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- Picking mushrooms - this is how it is done
- Only harvest exactly determinable mushrooms
- Properly equipped to walk in the woods
- Leave mushrooms in the forest
- Tips & Tricks
Picking mushrooms - this is how it is done
In summer and autumn meadows and forests invite you not only to relaxing walks. In many walkers awakens especially in autumn, the hunting instinct, when between mosses and grasses tasty mushrooms wait for their discovery.
Only harvest exactly determinable mushrooms
When harvesting mushrooms, you should take only those specimens that you can clearly identify as non-toxic. A fungal identification book is not always enough, as there are sometimes different types of mushroom varieties. These can often determine local mushroom pickers more clearly than a book or the mushroom collection app on the smartphone.
Properly equipped to walk in the woods
During the collective walk through the autumnal forest, the probability of larger mushroom finds is quite certain. Therefore, mushroom pickers should always be well prepared for any finds. The basic features of a mushroom picker include in particular the following things:
A basket for transporting the often very soft mushrooms is important because they could easily be crushed in a plastic bag or cotton bag. There are different views on whether mushrooms should be turned out of the earth with a light hand rotation or better cut off near the ground.
Leave mushrooms in the forest
Even non-edible mushrooms have their legitimacy in the ecosystem and should therefore not be trampled on for lack of search success. In addition, some poisonous mushrooms can serve as food for various forest dwellers. Madige and fungi eaten by snails are not easy to use like slightly rotten fungi, but in the forest by the production of spores can still ensure an increase of mushrooms in the next season.
Tips & Tricks
Tasty edible mushrooms can also be harvested fresh from their own cellar room or from the window sill all year round with practical growing sets from specialist retailers. Brown and white mushrooms usually grow to a harvestable size within about two to three weeks after the seeded substrate is prepared. However, you should only pick as many of them as you can consume fresh, as the shelf life of mushrooms in the fridge is very limited.