To collect full baskets of mushrooms, you have to comb hectares of forest. This makes your legs and back tired and wastes a lot of time. In fact, mycologists have long identified the places where mushrooms grow at every step. Knowing these secrets, you can immediately find large accumulations of mushrooms without wasting energy and time on empty passages.
How to move when there is a homogeneous scattering of mushrooms
To collect the maximum number of mushrooms and get less tired, you need to move like a snake. Having chosen a section of the forest you like, you should walk along it in one direction for about 100 m, then go back 10 m to the side. With such movement, the likelihood of finding a cluster of mushrooms increases significantly. In addition, there will be no need to go deep into the thicket, so it will not be difficult to return to the car with full heavy panniers. If the forest terrain is complex, you can narrow the distance between passages from 10 m to 5-7 m.
Where are the most mushrooms?
In a homogeneous old forest, isolated mushrooms are found.If you collect them one by one, you will have to walk all day. Therefore, you need to look for places where the concentration of mushrooms is guaranteed to be high. These are the joining lines of different forest formations: edges, clearings, slopes of ravines. We need places that are significantly different from the neighboring environment, since at the junction with them there is maximum biodiversity, which is caused by better lighting, moisture and ventilation.
Eldorado for a mushroom picker, which few people know about, is an abandoned forest pasture. On it you can find porcini mushrooms, chanterelles, milk mushrooms, etc. On abandoned pastures they grow in very large numbers for about 5-10 years, until the soil is covered with trees.
The best mycorrhiza-forming tree species
Neighborhood is important for mushrooms. Under some trees they grow poorly, but under others they grow in unimaginable quantities. It is best to look for valuable mushrooms under pine, birch, fir, and oak trees. There will be most of them there. In many forests they coexist well with aspen. Mushrooms grow especially well under young trees that do not yet provide strong shade.
Knowing about these features of searching for mushrooms, you will always return home empty-handed. When moving in the forest, you need to note and remember good places, and next time you immediately go to them. This will make it possible to fill the baskets even faster, without wasting time combing through unpromising areas.
