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Mushroom picking

Delicacies of Mushroom for the Tongue and of Colorful Fall for the Mind

As the first autumn rains arrive, yields of mushroom begin to appear at their best and are there to be picked by a hiker. Picking mushroom is a rewarding and interesting outdoor activity.

When you depart a bit from the marked trail into the wilderness while hiking along autumn Reitti, then you will sure come across at least with some mushrooms. Milk caps and brittle caps are good as salted mushroom, whereas of the boletes and of sheep polypore you can fix some goodies in a pan. Gourmets will be glad to taste the yellow chantarelles, trumpet chanterelles, and the horn of plenty mushroom in different soups and sauces.

How to begin picking mushroom?

In the woods, there await a lot of delicious boletes, chantarelles, milk caps, trumpet chanterelles, and black horns of plenty. However, for a start, you do want to learn to identify the safe and edible mushrooms.

For those who lack experience, the right way of starting mushroom picking is to join autumn hikes organized by mushroom picker societies. Then there will be those more experienced and enthusiastic pickers who can advise you on mushroom species. For those who want to pick mushroom for home food, it is enough to learn to identify a few mushroom species, but if enthusiasm about mushroom picking does grow on, then getting a mushroom guide book will be the next step.

When going picking mushroom, it is worth to put on appropriate outdoor clothes and take a basket or bag for the mushroom, and a mushroom knife in addition, with you. Shopping bags made of linen or paper bags that absorb wetness fit for this use better than do plastic bags or containers. It is the merit of those that the mushroom stay in good shape. Within a big bag or basket you can insert smaller bags and sort the mushrooms already while picking them.