. However the Amazon-stated dimensions are way off - instead of being 9"x19.5"x15", which would make this a large and heavy berry rake, the item is actually 9"x5"x3", which makes it perfect for holding in one hand and running up and down bushes/canes or while sitting on the ground. Of course you still have to cull out the leaves from the berries but the picker saves a huge amount of time (and thorns!) over hand picking.