Autumn generously endows the inhabitants of the earth with plant foods: berries, fruits, mushrooms. Many people believe that most mushrooms grow in the summer due to the good weather conditions. But in the fall, you can find more than one species of representatives of the mushroom kingdom. The main thing is to be able to do it correctly.
Instructions
Step 1
When gathering for mushrooms, arm yourself with a small knife, a basket and a long stick with a forked end to the bottom. It is convenient to push apart dry grass, crumbling needles, leaves and broken branches of trees. Buckets, packages, bags, backpacks for picking mushrooms are not suitable: in them the product quickly wrinkles, deteriorates, withers.
Step 2
Collect the mushrooms carefully, cut them with a knife so as not to damage the mycelium itself. Remember that nature should be treated with great care. If outwardly the mushroom seems excessively overflowing with moisture, it should be discarded: this fact can only indicate that the mushroom is damaged and not suitable for food.
Step 3
Collect only those mushrooms that you know well. Learn to distinguish them by their appearance. If you have any doubts about any mushroom, it is better to refuse it.
Step 4
Remember that only mushrooms with an elastic structure and dense pulp are suitable for food.
Step 5
Immediately remove the cut mushroom from soil, dry adhering grass, needles or leaves. If some parts of it are affected by insects or their larvae, remove them. Place the mushrooms caps down in the basket for better preservation.
Step 6
If you find a lamellar mushroom, then cut it off along with the leg: only in this way can you find the fringe on the mushroom leg, characteristic of the pale toadstool.
Step 7
If you find old and wormy mushrooms, string them on tree branches: the mushroom will dry out, and the wind will spread its spores.
Step 8
Avoid picking mushrooms along highways and near industrial sites. Exhaust and industrial gases are very quickly absorbed by fungi, which are very strong adsorbents, and even edible fungi can become very dangerous.
Step 9
If the fall is dry, do not get carried away with too long mushroom picking. Such weather conditions provoke too rapid breakdown of proteins, and the mushrooms become unusable.
Step 10
If a poisonous mushroom accidentally ends up in your basket, throw away all the mushrooms. Insemination with spores occurs instantly, and after such a "neighborhood" all mushrooms can pose a threat to human health and life.
