How to look for mushrooms
Tips / / December 19, 2019
In the campaign for mushrooms importantly, of course, is not the result but a process: the warm air, the birds singing and unforgettable scents of summer and autumn forest. But if you never liked to wander through the woods with a basket and leave with nothing, then you are likely to make a mistake during the preparation. To this season not to miss all the most delicious, follow these tips.
learn the route
Choose where you go looking for mushrooms, you need to advance. This is called a preliminary search, when you come to the forest specifically to explore, to see where there may be a fungus. However, to understand whether or not to go back to the clearing in the season may just very well experienced mushroom pickers.
Therefore, the best preliminary search - word of mouth. More to the natural history lessons at school we all remember that we eat fruiting bodies of fungi, and they grow in the mycelium (mycelium), and that the underground network covers several square meters. It is logical that from year to year to collect necessary to go to the same place successful. If you have to take these locations there, ask for advice from those who love to go for mushrooms.
It's a seller's market, grandmothers, neighbors, customers and local forums. Look, someone from friends in the last year flashed in Instagram mushroom. Do not think that if in one place everything is collected, you will get nothing. Mycelium will not run away, and this week the fungus has time to appear, grow up and grow old. Will suffice.
We get up early
Thus, the rains, on the thermometer still good "plus", it's time in the woods. In the campaign for mushrooms to get up too early for several reasons.
First, walk through the woods in the outfitting mushroomer better before heat. Secondly, shiny dew fungi best seen in grass and leaves. Thirdly, on the popular places better to go in the forefront of that for your arrival by fungi are not left alone legs.
Cooking equipment
Shoes should be good. The sole should be thick, so you can not be afraid of sharp knots. Running shoes, with membranes, nets and ventilation, very quickly skip moisture, if there was a recent rain or morning dew still have not had time to dry.
Headdress take with you necessarily, simply because it is an important rule of walk woods. Other clothes is selected in accordance with the weather and the situation. The more you close the body, the less you will meet with insects, sharp branches and other delights of nature.
Bring a knife to cut the mushrooms. They, incidentally, does not necessarily cut it, so as not to damage the mycelium. Just as convenient: you do not accidentally break a leg and not mess up the fungus.
More knife will need to get yourself a stick. Seriously, if you do not walk through the woods to look for mushrooms that is, the stick will need to rake leaves without bending each time to land. If you do not want to workout with slopes, will have to walk like Gandalf, a magic staff.
Water need to take a little more and do not forget about it, constantly monitor the fluid intake, unless you want to pay for a walk headache from dehydration.
And take a basket for picking mushrooms. Why a basket, basket, or other hand-made? In order not to bruise or break the mushrooms, that will happen when you use bags or backpacks. Buckets and plastic containers will close the access of air, and this, too, affect the quality of the collected mushrooms. And if you already have a stick, then there must be a basket: then will be able to make a stunning photo of the assembled.
search engine
Unbelievable but true: look for mushrooms can be an evidence-based methodology. Collected data and structure them in A. AND. Semenov in the days of the USSR. What to do if you just came to the forest?
It depends on what exactly you are visiting the forest. If you are in the trees specially planted by man, it is suitable route scheme "Comb", where you can be guided by a steady series of trunks and not miss a single meter area.
A more sophisticated version called "comb with a projection", but on the ground you will hardly up to the tree reconcile their way, so just take the principle adopted.
Another way to search - a wave or zigzag. We go because if the forest is transparent, that is, little trees.
When viewing a forest edge adjacent to the meadow, use the principle of a stretched spring to inspect the area around each tree.
Begin to comb his zigzag method. Take your time, enjoy nature, do not run in search of the first cap. Slowly, more slowly, in a second step - so you will see a large area and can mushrooms notice.
We found first? Fine. Put any lighthouse (a stick or basket) in the place where they found the fungus, and start moving in a spiral around it.
Choose to be your spiral twist or untwist, and it is better to follow a route in both directions, to increase the chances of a successful search.
If you are not traveling alone (and for mushrooms alone go boring), then combine methods. Until someone examines a tree on the edge, the other person is talking the same course, but in a serpentine pattern, and a little further in the woods.
Treatment
Fresh mushrooms long prolezhat. Tubular (boletus, white and podberozoviki) will hold in the refrigerator for three days, the plate (mushrooms, chanterelles, mushrooms) - a day or two more. Then - for recycling.
But even for these few days you will lose part of the mushroom, if you store them together. If you can not immediately clean up and prepare everything collected, try to fold the mushrooms evenly in a cool, dark place to protect them from mold and insects.