Mushrooms among other types of mushrooms are considered the most popular. to collect. After all, on one rotten stump or a fallen tree, you can collect several buckets or baskets at once. The main thing is to find this stump and proceed with the monotonous but enjoyable job of cutting them off.
The most important thing for any mushroom picker is knowing the time of the season collecting mushrooms in the forests of Russia and a description of their appearance. Knowing all this information, as well as the timing of the growth of different types of mushrooms, you can feel free to go into the woods for a “quiet hunt”. However, there are some nuances: the growth of honey agarics depends on weather conditions.
Harvest season for forest and meadow honey agarics
It’s worth saying that the season of forest mushrooms begins in the month of May, when spring mushrooms appear. Next are the summer mushrooms and meadow, which grow from June to August. Although these mushrooms are considered edible, they are not as popular as autumn mushrooms. But the season of autumn mushrooms begins its beginning in late August and lasts all September, October, almost to the first numbers November. The best time to collect these fruiting bodies is mushroom pickers called September and the first decade of October.
Honey mushrooms in all respects are the most practical and convenient mushrooms. Them can be found in almost all of Russia, in all forest massifs and forest plantations. In addition, it’s not difficult to search for them, because they grow in large colonies on forest clearings, settling down on rotten stumps or fallen tree trunks. That is why they are pleasant to collect for all mushroom pickers.
The main factor when the season of honey agarics begins is considered summer and autumn rains. If after prolonged rains it is established warm and sunny weather, then literally after 7 days go in the forest for mushrooms. We assure you that you will never return from a “silent hunt” with empty hands. Honey mushrooms are especially appreciated in Russian cuisine: of which You can cook any dish. These fruiting bodies are so universal that undergo all processing and processes cooking. Even with heat treatment, these mushrooms do not lose their nutritional properties.
Experienced mushroom pickers, often visiting deciduous or coniferous forests, know where to look for honey mushrooms. Often these mushrooms settle not only on fallen trees, deforestation and large fallen branches. Sometimes they are found on healthy trees or at the base of the roots. Once you find a family of honey mushrooms on a stump, you can return there several times in a row, as these mushrooms do not like to “jump” from a place in place.
In the second half of October, the average daily temperature air drops a few degrees, small nighttime starts frosts, and the mushroom season is on the decline.
For beginners, fans of mushroom picking want to note that edible mushrooms differ from false ones. Every good mushroom has on the leg is a film similar to a “skirt.” This blanket was protection honey agaric at a young age and remains on the leg, even on mature mushrooms. In addition, the smell of inedible mushrooms is very unpleasant, with notes of rot.
Mushroom pickers, knowing when the mushroom season begins in the forest, also note that after collecting one crop of these fruiting bodies, after 4-6 days you can collect a new one. For growth rate, large colonies, and also for versatility, mushroom pickers love to collect these fruit body.
Honey mushrooms are considered parasitic fungi that infect large the number of different types of trees. These mushrooms have their own a specific strategy: first a dying tree covered with white coating. Experienced mushroom pickers finding this tree, be sure to take note of it, because after a year here a large family of honey mushrooms will appear. Even walking past a stump, do not be lazy, pick the bark and find the mushroom mushroom mushrooms, return to this place through some time and collect the whole basket.
Favorite trees among honey agarics are birch, oak, acacia and hazel. Sometimes in hard-to-reach areas of the forest, especially where the trees fell, you can find plantations of stumps dotted with mushrooms. At one time in such an area, mushroom pickers collect several buckets or large baskets of these fruit bodies.
When does the winter mushroom picking season begin and end in the forest
However, at the end of October, autumn mushrooms end, and begins season of winter mushrooms. Is it really possible to pick mushrooms in the winter? Winter mushroom is the latest species of mushrooms that are harvested in the winter the forest. These mushrooms are very bright, with an orange or red hat. Season winter mushroom picking starts from the end of November and lasts until March month inclusive. This species of honey mushrooms, even in the most severe frosts, does not spoils, but simply slows down its growth. As soon as they begin thaws, mushrooms begin to grow again. But it’s worth noting that winter mushrooms grow on trees high above the ground. To To get these fruit bodies you will need a long stick with a hook. It is worth saying that winter honey mushrooms never lose their vitamins and nutrients even in severe frosts.
Fans of the “silent hunt” in severe frosts should not go to the forest. The acceptable norm for picking mushrooms in winter is considered to be a temperature from -5 to -10 ° C. When does the season of mushrooms of this species end in Russia? It depends on weather conditions, but many call the last month Winters – February.
Experienced mushroom pickers know that picking mushrooms near industrial enterprises are strictly prohibited. All fruiting bodies have the ability accumulate in your body harmful and dangerous to the human organism chemical elements and salts of heavy metals. therefore consume such mushrooms and jeopardize your health and life – thoughtless risk.
