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- The mushroom season - which mushrooms you can find at what times
- Collect edible mushrooms also in spring
- Mushrooms of the summer
- Typical mushrooms in autumn
- Collect mushrooms properly
- Tips & Tricks
The mushroom season - which mushrooms you can find at what times
In general, the summer and autumn are known as the main Pilsen season in Central Europe. However, there are also in the spring of various types of mushrooms, which can enrich the diet. Champignons can sometimes be cultivated year-round in the well-insulated cellar.
Collect edible mushrooms also in spring
The spring also offers some types of edible mushrooms in some forest areas, which, however, usually can not keep up with their summer successors in terms of taste:
According to these mushroom species, which occur in March and April, many types of mushrooms can often be found in the forest starting in May.
Mushrooms of the summer
In summer, especially after rainy seasons of a few days, there are often mushrooms in forests and on roadsides. Among them you can sometimes find quite large specimens of the following species:
Parasols and porcini mushrooms, like vegetables, are also suitable as healthy meat substitutes; they can even be breaded and fried like a schnitzel. Throughout the summer, the chanterelles attract the gold of the forest with their fine taste.
Typical mushrooms in autumn
In many places, with enough warmth, autumn keeps many specimens of mushrooms, mushrooms and chanterelles ready. Chestnuts and bovists are next to the Hallimasch mushroom varieties, which are typically found from August and September. While there is often a plethora of mushrooms in the forest in the fall, you should not be cocky despite all the collector's luck. Take only those mushrooms in the basket home that they can safely determine as edible.
Collect mushrooms properly
Since fungi tend to absorb more pollutants such as heavy metals, they should not be collected next to busy roads and industrial facilities. In addition, you should always leave some specimens at each place, so that the mushrooms can continue to reproduce naturally there. Carefully turn the mushrooms out of the ground or cut them off with a sharp knife, so that in a short time another fruiting body can grow out of the mycelium.
Tips & Tricks
Mushroom pickers have the best chance of eating mushrooms in large numbers, when a warm period is followed by a rainy season. At this time, the fruiting bodies often literally shoot out of the mycelium in the soil.