softly falling leaves, warm showers are small, soft spring earth under their feet wet.Autumn forest filled with people who are looking carefully at his feet: fans of "quiet hunt" went to a favorite fishing.What is joy, when under the fallen leaves flash slippery wet hat!With what pride pickers bring home a basket full of strong fragrant forest gifts!
avid hunter
Where in St. Petersburg to collect mushrooms?The problem is, of course, entertaining.It would be logical to assume that the gathering should be, where they grow in city parks and small groves, forest plantations.On these islands you can really see the nature of the mushroom, wandering with a basket or bucket.
most often elderly people who, perhaps, difficult to get to distant forests, and just a walk in the park - boring.Another thing is how to deal with later harvest.
Mushrooms in a big city
On the question of where to pick mushrooms in St. Petersburg, so that later they can be eaten, there is only one harsh answer: nowhere.Numerous studies show that the insidious mushrooms and mushrooms love to absorb harmful substances, particularly heavy metals.
What a russula growing in a polluted place, able to pull out of the ground and air as hazardous substances that becomes almost toadstool.St. Petersburg - the largest industrial city, and it automatically converts it to a place where it is impossible to pick mushrooms.
Who on earth all the more harmful?
Each type of mushroom has a tendency to accumulate "favorite" harmful substances.Boletus, for example, like cadmium, zinc or russules prefer copper, mushrooms (which, incidentally, in city parks, and often come across) "warehoused" mercury.It is important to remember that the fungus - it is only a small part of the mycelium, which can take hundreds of square meters as a sponge and soak up everything within reach.That is why the concentration of any muck there can be several times more than in the soil next to it.
The same is true of the radionuclides.From this perspective, the most dangerous boletus, birch and aspen, as their roots are located on the surface.
Besides answering the question "Where in St. Petersburg to collect mushrooms," it would be nice to define and to the question of why to do it.From the perspective of a nutritionist, is the food from the category of "so-so".No particular nutrients in mushrooms is not present, the protein they contain significantly less than legumes (not to mention the meat and fish).For fiber is also useful to eat vegetables - chitin fibers contained in mushrooms, very rough, they not only do not fit everyone, so also prevents the absorption of nutrients.In this regard, it is not recommended to use them either children or the elderly, or people with gastrointestinal problems.But you have to decide whether or not to communicate with the product of little, and even at the risk of poison, confusing relatively harmless mercury mushrooms with pale toadstool.
Mushrooms - evil?
Some fans scare the public assert that collect, and the more there are wild mushrooms - the lot of mentally ill people.Discussion on "where to pick mushrooms in St. Petersburg" is able to bring these impressionable comrades to a heart attack.Different programs on TV and radio call to not have them at all - never, no.Ideological opponents of these alarmist, gather mushrooms in St. Petersburg insist that doing so for life - and nothing, still alive and thrive.The truth, as usual, somewhere in between.
It is obvious that in the city, near major highways, along the dumps and other places to collect mushrooms is not necessary.It is undesirable to go after them in the dry season: the smaller fungi, the higher the concentration of these harmful substances.I do not advise them to collect and under high voltage power lines: they create a powerful magnetic field that can affect even the composition of human blood.It is unlikely that such an effect is useful.
not take in a basket and mushrooms old overgrown.Knowledgeable people say that these findings not only accumulate harmful substances from the environment, but also the products of their own metabolism.This fungus is not enough that not too tasty, so they also can be poisoned.
Away from civilization!
If you use common sense, it is easy to conclude that the cleaner the substrate on which the fungus grows, the less chance with him to swallow a dose of any lead, cadmium or mercury.For the "quiet hunt" should find a place far away, yes cleaner quieter.It is best to gather mushrooms near St. Petersburg, not in it.
is enough to leave the city, choose a suitable grove and examine it for signs of suspicious elements - prematurely withered grass, withered trees, foreign odors, dead animals.If the wood is fresh and green, discordant chirp of birds, insects crawling cheerfully, joyfully butterflies and trees mighty crowns drawn to the gentle autumn sun - this is what you need.
For the majority of citizens campaign for mushrooms - it's still not obtaining food, and, above all, relaxation, communion with nature.You walk in the woods - the air is clean, cool, rustling leaves underfoot, head over to proteins crack ... Beauty!And without gathering might well have been enough - but unfortunately (or fortunately), people do not know how to wander aimlessly through the trees.They need to be respectful about it, and so we must take a basket ready and go not just walk and pick mushrooms.
Where are they free chanterelles?
Hunter for mushrooms in St. Petersburg in abundance.In the season of the surrounding forests are teeming with people with baskets, buckets and plastic bags.The nearest town of mushroom place - New Devyatkino village, which can be reached in 20 minutes (on the metro).In there the forests even come across white.But, unfortunately, the mycelium already there is much less than the mushroom.At every step, comes the unfortunate owner of an empty bucket, squinting enviously at the fungus lonely lying in the midst of a huge basket of successful rival.Find something with this gathering of people is very problematic.
have to work hard if you do not want to go home with an empty basket, will have to go somewhere far away from the city (and its competitors).Around Peter a lot of places where you can pick mushrooms.Lovers of "quiet hunting" in demand village Sosnovo, there can be reached by train.If you do not look for the easy way and in a pine sit still on the bus, you can reach Snegirevka.
In local coniferous forests full of mushrooms, Godyaev pickling: This chanterelles, podgruzdki.In a good year across aspen and white.Famous for an abundance of chanterelle forest near the village of Losevo and white is better to go for the glass (Tosno district).However, to get to Losev, will have to acquire personal transportation: train to go to Tosno, and then get on the bus to the forest - enjoy below average.St. Petersburg travel for mushrooms and Dibuny - in the woods around the station grow mushrooms, aspen, chanterelles and russula.
bummer as interesting
If you are not a fan of feeding mosquitoes, it is your way to the nearest market.No need to wake up before dawn, shaking in the train, spend hours wandering through the woods, God knows where.In St. Petersburg, you can still collect mushrooms and money.This, of course, very prosaic, but what if you want soup, and communion with nature - no.In good years, the market sold a variety of mushrooms.If you have a steady mind and not to suffer the suspicion that they were collected on any radioactive dump - it is possible to get what you want without making super efforts.
for impressionable people who do not want to eat with cooked meals lead and copper, the conclusion is obvious: for mushrooms in St. Petersburg is best to go to the supermarket.The choice there is, of course, not brilliant but the mushrooms, it is unlikely that there will be, but it is safer for the health.Products submitted to the grocery store to be checked on the harmfulness.
After all, where in Peter to collect mushrooms - a personal choice of St Petersburg.The ditch on the market, at the supermarket, outside the city limits - everyone is free to do as he pleases.The only caveat: in the decision making process it is important to still remember that taking care of your health and loved ones - it is not too much.
