Signs about mushrooms. A bumper mushroom harvest means war? Experts commented on folk signs Folk signs on porcini mushrooms

• June 16 - Lukyan the windy. It has been raining all day - for the mushroom harvest.
• Mold on last year's foliage means a harvest of saffron milk caps.
• July 7 – Ivan Kupala. Starry night - there will be a lot of mushrooms; If there is a thunderstorm during the day, then few nuts will be produced and they will be empty.
• If there are a lot of nuts but no mushrooms, the winter will be snowy and harsh.
• If January is cold, then July will be dry and hot; don’t expect mushrooms until autumn.
• January 6 — Christmas Eve. If the stars shine on the road the night before Christmas, then there will be mushrooms and berries.
• The dried boletus mushrooms are crackling in the cage - there is frost in the field.
• There is little snow on the branches - you won’t find any mushrooms or berries.
• If the snow has melted and mold has appeared in this place - to mushrooms. (We are talking not just about the harvest of mushrooms, but about the abundance of mushrooms in this particular marked place. Mold that appears from under the snow indicates mycelium (aka mycelium) - the thinnest branched and intertwined threads that form the vegetative body of mushrooms) .
• The moon is growing - go mushroom picking, the moon is waning - stay at home.
• When it’s hot and damp, mushrooms gather under the trees; when it’s damp and damp, they scatter into the clearings.
• Rain in the evening - expect mushrooms in the morning.
• How many rains - so many milk mushrooms.
• If there are waves in the forest, then expect the milk mushrooms to appear soon.
• The first fog of summer is a sure mushroom sign that there will be a harvest and it’s time to go to the forest to pick mushrooms.
• If there is a steamy fog over the forest, go mushroom hunting.
• The month, having been born, was washed by rains, then there will be no rain. And when the month becomes horned, it will wash itself again - then mushrooms will begin to grow.
• Heavy dew - to fertility, and frequent fogs - to the harvest of mushrooms.
• The pine blossomed and a grainy oil can appeared.
• There are a lot of midges - prepare baskets for mushrooms.
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  If the rye starts to sprout, white ones with boletus mushrooms also begin to appear.
• The fluff has flown from the aspen tree - we need to gather for the aspen boletuses.
• Where there is a red fly agaric, there is a white mushroom sitting nearby.
• If June is hot, then don’t look for boletus mushrooms.
• Where one oiler was born, others fled side by side.
• The rye is ripe - time for the second boletus harvest.
• The oat panicles have ripened - honey mushrooms have grown in the forest.
• September 8 – Natalya-ovsenica. Natalya came, we went into the forest to pick mushrooms.
• Honey mushrooms are gone, that means summer is gone.
• Mushroom mushrooms have appeared - we should expect autumn honey mushrooms soon.
• Camelina grow generously there, where there are spruce, pine, fir and cedar trees.
• In the fall, mushrooms appeared again - don’t expect snow and cold weather soon.
• Late mushroom - late snow.
• September 7 – Titus deciduous The last mushroom is growing. (The beginning of leaf fall is the last date for collecting mushrooms, the so-called deciduous mushrooms).
• Mushrooms are mushrooms, and the threshing is behind the ovens.
• Mushrooms growing on the wall - to wealth. ( It's about, of course, about the external, not the internal wall of the house. In fact, the forgotten meaning is that the mushroom was one of the phallic symbols (it is no coincidence that mushrooms are still divided into “male” and “female”). That is why dream interpreters to this day interpret the mushroom as a groom or as pregnancy, i.e. in any case - “profit”. On the surface there is an explanation in the proverb: “If there is mushrooms, there is bread.” The abundance of mushrooms is associated with the grain harvest. Well, even if mushrooms appeared on the wall of the house, it would definitely be wealth - bread).
• If the night of Christmas is starry, the same New Year and on Epiphany - in the summer there will be a lot of berries and mushrooms.
• If there are a lot of midges, prepare a lot of baskets (i.e. mushroom harvest, mushroom year).
• It is believed that if it's raining and the sun is shining, then after such rain mushrooms will certainly grow. Also, “after a major direct rain, mushrooms begin to grow vigorously.”
• Everywhere there is a sign that white spots of mold (the so-called mycelium) indicate mushroom places. “When the snow melts in the fields and mold forms in the depressions where the snow lay, this is recognized as a sure sign of a large mushroom harvest in the summer.”
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In the Moscow region you can collect up to 10 kilos per day, in the Vladimir region - 100

Scientists have not yet decided whether they are plants or animals. But this doesn’t make people’s love for mushrooms any less. IN this year they pay people for their attention a hundredfold - at the turn of the coming autumn, the Central Russian strip was simply covered with a mushroom invasion.

Some experts are firmly convinced that the “mushroom index” is capable of predicting future events. “Such an abundance of mushrooms means war!” - our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers used to say. And there is evidence of this. For example, old-timers recalled that in the early summer of 1941 in many areas Central Russia Seemingly not at all “on schedule,” chanterelles suddenly began to grow vigorously along the forest edges. The people rejoiced, collected buckets of these free gifts of nature, and a few days later the black military suffering broke out.

It turns out there is another specific “mushroom sign”. At least, this is what one of the amateur local historians, a resident of the Mozhaisk district, Petr Kostromin, claimed, with whom the author of these lines had the opportunity to communicate at one time. Pyotr Erofeevich, who walked many paths along the western Moscow region, noticed a curious pattern: mushrooms grow very willingly where the battles of the Great Patriotic War once took place - in the places of trenches and dugouts that had been covered with earth... According to Kostromin, he was repeatedly successful even thanks to this sign find such “military objects” and, together with invited members of search teams, carry out successful excavations there in order to discover the remains of the dead Soviet soldiers. However, the local historian emphasized that in recent years his sign actually “came to naught.” Perhaps too much time has passed since the battles with the Nazis, and the mushrooms have ceased to “feel” the echoes of those tragic events.

However, biologists, of course, laugh at these signs. After all, it is known that a good mushroom harvest occurs every three to four years and depends, firstly, on last year’s autumn, it should be warm and rainy, and secondly, on August, it should also be pampered with rain.

Make sure that the mushroom season is now in full swing " high season", you can by visiting the capital's markets. There is an abundance of mushrooms on the shelves there. Moreover, almost all representatives of the classic “top ten” mushrooms are available - boletus, boletus, saffron milk caps, boletus, boletus, chanterelle...

Such a surge in goods has little effect on prices. Depending on the size, boletus go for 800-1200 rubles, boletus - 600-800, boletus and chanterelles for 250-300... The geography of market gifts of nature is quite varied: mushrooms, judging by the statements of sellers, were brought from Vladimir, Tverskaya, Yaroslavl even the Tambov region. Mushroom pickers working, say, in the Vladimir region, called a record figure - one hundred kilograms of mushrooms in a few hours. The most amazing thing is that sometimes you don’t even have to go into the forest to get them - they already grow in the fields that begin right behind the village houses.

Of course, compared to the periphery, the capital region is not distinguished by such powerful “deposits” of mushrooms, however, in the Moscow region, if you wish, you can collect a good harvest of the same boletuses or even boletuses. Here mushroom pickers give numbers - 7-10 kilograms for a full “mushroom” day.

Of course, the majority of residents of the capital region, who seriously engage in the “third hunt” (this is what the classic of Russian literature Sergei Aksakov called the process of searching and collecting mushrooms), do not name the places of their treasured forest lands, but we managed to find out where in the Moscow region mushroom pickers have the largest It is likely that a rich harvest awaits.

We should immediately make a reservation: it is better not to try to pick mushrooms closer than two dozen kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. Not to mention the scarcity of local forests, crowded by summer cottages and cottage villages, any “one-legged person in a hat” who dares to grow up here absorbs many harmful substances— waste from the activities of the metropolis.

The best prospects for a good catch are those who go north and east of the capital.

In the Savelovsky direction, forests to the north of Dmitrov are considered mushroom - along the Dubna River, the vicinity of Verbilok, forest thickets along the Rogachevskoe highway; northeast of Iksha. In the Yaroslavl direction, one of the most “mushroom” territories is to the north of Sofrin, Khotkovo; You can also look for productive places in the vicinity of the village. Fryanovo. The Leningrad direction promises success for those mushroom pickers who climb into the forests west of Klin - beyond the town of Vysokovsk, along the northwestern arc of the Great Moscow Automobile Ring.

The eastern regions of the region are also among the most mushroom-producing. Here, among the vast coniferous forests, favorite places of white boletuses, boletus. Here are just some possible “reference points” on the “mushroom picker map”: Shevlyagino, Zapolitsy, village. Misheronsky (Kurovskoe direction); village them. Tsyurupy, Dmitrovtsy (Kazan direction); Voinovo, Semenovo, Kovrigino (Gorky direction).

The southern borders of Moscow land (these are Paveletsk and Kursk directions) are not so rich in forests, but mushroom pickers find the “right” places there: for example, the vicinity of the villages of Kishkino, Panino, Talezh, Novinki...

It remains to mention the western regions. In the Kyiv direction, you can take note of Kamenskoye and Belousovo as landmarks. Along Belorusskoe - Semenkovo, Oblyanishchevo, village. Kolyubakino, Dyadenkovo. In the Riga direction, many people choose Lesodolgorukovo, Pokrovskoye, Novlyanskoye, Chismenu as starting places to go looking for mushrooms...

Fans of mushroom dishes have another way to stock up on the necessary product: use techniques for growing mushrooms in artificial conditions.

People have been mastering such agricultural production for more than one century. The most convenient for growing “in the garden” were champignons and oyster mushrooms. However, enthusiastic craftsmen manage to cultivate even the most popular species - boletus and white boletus. These representatives of the “elite” belong to the so-called mycorrhiza-forming group of fungi, which are characterized by the fact that their mycelium must necessarily grow together with the roots of certain types of trees - birch, pine, spruce... So for successful cultivation You need such “one-legged” creatures so that your site is closely adjacent to the forest, and even better, so that trees grow on it. Several methods for conducting mushroom sowing have been developed. You can, for example, find a place in the forest favored by porcini mushrooms, dig up fragments of the overgrown mycelium there, divide them into pieces the size of chicken egg and plant it on your site under the trees, covering it with a thin layer of forest soil on top. You can also use the caps of overripe mushrooms as a starting material for growing. They are cut into small pieces, mixed with soil and watered. The first harvest can be expected in a year.

Artificial cultivation“elite” mushrooms are a troublesome matter. Therefore, it’s much easier to stock up forest gifts in the traditional old-fashioned way: in the morning, pick up a basket and go to the forest. Judging by weather forecasters, the warm, fine season, so lovely for the mushroom growth, will last in our area for at least another week, so we all still have enough time to go on the “third hunt.”

Autumn is known not only for the beauty of nature preparing for a long winter sleep, but also for its many generous gifts. And today we are not talking about those products that you can grow in your garden, but about what our forests are rich in. More specifically, about mushrooms. With these amazing natural creatures There are many folk signs and superstitions associated with it, noticed by mushroom pickers and passed on from generation to generation. Today we will talk about the sign that many mushrooms appear.

Interpretation of signs about mushrooms

According to folk superstitions, Not in all cases a large number of mushrooms is a good thing. Our ancestors were especially wary of various natural anomalies. And when the delicacy beloved by many appeared in abundance, it was perceived as a definite warning that upheavals were coming.

But even despite this, mushroom season is always looked forward to. Mushroom pickers try to guess how productive it will be. Silent hunting is one of the favorite pastimes of many people. A large number of different beliefs and signs are associated with mushrooms.

So, the following facts will indicate a good mushroom harvest:

• at Christmas, “stars” sparkle brightly on the road;
• on the night before Christmas, as well as on Epiphany, many stars appeared in the sky;
• It rains on Annunciation Day; if there is severe frost on this day, do not be upset, the sign indicates an abundance of milk mushrooms;
• It rains all April;
• there is abundant mold in clearings, paths, and on old leaves left over from last year;

You will also know that there will be a lot of mushrooms by a number of signs during the mushroom season itself.

Most important indicator– the presence of rains, because after them a lot of mushrooms grow (especially milk mushrooms).

Also, strong fogs will indicate that it is time to prepare baskets and go into the forest. The appearance of the first summer fog will be a sign for you that mushroom season is coming in the near future. And if fogs have become commonplace, there will be a lot of mushrooms.

By signs you can calculate the place in which forest beauties hidden from prying eyes:

• if the weather is hot and dry, you should look for mushrooms under trees, in the shade;
• In warm but damp weather, mushrooms scatter across the clearings.

Our ancestors were so inventive that they even learned to set a specific time when certain varieties of mushrooms appear:

• So, when a pine tree begins to bloom, it means boletus has appeared;
• the rye is sprouting - it’s time to take a basket and go look for boletus mushrooms;
• when the rye ripened, the second harvest of boletus mushrooms ripened along with it;
• fluff appears on the aspen - you can prepare for the appearance of boletuses;
• when the oats ripen, feel free to go looking for honey mushrooms.

Different types of mushrooms interact with each other differently. Based on this indicator, you can also make a certain forecast:

• if wavelets appear, milk mushrooms will soon appear;
• if you notice fly agaric mushrooms with bright red caps - be careful, somewhere nearby there are porcini, “royal” mushrooms hiding;
• If you find one oiler, you should look for others next to it.

Many experienced mushroom pickers are of the opinion that the “mushroom index” is capable of predicting future events. So our distant great-great-grandmothers were sure that many mushrooms appeared before the war. And there was ample evidence of this. For example, old-timers recalled that the beginning of the summer of 1941 was very mushroomy. Chanterelles and boletus suddenly began to appear on the edges of many regions of Central Russia. At first people rejoiced, collected gifts from nature, and very soon, a few days later, the Great Patriotic War began.

Other signs and superstitions about mushrooms

I would especially like to dwell on porcini mushrooms. A large number of them has always been associated with a good grain harvest. The people even had a special saying for this occasion: “When it’s mushroomy, then it’s bready.”

In the event that mushrooms began to appear on the walls of a house, this promised a very rich year for the owner of the home. Those who give their preference " quiet hunt When looking for mushrooms, we firmly believe that porcini mushrooms usually hide not far from fly agaric mushrooms and are very fond of their neighbors. Therefore, if you unexpectedly come across a fly agaric in the forest, take a close look at your surroundings: it is likely that boletus mushrooms are hiding somewhere nearby.

Other mushroom pickers believe that by the presence of fern thickets it is easy to detect the growing area of ​​boletuses, although others believe that only fly agarics grow next to them. And this, if we remember the previous sign, will again lead us to porcini mushrooms.

If you notice a large number of porcini mushrooms in the forest, immediately grab the bulbs and run to harvest, because next year may not be so successful. Every year there is a degeneration of the mycelium, plus porcini mushrooms are a very popular product.

The appearance of porcini mushrooms in the forest is also indicated by the flowering of jasmine, and this can also be determined by the heavily swarming midges. You can go mushroom hunting after good, heavy rains, but it is important that August is also not stingy with rainfall. And also very good time for a foray into the forest - a period when a lot of mold appears on the paths.

And according to skeptics, there are never too many mushrooms. Therefore, stop thinking about the interpretation of this or that sign - quickly run into the forest and return from there with full basket porcini mushrooms, butter mushrooms, honey mushrooms, chanterelles and other yummy things!

“So that there is no war!” - one of the main toasts at any feast in not so long ago, when the memory of the Great Patriotic War was still fresh. Surprisingly, when trying to predict whether there will be a war or not, people still listen sensitively to rumors. Because there are time-tested signs that may indicate difficult trials ahead.

While licking your lips at the “world snack” laid out on a plate - freshly pickled honey mushrooms, do not forget to make the first toast to the fact that there will be no war. After all, a frighteningly large harvest of mushrooms, if you believe popular rumor, is sure to lead to a sudden outbreak of large-scale bloodshed.

The very first thing a pregnant woman doubts is whether or not to communicate her joy to others. Many peoples of the world have various rituals for hiding information from evil spirits. In Rus', when pregnancy became obvious, a woman changed into her husband’s clothes. And in Africa, amulets are painted on the stomach.

The sign is ancient, it lives from those times when internecine conflicts were commonplace and happened much more often than mushroom summers. And if in some area there actually were even a sideways growth of mushrooms, people were sure that trouble would certainly come to them. Since pagan times, the observant Russian people have been repelled by coincidences, often fatal. Linked a significant event to natural phenomenon- a belief has formed. Sometimes, however, it is too outlandish. For example, just before the abolition of serfdom in several Russian provinces, poultry was attacked by pestilence. The ensuing great reform peasant political science minds were retroactively linked to a local disaster. However, then for half a century there was no sign of any fateful innovations, and chickens still shed their hooves en masse from time to time.

But military signs are a special set of beliefs. Mushrooms are the most common of them, kind of related to demographics. It is believed that in a year when many more boys are born than girls, war will certainly happen. Because the Almighty (or the Mother of God?) took care in advance to make up for the future losses among the male population.

Not long ago, one of the journalists discovered the work of S.A., published in 1946. Novoselsky “The influence of war on the sex composition of children born” in the collection of works “Issues of maternal and childhood protection” of the Department of Health Organization of the Leningrad Pediatric Institute. Based on data on the birth rate in England, France, Germany and individual cities of Russia in the period from 1908 to 1925 (before the start of the First World War, during its course and several years later), the author came to the conclusion: at the end of the war, boys in countries The participants actually had more births, but only slightly. And immediately before it began, the indicators were normal, as in any other peaceful year.

Same with mushrooms: two in a row mushroom years were before the German attack on the Soviet Union, and even earlier - on the eve Russo-Japanese War. However, according to sources, the weather was appropriate - rainy, but not “rotten”.

In general, if we take the last one world war, the fatal year 1941 for us had almost no foreshadowing of the impending storm. True, in the west of the country, in Belarus, in June there were prolonged flashes in the sky, which the local residents interpreted unequivocally: war was coming. Moreover, the moon often appeared crimson-red, as if indicating great blood. But across the border was Poland, already occupied by the Germans, and, therefore, some anxiety was present.

To be fair, we note that on the eve of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, people in Belarusian villages were constantly talking about an imminent war. Precisely based on well-known signs. Thus, a cobweb covering a well was considered a sure sign of future hardships. Either the starving spiders spread their webs wider, or the people, gripped by a premonition of a common misfortune, took to pencil everything that confirmed their fears, but it turned out that the rumors were literally drawn from a well.

The stoves did not heat well - the wood was damp almost everywhere. The bread often turned out sour. The milk, on the contrary, tasted bitter that summer, although the grass where the cows grazed was the same as last year. The people, as they say, were confused, and anxious expectations grew. And the animals in the forests behaved more brazenly than usual, approaching human habitation not only at night, but also during daylight hours. It was as if it sensed the future feast of death and impatiently hurried to take its place. Crows were circling in clouds over the villages, as if over cemeteries. In addition, wolves winter nights howled stronger than ever, and, as the hunters noticed, they trampled “hungry paths” towards the West - where, if we remember the old beliefs, death and profit would come to the joy of predators. Well, and mushrooms - they really were visible and invisible...

By the way, there is an opinion that the common mushroom sign is actually not direct, but a “side” one. They say that a good harvest of mushrooms, as has long been noted, is usually accompanied by a rich harvest of grain, and this has long been considered an almost proven sign of an imminent war. But in both 1939 and 1940, the last peaceful year for us, bread, as luck would have it, grew moderately. Therefore, far from the western borders, the people were silent: no rumors, no signs...

For example, everyone knows the most common superstition: empty bottles be sure to clear the table away. They say they are going to the dead man. In fact, the emptied dishes, the keepers of traditions will tell you, should not be placed under the table, but should be left, but be sure to place them horizontally. To the perplexed “why?” will answer with the confidence of experts from “What? Where? When?”: in the old days, bottles were flat, so each vessel overturned on the table meant that today the deceased would not be among the drinkers - look how much they drank to their health!

True, in some places phenomena of a different order were observed. What people call signs. These are “one-off” phenomena, in contrast to signs that have been “tested” for centuries. Let's say, “crying” icons. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War icons of the Mother of God in a number of churches throughout Soviet Union suddenly they began to cry together. The priests, knowing the attitude of the authorities towards church miracles, asked parishioners not to talk about them, but can you hide an awl in a bag? Often it was necessary to officially disavow the rumors disturbing the Orthodox: they say, these are fictions, the temple is working as usual. In addition, the abbots themselves did not know how to interpret these signs. After all, it is unknown what events need to be linked to them: local or on a global scale. Although there is an old belief and is widely known: the Mother of God cries - this brings tears to the people.

Icons here and there “cry” and renew themselves to this day, but serious disasters, fortunately, occur much less frequently. But there is one sign that directly concerns the church: when there are more and more military people among those praying in the church, war is inevitable. But before the first Chechen war V Orthodox churches North Caucasus there was literally no crowd. Did the sign work? Hardly. The region smelled of gunpowder for several years, and people prayed for a peaceful resolution to the Caucasian problems.

And yet, sometimes something completely mysterious happened. In 1914, before the First World War, the monks of the Valaam Monastery saw an unidentified flying object in the sky, which they unambiguously interpreted as a military sign - and they were not mistaken. They simply didn’t know about “flying saucers” back then. The flying object in the shape of a cross was also observed by residents of Vladivostok with a mixture of horror and amazement - a few days before the start of the anti-Japanese military operation in 1945.

In general, experts assure folk customs and beliefs, one can believe in omens only when they are observed in the aggregate. If, say, the demographic imbalance is complemented by queues that appear out of nowhere in stores, a mass flight of cockroaches from homes, long unusual phenomena in an atmosphere like a rain of falling stars or bloody sunsets, then yes, by all indications there must be a war. True, it is not at all necessary that it will happen. Political scientists who are always mistaken still inspire more trust today than popular superstitions.

Although there is one undeniable sign that has been confirmed more than once. A few years before the start of large-scale wars, there was a major breakthrough in science and culture. In Russia on the eve of 1914, a constellation of talents shone, industry developed, and epoch-making discoveries were made. Even before World War II, scientific and technological progress was progressing by leaps and bounds, and military actions only spurred it on. Now in our science, alas, the former breakthrough is long gone. The culture is rather bad, literature and cinema are stagnant... So, by all indications, you can live peacefully for many more years?

Pah-pah!

People have learned to collect mushrooms since time immemorial. Since then, this useful and fascinating activity has acquired dozens of beliefs, signs and folk tricks. They still help many mushroom pickers figure out when and what mushrooms they should go into the forest for, and when there is no point in this trip.

At the same time, since our ancestors were religious people and revered folk traditions, many folk mushroom signs are associated with certain Christian or national holidays. Let's look at the most popular and effective of them.

• January 6. This day marks Christmas Eve. The sign says that if stars are shining on the road on the night before Christmas, berries and mushrooms will grow in large quantities.
• May 21. This is Midsummer's Day, or the Day of Ivan the Theologian. It is believed that if it rains on this day, the mushrooms will begin to grow almost like shelves.
• June 11. As you know, the vast majority of our ancestors were engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, which is why a folk sign appeared associated with the date of June 11 - the holiday of Fedosya the Giraffe. If the rye is heading well on this day, then there will be a lot of mushrooms.
• June 16. This is the day of Lukyan the Windy. If it rains all day on June 16th, then, as the villagers believed, the mushroom harvest will be glorious this year.
• July 7. This holiday is known, perhaps, not only to old-timers: Ivan Kupala is still celebrated in many Slavic cities. If the night during Kupala is starry, then the next morning a large number of mushrooms will begin to appear in the forest. Another forest omen is associated with this day: if a thunderstorm begins on the afternoon of July 7, then very few nuts will be produced this year, and even those will be empty.
• September 7. Our ancestors believed that if autumn leaves began to fall on this day, the deadline for collecting late mushrooms, colloquially called “deciduous mushrooms,” would come. There won't be any more mushrooms growing this year.
• September 8. This day is called Natalia fescue and is considered the best autumn day for going to the forest to pick mushrooms.

In addition to these folk signs tied to specific dates, there are many other beliefs that often turn out to be objective. We should not neglect them, since these signs are not the result of unfounded imagination, but the result of many years of serious observations, during which our ancestors were able to identify some natural patterns.

• So, for example, one of the folk signs says that rain on the Annunciation indicates the impending rapid growth of mushrooms, a thunderstorm indicates a rich harvest of nuts and a hot summer, and frost indicates a harvest of milk mushrooms.
• Rainy April is considered a harbinger of mushroom summer.
• Our ancestors considered the rapid growth of morels to be proof that they would reap a good harvest of buckwheat and millet.
• And the boletus harvest, according to the sign, should be expected exactly three weeks after unusual-looking mushrooms begin to appear in the forest.
• Frequent rains in July are considered a sign of a good mushroom harvest in the following months.
• If mold appears on last year’s leaves remaining in the forest, the season will be fruitful for saffron milk caps.
• Our ancestors also knew that the absence large quantity mushrooms combined with a good harvest of nuts is a warning of a harsh and snowy winter.
• If January turns out to be cold, then July will most likely be very warm and dry, and you will have to wait until autumn for mushrooms.
• Villagers considered the crackling of dried boletus mushrooms to be evidence of the first news of the approaching winter - frost in the field.
• It is also believed that if there is little snow on tree branches during the winter, there will be no good harvest of berries or mushrooms in summer and autumn.
• If the snow has melted in some place and mold has appeared, then it is in this place that many mushrooms will soon appear. This sign is very justified: mold from under the snow appears where mycelium (or mycelium) cells are present, which are extremely thin intertwined threads. It is the mycelium that forms the vegetative body of the fungus.
• During the waxing moon, our ancestors were in a hurry to go pick mushrooms, but during the waning moon they preferred to sit at home.
• In the heat and wind, they looked for mushrooms under the trees, and in damp, windy weather - in the clearings.
• If it rained in the evening, then in the morning, as they say, popular belief, you should expect a lot of mushrooms.
• The more during the spring-summer season it will rain, the more milk mushrooms there should be. Moreover, they will appear soon after the first waves appear in the forest.
• The first summer fog is the first signal of the arrival of mushroom season. The steamy fog formed over the forest is also considered evidence of the mushroom harvest.
• Farmers considered heavy morning dew a harbinger of fertility, and the frequent appearance of fogs as evidence of a good mushroom harvest.
• After the pine tree blooms, it’s time to go in search of a grainy oiler.
• If in the summer there are a lot of midges flying in the air, then you can safely go mushroom hunting.
• After the rye has begun to sprout, the first crops should appear in the forests and groves. mass gatherings boletus and porcini mushrooms. And after the first fluff flies from the aspen, boletuses will begin to grow.
• Porcini mushrooms, according to the deep conviction of our ancestors, grow not far from red fly agaric mushrooms.
• They also believed that looking for boletus mushrooms after the hot June was a waste of time.
• There must be others located next to one oiler.
• The second harvest of boletus will begin when the rye ripens.