Who does not like to walk through the autumn forest in warm weather! The beauty of the golden autumn raises the mood, allows you to relax and escape from everyday worries. In addition, during this period, you can do your favorite thing for children and adults - picking forest mushrooms. But here you can not do without interesting and useful information about them. From this article you can learn how to collect mushrooms, the rules for their search and the time when the forest harvest is ripe.
Mushroom places
There is a whole science about where and how to pick mushrooms in the forest. Modern technologies even offer people to find the right places using a navigator or an Internet program. But fans of quiet hunting continue to be guided by national signs, relying on their own experience. Unfortunately, even experienced people can not always determine the place of the future rich harvest.
And yet, how and where to pick mushrooms? First of all, recall the school curriculum: some species interact with trees, while others can independently extract the nutrients they need from the soil. So, the first should go into the forest, and the second can be found in open spaces.
White mushrooms
Since ancient times, mushrooms have been considered the most valuable and delicious. Finding them in the forest is a great success. How to collect porcini mushrooms? To begin with, you should know that they appear at the beginning of summer and are found in abundance until mid-September. Mushrooms prefer warm and humid places, they like to be adjacent to birch, spruce or oak. Often a sign of their habitat is the presence on the site of red fly agaric and anthills.
How to pick porcini mushrooms? Remember that mushrooms grow in families. Therefore, do not rush to leave from where you found the first. If you're lucky, then in one place you can collect from five to forty pieces.
Boletus
The chocolates are very tasty and valued almost as highly as the whites. In Russian forests, you can count several species of brown boletus, and they are harvested from the beginning of summer to mid-autumn. Where do these mushrooms grow? How to collect and where to look for boletus? The answer lies in the name itself - the chamomile forms mycorrhiza on the roots of deciduous trees. When collecting, be very careful, as red hats are easily confused with fallen leaves. Under the chambers, the bile fungus, which is also popularly called satanic, likes to be masked. To avoid poisoning, check the color of the hat on the kink. In the boletus, it will be white, and in the bile, it will be pink or blue.
Butterflies
How to collect butter mushrooms and how to cook them? Remember that they grow in large groups. You can find them in open sunny places: clearings, edges and outskirts of roads. Preference should be given to collecting small mushrooms, as they are stronger and can be cooked whole. Many do not like butter because when they are cleaned, their hands get very dirty and the black coating remains for several days.
Ginger
Many people prefer mushrooms and put them in the first place. How to collect mushrooms in the forest and where can they be found in abundance? This bright red family loves rare pine forests and young plantings. It is rare to find a lonely mushroom, it usually grows in a group that stretches in rows in different directions. It is nice to collect mushrooms, and you can cook a lot of dishes and pickles from them.
Mushrooms
Perhaps honey mushrooms can be called the most productive species of mushrooms. People bring them home in whole buckets and complain that they did not have the strength to collect the entire forest harvest. The season of autumn mushrooms begins in late August, and ends closer to winter. How to pick mushrooms and where are they easy to find? The name itself suggests that these babies grow on old stumps and fallen trees. But be very careful! False mushrooms also grow on stumps , they are very easy to confuse with edible ones. The main difference between poisonous relatives is the absence of a ring on the leg and the bright color of the hat.
Nature calendar
How to collect mushrooms, amateurs and professionals will tell a special calendar. Those who own this information can safely go on a quiet hunt and not worry about the time spent.
Spring
Spring does not spoil mushroom pickers with its forest yields, but some manage to find the first morels and raincoats in the forest. Remember that before cooking they must be soaked in water for at least half an hour, and then rinse thoroughly under running water.
Summer
Russula and summer are the first to be born in the June forest
honey mushrooms. By the middle of the month, you can already find a more serious "catch": strong boletus, butter and moss.
Hot weather in July prevents mushrooms from developing. And many believe that this is not the best month to collect such gifts of nature. However, if the month was rainy, then in the forest you can find many mushrooms: boletus, boletus and butter.
In August, nights become longer, hot days are already less, and there are more night fogs and dew in the mornings. During this period, the forest generously presents its guests with gifts. Ginger, autumn mushrooms, mushrooms, boletus, boletus and butterflies grow in huge quantities.
Fall
Indian summer and golden autumn is a great time to harvest the forest. Many mushrooms can still be found during this period, and some of them will last until frost. In addition to the above species, autumn lines and honey agarics, oyster mushrooms, mushrooms, and valuy are found in abundance.
How to pick mushrooms. Rules for Beginners
1. The best time to harvest forest mushrooms is early morning. Firstly, you are more likely to find a pristine clearing with a rich harvest. Secondly, morning mushrooms are denser and fresher, and they are stored much longer than others.
2. For going to the forest you will need the right clothes - for warm days a tracksuit made of knitwear or cotton fabric is suitable. In rainy weather, grab a raincoat soaked in a water-repellent compound. Pay attention to the choice of shoes, it should be lightweight, comfortable and waterproof. In warm weather, you can go to the forest with sports boots, but in wet weather it is better to stock up with rubber boots. You will also need a small backpack in which you can put a supply of food, a thermos, a bottle of water, a knife, matches and a compass.
3. Go on your first trip accompanied by an experienced person. Try to remember how and where to pick mushrooms. Be sure to show your "catch" to a knowledgeable person. Observing these simple rules, you can avoid unpleasant consequences.
4. Where to look for mushrooms? If the summer is rainy, then most often they grow in open places - forest edges or clearings. In a dry season, mushrooms prefer to hide in moss, among a pile of leaves or under the thick branches of trees.
5. In no case do not pull out the mushroom with the root! Such careless handling will certainly violate the mycelium. Think about the fact that if you looked after a fruitful place, you can come here again and again. Take care of its preservation, and you will no longer have to spend a lot of time searching and collecting forest gifts. How to pick mushrooms if there is no knife at hand? Very simple - just unscrew it from the soil.
6. Collect only the species you know - remember the dangers of poisoning! Put the found mushroom immediately in a basket and do not forget to clean it of debris.
7. The harvest should be processed on the same day: wash, clean, freeze or cook.