It's time to go to the forest at the height of the mushroom season to collect edible and conditionally edible mushrooms growing in the Ulyanovsk region in 2022. On most forums dedicated to harvesting, you can already see real reviews from local residents with photos of the achievements of the harvest. According to reports, it can be concluded that in coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests, active germination of mycelium has begun. And if our readers still doubt whether it’s worth spending their free time on a usefully spent walk through the forest, most mushroom pickers have already managed to feast on mushroom gifts, having collected full baskets of honey mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, mushrooms and boletus, not only for food, but also for preservation for the winter . And if you still have some free time, we suggest you join a quiet hunt, competing with experts, having learned in advance about mushroom places and mushrooms of the Ulyanovsk region.
Useful tips and tricks
Before you go into the forest for protein foods rich in vitamins and minerals, you should familiarize yourself with the recommendations and tips that have helped beginners for many years. Those who have only recently decided to devote their free time to a new hobby should know five features of good hunting:
- No. 1 - mushroom places
There is no point in driving unknowingly into an unfamiliar green zone. It is useless to count on luck in searching for mushrooms not only in the Ulyanovsk region in 2022, but also in other regions. It is more correct to find out in advance the fertile zones noted in many local newspapers, forums, and social networks. Hints will allow you to determine the right direction and time of collection, because each family germinates in a certain period. For example, boletus can be collected in May and autumn, from about the end of September until the first frost.
- No. 2 - day of the week
It is best to go looking for mushrooms on weekdays, when most people are at work or busy with household chores. Reduced competition will allow you to collect full baskets early in the morning, starting processing and cooking already at lunchtime.
- No. 3 - weather
You should not count on a good harvest during the dry season. Everyone knows that mycelium bears fruit after rain. Therefore, having chosen mushrooms that germinate at the right time of year, you should go looking for them a few days after it has rained.
- No. 4 - varieties of mushrooms
Today, in the Ulyanovsk region, many mushrooms sprout, divided into edible and conditionally edible, inedible and poisonous. Beginners who decide to go collecting for the first time should study the distinctive features of the mushrooms they are interested in, and, if possible, seek help from friends who have been going on a quiet hunt for several years.
- No. 5 - edibility categories
Mushrooms are divided into four edibility categories. The first two are the most common and valuable, containing more vitamins, minerals, macro- and microelements in their pulp. They are useful to use during dieting and vegetarianism. The product is high in protein and can replace meat and other animal products. The list of the best includes: boletus and obabka, Polish mushrooms, priests, or as they are called in the scientific world - umbrellas, champignons, saffron milk caps and oyster mushrooms, sprouting on logs and old trees. The third category is edible mushrooms that require initial boiling and cleaning. We are talking about snotty boletus, which needs to remove the oily film, Assumption, meadow and autumn honey mushrooms, milk mushrooms and chanterelles, and trumpet mushrooms. The last place is occupied by conditionally edible species, which are the last thing people pay attention to when noble mushrooms cannot be found in the forest. Russulas, lines and morels, greenfinches, rows, hygrophores, only a small part of what can be included in the list. All mushrooms require preliminary cleaning, soaking and double boiling, draining the water after each boiling.
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Rainy September pleased us with a mushroom harvest. Lovers of forest gifts know that there are almost no places in the forest where there are no mushrooms. Experts say that sometimes the mushroom spots become so overgrown that there is nowhere to put your foot. Another thing is that you need to know these places, and you need to patiently look for the mushrooms themselves. Without straightening your back. Usually mushroom pickers do not reveal their secrets. But based on individual stories (and our own experience), we were able to create a rough map of productive places in late September and early October.
Places During this season, mushrooms in the Ulyanovsk region are found in almost every forest. But there are places where they are either empty or dense. Naturally, large forest areas are richest in mushrooms; while berries are found in sparse mixed forests, open spaces, meadow areas of river valleys and gullies, and slopes of ravines. You can collect them in the nearest suburbs, but it is better, of course, to go to more remote and less frequently visited places. Let us briefly consider the areas of the region richest in forest gifts within one and a half to two hour transport accessibility, i.e. within a radius of 100 - 150 km from Ulyanovsk.
Trans-Volga region. In good years, both mushrooms and berries are collected here in suburban parks, along the forested slopes of the Volga bank, in forests near the villages of Arkhangelskoye and Krasny Yar, and along the shore of the Yurmansky Bay. But the most widely known as mushroom and berry places in the region are the Old Main and Krasnorechensky forests, located along the valley of the Maina River and the shores of the Main Bay. There is another advantage of these forests. In elevated areas, in pine forests and along old clearings, representatives of our northern taiga are found - blueberries and lingonberries. To get milk mushrooms, milkweeds and trumpets, they go to the Lobovskaya clearing, which is on the road to Matveevka, a turn after the Utka River. On weekends, visitors come to the clearing behind Krasnaya Rechka and “rakes” mushrooms. But on Thursday - that's it. And there are few people, and a sea of mushrooms. In the pine forest near the village of Komsomolka there are white mushrooms, milk mushrooms, white mushrooms, honey mushrooms, but it is difficult to get there by foreign car. The glades of the Cherdaklinsky district, especially near the villages of Andreevka and Tatarsky Kalmayur and along the entire length of the Kalmayurka River, are simply strewn with meadow honey mushrooms. In the birch roadside strip of the entire Cherdaklinsky district, in an hour and a half you can pick up a bucket of boletus and pigweed, under the larches - butter. The Beloyarsk and Sukhodolsk forests will delight fans of the mushroom forest with an excellent assortment of mushrooms, including abalones, garlic cloves (they add a very piquant taste to fried mushrooms), mushroom caps and puffballs. But the main thing is porcini mushrooms, chanterelles and saffron milk caps! Lovers of the unusual should visit the Melekes forests, especially the aspen forests near Dimitrovgrad. There, it is true, fly agaric mushrooms are increasingly predominant, but those rare specimens of boletus, boletus and porcini mushrooms that you come across do not fit in a frying pan - these are the sizes they have grown. In general, the forests near Nikolskoye, behind Mullovka and near Brigadirka are rich in hemp mushrooms, milk mushrooms, chanterelles, and white ones are also found. Cautious lovers of “silent hunting” do not go picking mushrooms outside the RIAR, they are afraid of radiation. Although experts say that the boletus, milk mushrooms and white mushrooms found there are not harmful.
In the right bank part of the region, the largest mushroom and berry places are in the south and west of Ulyanovsk.
In the southern direction, forest areas are famous in the area of the villages of Artyushkino, Kuchura, Molvino, Bely Klyuch, the working village of Silikatny, and the Krasny Gulyai station. These places are also good because you can get here at any time, in any weather. And immediately you will find yourself in nice and clean forests, where there are always a lot of mushrooms and berries. To the west, parallel to the railway, the Ulyanovsk-Syzran highway runs. The most mushroom places are on the eastern side of the highway, especially in the area of the settlements of Ponicy Klyuch (there are a lot of milk mushrooms growing in deciduous and pine plantings, and there are a lot of honey mushrooms in dead wood and clearings), Soldatskaya Tashly, Skugareevka, Stogovka, and even better - drive to Yasashnaya Tashly and further to Terenga. In the Terengul region, the Fedka forests, Svetloe Ozero, Sosnovka, and Gladchikha forests are rich in mushrooms. For honey mushrooms they go to Dubrovka and to the clearings behind Tumkin. Those who want to go picking berries can go to the Tsemzavod, or Shilovka. Here, on the slopes of the Volga bank, along the Shilovka River valley and ravines, there are a lot of strawberries and wild strawberries.
In the western direction, the most famous forest areas are in the Tagai - Maina region - white boletus, boletus, boletus, chanterelle and aspen grow. Further down the forest near Vyazovka, Repyevka and in the Aksakovsky forest and not reaching Karsun, the Karsun forests were rich in boletus and milk mushrooms. Well, traditionally the places near Sosnovka on the road to Glotovka are considered mushroom places. These are the most mushroom forests in the region. And also Maina - Chufarovo - Veshkaima (milk mushrooms are collected in Beketovka, Landikha, Krasnoborsky forest, in the forest behind Khovrino, in the area of Krotovka and Stemassa. The forests behind Ozerki are rich in honey mushrooms. Boletus mushrooms, white mushrooms, boletus mushrooms, saffron milk caps - it is better to collect behind Krasny Bor). Among other places, it is worth noting the forest areas near Akshuat, Barysh (mixed forests grow here and wherever you go there are mushrooms everywhere, and in the fall any clearing is full of honey mushrooms), Izmailovo and the Sursur forests (Surchan residents prefer to go to shelterbelts - they are generous with boletus mushrooms The Boltevsky forest is famous for milk mushrooms, and Nikitinsky forest is famous for them, as well as for mushrooms, russula and boletus. In the fall, honey mushrooms are collected in the Polyansky forest.) Russula is surprisingly rare in all the forests. But almost everywhere there are champignons.
Safety Beginners need to know how to protect themselves from possible troubles when poisoned by forest products. First of all, learn how edible mushrooms differ from poisonous ones. In addition, picking mushrooms is dangerous near industrial facilities, along roads and railways. Mushrooms with an “appetite” absorb cadmium, copper, mercury, lead and other heavy elements from the soil. And if you have even the slightest doubt about the quality of the mushroom, throw it away. Do not collect flabby, overripe, spoiled or wormy ones. By the way, symptoms of mushroom poisoning appear within a period of six hours to two days. This is uncontrollable vomiting, pain in the gastrointestinal tract, frequent diarrhea. Before doctors arrive, drink five glasses of salted water to flush your stomach and induce vomiting. Harvesting Collected mushrooms are not stored for more than a day. A simple way to prepare mushrooms is drying. The most delicious dried ones are white ones, but boletus, aspen and even boletus are suitable. Scrape fresh and strong mushrooms from pine needles, leaves, and sand. Separate the caps from the legs and cut them. Dry in moderately heated ovens, in the sun, over a hot stove or in an oven. A dried mushroom is not fragile or brittle, but bends with difficulty. Overdried - hard and fragile. Dried mushrooms become moldy during storage. Pickling mushrooms is more troublesome than drying them. All kinds are good, but milk mushrooms and saffron milk caps are better. Salted cold (without boiling) method. Suitable for cold pickling are milk mushrooms, saffron milk caps, volushki, russula, white capsicum and nigella. Keep them (except for saffron milk caps) in cold water for two days, changing it 3-4 times. Pour and place in enamel dishes in layers of 4-5 cm, placing each row with a small amount of blackcurrant leaf and sprinkling with salt (50 g per 1 kg of mushrooms and 40 g for saffron milk caps). To taste - bay leaf, allspice, garlic. Cover the mushrooms with a wooden circle and place a small weight. Once they have settled, add more to refill the bowl. You can eat no earlier than after 45 days. When salting using the hot method, boil the mushrooms in boiling salted water (2 tablespoons per liter of water), let the water drain and salt when it has cooled, as with the cold method. Milk mushrooms and russula are boiled for 2-3 minutes, white mushrooms, boletus, boletus and boletus - 6 minutes, chanterelles and pig mushrooms - 25 minutes. Volnushki and whitefish are scalded with boiling water, after half an hour the bitterness in them disappears. With hot salting, the mushrooms will be ready faster: russula in three days, and the rest in a month after salting. If mold appears, remove it, wipe the walls of the dish, rinse the circle and the bend and scald with boiling water. Young and strong porcini mushrooms, boletus, boletus, boletus, honey mushrooms and chanterelles are marinated. The caps are used, but you can also marinate the stems of porcini mushrooms, cutting them into pieces 1-2 cm thick. Boil the washed mushrooms in an enamel pan in a weak solution of vinegar with the addition of salt. Cook each type of mushroom separately - their cooking time varies. Place the finished brew in a colander. Transfer the cooled ones into glass jars and fill with marinade. The acidified and salted water in which the mushrooms were boiled can be used a couple of times for the same purposes. Preparing the marinade is not difficult: add salt, sugar, spices to boiling water and boil. For a liter of water, take three teaspoons of vinegar essence (80 percent) or a glass of 6 percent vinegar, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 4 teaspoons of salt, three bay leaves, 6 allspice peas, 3 cloves and a little cinnamon. Cool and pour over the mushrooms. The marinade should cover them.
Mushroom picking by season
Finding mushrooms in the Ulyanovsk region in 2022 is not difficult if the collection occurs at a certain time of the year. Each variety of conditionally and edible mushrooms germinates depending on the month and weather. The best fruiting begins at moderate temperatures after heavy rains. The very first to appear are strings and morels, followed by the May row, spring boletus and mushrooms, champignons and oyster mushrooms.
And if many mushroom pickers are afraid to collect stitches because of the carcinogen content, which does not dissolve even after heat treatment. Morels in Russia are used as food after heat treatment. Many gourmets even consider the fruits to be gourmet dishes served in famous restaurants.
From summer to mid-autumn (beginning of frost), you can collect useful mushrooms belonging to the first three types of edibility. We are talking about boletus and boletus, boletus, milk mushrooms, boletus and honey mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and champignons.
Depending on the mushrooms chosen, you can find the ones you like in coniferous or deciduous forests. An alternative would be a mixed terrain, including both pine trees and birch and oak trees.
Inedible and poisonous mushrooms
Not all mushrooms in the Ulyanovsk region can be classified as edible. Quite common situations are when mushroom pickers, going into the forest, encounter poisonous fly agaric and toadstool on their way. Less often, beginners confuse false mushrooms with edible mushrooms. We are talking about false champignons, honey mushrooms and chanterelles. Porcini and Polish mushrooms are less often confused with gall mushroom and satanic mushroom.
To prevent poisoning of the body and intoxication, leading to death, you must first find out the description of each mushroom and its distinctive features with its false counterparts.
If you suddenly encounter unknown mushrooms in a forest clearing that raise doubts, you should pass by without sparing the abandoned prey. Caution will have a positive effect on the health of family and friends. And later, you won’t have to regret that you didn’t listen to your inner voice and chose to leave the basket empty.
You should especially carefully study the most dangerous mushrooms included in the following list:
- red fly agaric;
- death cap;
- panther fly agaric;
- foliotina wrinkled;
- red champignon;
- thin pig.
Important!
If a toadstool or any other poisonous mushroom accidentally gets into the basket, you should not risk throwing out the inedible fruit and leaving the rest of the harvest. You should throw away the entire basket to protect your health and loved ones from poisoning. Contact with edible species can make tasty and valuable mushrooms dangerous for consumption.
Without knowledge of the distinctive characteristics of russula, you should not collect them for consumption. It happens that after heavy rains, the spotting is washed off from red fly agarics and they become similar to conditionally edible mushrooms. Caution is the key to health!
How not to get lost in the forest
It is better not to go mushroom picking in the evening. Time flies by unnoticed during this activity, and it is very easy to get lost in the dark. Be sure to take with you a first aid kit, a supply of water and food, as well as a mobile phone in order to contact the rescue service if something happens. It is better to also bring a map of the area and a compass.
And if you still get lost, the main thing is not to panic and try to find at least some landmark - a path or clearing. Listen to sounds: the noise of a train or a running tractor, a dog barking or the ringing of a bell can help you get out of the forest.
Mushroom places of the Ulyanovsk region, map 2022
Throughout the forest deposits, you can find conditionally and edible mushrooms. But while some places have more of them, others offer certain families and only at certain times of the year. For example, pine forests and coniferous plantings will delight mushroom pickers with hygrophores, spruce honey mushrooms, boletus, saffron milk caps and greenfinches.
- Gathering in Victory Park
The most popular place last year was the territory of Pobedy Park. Entering there from the north, you can go in search of honey mushrooms, boletus and aspen mushrooms. If you go behind the department of the cardiac dispensary and walk through the thicket of the forest in the autumn, on the way you will meet boletuses and cape mushrooms masquerading as fallen leaves. The main thing is not to confuse them with satanic or bilious representatives of the family.
- In the area of the military base
If you come to the forest area behind the military unit, where old trees are being cut down, you can find autumn and summer honey mushrooms. Less commonly, oyster mushrooms are found.
- In the village of Polivno
In rural areas the air is much cleaner and mushrooms grow like weeds. Compared to last year, edible representatives of the mushroom world were born in greater numbers. A mixed plot will allow you to collect both mushrooms sprouting in the conifer and the deciduous zone.
- Forest near Ulampek base
The coniferous territory will allow you to find many lines and morels on spring days. A little later, you can go on a quiet hunt for champignons and saffron milk caps, boletus or saffron milk caps.
- Countryside
In the villages of Krotovka and Arskoye, where coniferous trees and young pine plantations grow, you can find mushrooms with the aroma of pine needles and mushrooms. We are talking about hygrophores, chanterelles and boletus, saffron milk caps and even spruce honey mushrooms.
- Village Dvoriki
An unusual, but homely name for a rural area, suitable for lovers of Assumption mushrooms and champignons. The main thing is not to confuse a tasty product with a yellowing representative of its species. Its pulp is toxic and poisonous to eat.
- Popular places in past years
If we consider the richest mushroom places in the Ulyanovsk region, it is worth paying special attention to four zones:
- Inzensky district;
- Kuzovatovsky district;
- Timiryaz settlement;
- Matyunina village.
Where to go for mushroom pickers
It is worth considering which mushroom places in the Kemerovo region are the most productive, so that you can go there during the quiet hunting season and not go wrong.
Milk mushrooms are popular among locals because they are great for pickling. They are picked up both by rail and by private car to the villages of Osinovka, Mamaevka, Lebedi and Karbelkino, near the village of Glubokoe. You can look for them along the banks of Tersi. To collect these mushrooms, it is best to take a long and strong stick to pry up “suspicious” tubercles from fallen leaves around tree trunks. Honey mushrooms are considered one of the most common. They grow in the forests that are located around the villages of Chuvashka, Berezovka, as well as near the villages of Sarapka, Shevel, Shishino, Lukoshkino, Drachenino.
Recommendations before your trip
- №1
To harvest a fresh and healthy harvest, it is recommended to collect mushrooms only in environmentally friendly places. Areas such as highways, nearby areas, cemeteries, landfills and factories should be avoided.
- №2
It is worth preferring old mushrooms - young ones that have not had time to absorb toxins and carcinogens. This is especially true for strings and morels, honey mushrooms, greenfinches and hygrophores.
- №3
Regardless of the time of year, you should dress in closed clothing that protects you from attacks by insects and snakes. A hat and boots are mandatory items that are used regardless of the weather.
The best clothing option, regardless of gender, would be a set consisting of the following items: a turtleneck with a high neck, jeans, a cap or hat, and rubber boots. For cold weather, you need to wear outerwear over it: a down jacket or a windbreaker.
- №4
You should not collect unknown mushrooms that raise questions. It is better to leave the forest with an empty basket than to harm your health out of ignorance.
Photos of the harvest collected in past years:
Mushroom places will help to collect mushrooms in the Ulyanovsk region in 2022. Visual clues will allow even a beginner who decides to go on a quiet hunt to collect a variety of protein products containing vitamins, minerals, macro- and microelements in their pulp.
