Autumn Mushrooms. Collection Rules

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

There are many who want to combine a walk in the forest with the search for mushrooms. But not everyone knows the rules and features of the collection. Get to know the intricacies of the "silent hunt"

Mushroom places

The art of finding mushrooms can be learned by following advice and studying the natural features that affect the growth of mycelium. Experience comes gradually with the knowledge of the specifics of the soil, vegetation cover and terrain. It is important to take into account the combinations of trees, the presence of moss, grass, needles, access to the sun. Favorable places in the lowland, at the edge of the forest. It is necessary to "hunt" in a birch-spruce, pine forest with a nutrient medium for mycelium - this is a litter of old foliage and humus. Where the grass is tall, there is no sunlight, there are no ravines, hills, a dense old spruce forest - this is not a place for a mushroom picker, it is useless to look here.

Each search is built differently. Some look under the overhanging spruce branches, bypass freestanding birch trees along the edge of the forest. Someone is looking at the edges and meadows, examining the grass. In any case, attention and slowness are required.

The signs are a light forest, a clearing, although each mushroom has certain places to grow. For example, in old pine forests you will find a lot of green plants. In a birch forest, mixed with young Christmas trees, boletus and brown boletus like to grow. In the hazel with aspen you will find an abundance of pigs, black mushrooms. Many species prefer dense soil with low grass. For boletus they go to pine and spruce forests, where there is a lot of moss. Places covered with morning fog, lowlands - signs of mushrooms, boletus, chanterelles. Mushroom spots are often identified by their mushroom smell.

Autumn mushrooms

Abundant rains, lack of heat, high humidity, night coolness are characteristic features of autumn and favorable conditions for mushrooms.

Mushrooms in September

In September, the active season of mushroom pickers begins - this is the height of the collection and delicacy preparations. At this time, summer myceliums continue to bear fruit and autumn species appear: ryadovki (smoky, purple, poplar), honey mushrooms, talkers, mushrooms, pigs, greenfinches, blackies. There is an intensive growth of boletus, moss, boletus, raincoats. There are many russula, umbrella mushrooms, poddubovik (Polish mushroom).

Mushrooms in October

The exuberant palette of the October forest adds mystery and creates a fabulous feeling. The ground is covered with multi-colored foliage in the form of a dense blanket, under which mushrooms hide. During this time, the number of growing varieties is reduced. Myceliums of honey fungus, butter oil, black mushrooms, goats, talkers, russula, ryadovok, greenfinches continue to bear fruit.

Cold creeping fogs are unfavorable for mushroom flies, they disappear, which allows the mushrooms to remain intact until mature age. The October harvest is good for processing and drying: heating is already working in houses, and pickles are well preserved on terraces and balconies until stable frosts.

Mushrooms in November

Gray ryadovki, autumn oyster mushrooms, greenfinches, chernushki are harvested before the onset of frost. On stumps and fallen trunks covered with frost, winter mushrooms continue to grow together, these colonies have a reddish color. After the onset of constant night frosts, the mushroom season ends.

Rules for mushroom pickers

1. Novice mushroom pickers need to study the table of edible mushrooms and it is advisable to make the first trips to the forest with experienced friends.

2. Never pick suspicious or unknown mushrooms.

3. Do not take overripe, moldy fungi and with signs of decay.

4. For easier searching, it is recommended to walk with a small stick (90-100 cm) and maintain a slow pace.

5. The container must be correct: basket, wicker basket. Mushrooms need to breathe, so bags, buckets are not the best option.

6. Clothes are selected closed and inaccessible to insects and ticks. Shoes - comfortable for long walking (sneakers, boots).

7. Mushrooms with tubular caps are folded upside down. In large specimens, it is better to immediately cut off the head and put it separately.

8. To facilitate home recycling, it is best to clean the dirt right away and not put it with the ground.

9. During the collection, be sure to follow your movement with a compass or navigate by the sun, cardinal points. Otherwise, you can get lost in an unfamiliar forest.

When to go mushroom picking

It is impossible to name the exact time, since the sun rises differently in summer and autumn. You need to enter the forest while the morning sun glides over the grass at an acute angle. The long shadow makes it easier to spot the mushroom.

In dry weather, mushroom hunting is useless. They begin to appear after rains, with good soil moisture, warm fogs. In the middle lane, the mushroom season begins early: morels and lines are already growing in early May. The largest collections of all types take place in August - September.