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Picking mushrooms in the forest is not only about finding fruit bodies for further culinary use. It is also rest, entertainment, a way to spend a few hours in silence to enjoy the beauty of nature, to dream, to think about something sublime. Or, on the contrary, you can pick mushrooms as some amateurs advise - in a cheerful company, with songs and anecdotes.

Russian residents have always shown a love of nature. Harvesting mushrooms, or "mushroom", years are celebrated not every season - it all depends on the vagaries of the weather. Everyone should always follow the simple rules of mushroom picking, which will protect you from poisoning and will give you maximum pleasure from the "quiet hunt".

You will learn how to pick mushrooms in the forest by reading the material on this page.

How to pick mushrooms in the forest

A brief reminder of the rules for picking mushrooms is as follows:

• In any case, resolutely throw away unfamiliar mushrooms, even if you are at least a little in doubt, remember that even one dubious fungus can cost you your life.
• For the first time or with little experience, go to the forest with experienced mushroom pickers who are familiar to you personally, use the reference books.
• Observing the basic rules, mushroom picking should be carried out in ecologically clean places, far from cities and large industrial enterprises, at a distance of at least 500 meters from highways.
• Avoid old mushrooms and specimens with even slight signs of mold.
• Mushrooms should be harvested, preserved and stored according to the recipes of experienced specialists.
• Never buy mushrooms off hand from unknown sellers and in the absence of a formalized store.

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Walk into the forest in tight, closed clothes, always with a hat, use mosquito and tick repellent, shake out your clothes after a forest walk, contact a doctor immediately if ticks are found on your body (in some areas ticks are not encephalitic and at the first signs of poisoning fruit bodies.

This video explains in detail how to properly harvest mushrooms in the forest:

Correct equipment of the mushroom picker

It is not enough to know how to pick mushrooms correctly. Going into the forest, mushroom pickers need to have the right equipment. Otherwise, hiking in the forest can lead to health problems.

According to the rules for picking mushrooms in the forest, the mandatory set must contain:

• waterproof suit for rainy weather;
• tight jeans and a wind jacket that are not bitten by mosquitoes and even wasps, for dry and sunny weather;
• boots in rainy and humid weather, as well as early in the morning, when the grass is wet with dew;
• comfortable and durable sports shoes like sneakers for dry weather;
• a hand or pocket compass, but do not forget to determine the opposite direction when entering the forest;
• mosquito repellent;
• a sharp knife for mushrooms, preferably a folding one;
• a basket is required, do not take plastic bags: in them mushrooms crumple and deteriorate ahead of time;
• if you collect different types of mushrooms, among which there are raincoats and hedgehogs, which have spines falling off and stick to all other mushrooms, or moss that can stain all other species, as well as tender young dung beetles, then you should make one or two in a basket partitions or take an additional small basket;
• a headdress or handkerchief is necessary in the forest.

Many mushroom pickers are looking forward to the start of the fall season. It is no coincidence that autumn is sung by many poets, how can you be calm about the beautiful golden foliage and the unique beauty of the autumn forest! There are a lot of mushrooms in autumn. However, mushrooms can be picked at any time of the year.You just need to know where and when to look for them. And, of course, do not forget about the basic rules for picking edible mushrooms.

Good mushroom pickers in the fall prepare substantial stocks of pickled, salted, frozen, dried mushrooms, which they have enough for until next season.

Search for mushroom spots

The climate significantly affects the time of fruiting and the amount of harvest. For example, in the very rainy summer of 2008 in central Russia, a massive harvest of autumn mushrooms was observed a month earlier than usual - from 15 to 25 August. The weather anomaly also affected the harvest: the peak was powerful, but short-lived, in 10 days all the mushrooms disappeared. The anomaly was also reflected in the fact that in the unprecedentedly early harvest of autumn honey agarics there were small brown bugs in each mushroom. In addition, in 2008 there was a peak of the winter honey agaric harvest. Many of the most beautiful pearl-red and brownish-yellow shiny mushrooms were on spruces, and in 2009 and 2010 - yellow-brown ones in parks. In 2011, there were few honey agarics, but in humid places there were a lot of boletus and Polish mushrooms. In 2012, there were a few honey mushrooms, russula and few chanterelles, but nature is never "empty", this year there were many beloved porcini mushrooms.

If we consider different families of edible mushrooms, then we can confidently say that there are good mushroom places where valuable species of mushrooms grow at different times or even in different years.

If you have identified three or four such mushroom spots, then you can be sure that they will not let you down and will continue to delight you with new types of mushrooms, depending on the climate and season.

Thus, it becomes clear the well-known phrase that it is necessary, first of all, to search for mushroom places, then the mushrooms themselves will be found.

In some cases, one careful glance is enough to identify good mushroom spots. So, a pine forest is visible from afar, usually on the banks of rivers and reservoirs, there are often boletus, champignons, porcini mushrooms, mushrooms, spring mushrooms. But the "heel" places (where autumn and summer mushrooms grow) are most often located in windbreaks, where there is an abundance of fallen trees and hemp. In addition, there are many of them near summer cottages and villages, where there are many cut down and broken trees and stumps.

Here you can see a selection of photos about picking mushrooms in the forest ":

Spread of fungal spores

By learning how to pick mushrooms correctly, you can bring joy to those around you by spreading spores near homes. It doesn't take much effort to do this. You need to know that your favorite white, boletus, boletus, mushrooms, milk mushrooms and other mushrooms grow successfully only in symbiosis with the roots of certain plants and trees. These can be spruce, birch, mountain ash, pine, alder, ferns, mosses, and so on.

If in your gardening partnership or in the village there is an alley of birches, spruces, pines, then you can safely pour mixed water with old mushrooms near the roots. Old porcini mushrooms, boletus mushrooms, aspen mushrooms are often thrown away. Take a pad from them, or the tubular part lower from the cap. It contains a lot of controversy. Stir it in warm water, so the planting solution is ready for you. Next, pour this solution under trees, birches, rowan trees and other trees. As a result, only the lazy ones do not pick boletus, boletus and other valuable mushrooms in the alley next to the houses.