Beginner mushroom pickers are often interested in: “When can I pick mushrooms, is it only in the middle of summer and early autumn? When does the “silent hunt” peak? ” Let's try to answer this question in more detail. It is important to remember that each mushroom has its own time, and you also need to be able to distinguish edible mushrooms from false ones.
The first mushrooms appear in the spring, as soon as the snow melts. These are morels and lines. Where and when to pick mushrooms? The conical hats of these representatives of the kingdom of wildlife raise last year's fallen leaves, giving out their presence in early March, April. Most often they are found in mixed forests, on sandy soil. However, it should be remembered that the morel spring, most common at this time of the year, is considered a conditionally edible fungus. Before use, it requires high-quality heat treatment - before frying it must be boiled for about half an hour. In May, a rotten deer appears on a rotten wood, or a deer mushroom, characterized by excellent taste. At the same time, the first mushrooms appear. In this case, you should be very careful, because this mushroom is very similar to a white fly agaric.
Spring stump appears on the stumps and trunks of trees. When to collect? Honey mushrooms are universal. They grow from May to October. They are distinguished by excellent taste. In addition, the honey agaric may appear not only at the forest edge and glade, but even in gardens and kitchen gardens. The honey agaric also requires care. The fact is that his false brother is considered very poisonous. Edible is distinguished by the presence on the leg of a special cuff-skirt.
The next in the woods appear mosses and first russula. When to pick mushrooms? In late May, early June, if the summer is wet. If the beginning of the season is dry, then mushroom pickers may be disappointed when they return from the forest empty-handed. In June, the first boletus and oily fish also appear. Despite the fact that these mushrooms will last until the fall, at the beginning of summer they are young and not eaten by worms.
In the middle of summer, it is time for noble mushrooms. These are mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, mushrooms. When to pick mushrooms? In July and August, if the summer turned out to be quite wet and rainy. In the dry season, unfortunately, you can stay without a crop. Mushrooms of the summer season are great for preservation for the winter. They are salted, pickled, dried. Collected and harvested in the warm season, they will bring a piece of summer in the winter cold. At the same time of the year a large number of poisonous mushrooms appears. Therefore, you should be especially careful and not take mushrooms that raise your doubts.
What other mushrooms are harvested in July and August? Together with venerable mushrooms, whose taste qualities belong to the first category, less tasty, but no less beloved mushrooms appear, such as chanterelles, boletus, boletus, russula, honey mushrooms and many, many others.
Finally, autumn. This is the time for mushrooms and rows. Russula, saffron milk come across, at the beginning of autumn, during the Indian summer, chanterelles are still found. From October to May, oyster mushrooms are harvested in the forests.
The world of wildlife requires a careful attitude. In response to our love, he reciprocates, delighting with beautiful crops at any time of the year.
