In order to collect a few mushrooms , it is enough to go to a nearby forest. But if you want to properly regale these gifts of nature, pickle and marinate them for future use, you should approach the selection of mushroom places more carefully.
The yield of fungi in our forests depends, first, on the climatic zone and, secondly, on the species of trees growing there. For example, white mushrooms are found mainly in spruce-birch forests, redheads often coexist with coniferous species, and boletus, respectively, should be sought in an aspen grove.
As for the best time for collecting mushrooms, it is, of course, autumn. It is best to go for mushrooms on a weekday in the early morning. It is desirable that the day before it rained, and the weather was warm, but not hot.
And now we suggest you read about the best mushroom places!
Where can you go for mushrooms in Russia?
There are a lot of mushroom places on the vast territory of Russia - from Moscow region to Karelia. Here are some of the most popular ones.
In the Leningrad region, you can go for a day off for mushrooms in Novy Devyatkino, Semrino or Puchholovo, Lake Zerkalnoye or in the forests of the Volkhov district.
Ekaterinburgers collect mushrooms along the Chelyabinsk tract in such areas as Krasnoufimsky, Alapaevsky, Kamensky, Sysertsky, Sukholozhsky.
If you live in the Tver region, then go for white mushrooms best in Konakovo, and for the oil - in with. Copper. In Karelia, many fungi grow in the area of Lake Syamozero and the rivers Syapsy and Malaya Suna.
Residents of Perm better to go for mushrooms in Gaina or Krasnovishersk, where after harvesting mushroom pickers come to local mushroom bazaars.
And, of course, the neighborhood of the capital is also replete with mushrooms. Near Moscow forests in almost all directions from the city offer mushroom pickers their own nature gifts. The best places are forest massifs along the Kiev and Borovskoye highways, near Moscow Minsk highway, the vicinity of the cities of Khimki and Mitino. The farther from the Moscow Ring Road, the more mushrooms can be collected, and the less competition.
Mushroom places of Ukraine
Kievans are accustomed to go to picking mushrooms to the north and north-west of the region, where extensive forests grow. These are the Vyshgorodsky and Makarovsky districts, Tarasovshchina, forests around the villages of Lutezh, Katyuzhanka, Klavdievo, Komarovka. Also, many mushrooms can be collected in other directions: in the west are the suburbs of Fastov and Vasilkov, in the south - Tarashcha and Boguslav, in the east - forests near Boryspil and Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky. And in the metropolitan parks themselves, when the autumn weather is warm, mushrooms also grow, but they are not recommended for eating, because they absorb all the harmful substances from the urban soil and air.
The Carpathian mountain forests are also located to collect mushrooms. Virtually in each forest belt, or rather - in the felling on the border of large forests are located whole mushroom fields, called local "mushroom pickers". "Carpathian mushrooms and old dirt roads and paths" love ".
There are a lot of mushroom places in the forests of the Sumy and Ternopil regions, in the Chernigov region and Kharkiv region.
Where it is better to go for mushrooms in Belarus?
Belarus is also rich in these gifts of nature. For chanterelles, you can safely go to Logoysky and Stolbtsy district, the boletus and podereinoviki gather in the Borisov and Volozhinsky forests. For beloved mushrooms you can go to the vicinity of Minsk, where many mushroom pickers try to get to Belarus. And in the Khatynsky forest grow mushrooms of almost all edible species. In addition to mushroom, there are many berry routes.
And now - we went for mushrooms!