In general, summer and autumn are known as the main piling season in Central Europe. However, there are also various types of mushrooms in spring that can be used to enrich the menu. Mushrooms can sometimes be cultivated all year round in a well-insulated cellar.

Also collect edible mushrooms in spring

In some forest areas, spring also offers some types of edible mushrooms, which, however, usually cannot keep up with their summer successors in terms of taste:

  • March snails
  • Spruce cone carrots
  • morel species
  • blistered muglings

After these types of mushrooms, which appear as early as March and April, various types of porcini mushrooms can often be found in the forest from May onwards.

Mushrooms of Summer

In summer, especially after a few days of rain, there are often large numbers of mushrooms in forests and along roadsides. Among them you can sometimes find quite large specimens of the following species:

  • porcini mushrooms
  • mushrooms
  • parasols

Like vegetables, parasols and porcini mushrooms are also suitable as a healthy meat substitute, they can even be breaded and fried like a schnitzel. All summer long, the chanterelles, the gold of the forest, lure you in with their fine taste.

Typical autumn mushrooms

In many places, autumn still has many specimens of porcini, button mushrooms and chanterelles ready when the weather is warm enough. In addition to honey fungus, chestnuts and puffballs are types of mushrooms that are typically found from August and September. While an abundance of mushrooms can often be found in the forest in autumn, you shouldn't get overconfident despite your luck as a collector. Only take home those mushrooms in the basket that you can safely identify as edible.

Collect mushrooms correctly

Since mushrooms tend to absorb more pollutants such as heavy metals, they should not be collected near busy roads and industrial plants. In addition, you should always leave a few specimens in each place so that the fungi can continue to multiply naturally there. Carefully turn the mushrooms out of the ground or cut them off with a sharp knife, so another fruiting body can sometimes grow from the mycelium in a short time.

tips and tricks

Mushroom pickers have the best chance of edible mushrooms in large numbers when a few warm days follow a rainy spell. At this point, the fruiting bodies often shoot out of the mycelium in the soil.

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Vegetable garden