The mushroom season is also in full swing in Saxony, providing mushroom consultants with plenty of work. "The weather is ideal at the moment, the mushrooms like it: wet, not too warm, sometimes a little cooler," explained Sieglinde Köhler, district mushroom consultant in the district of Central Saxony. "Porcini mushrooms are now growing en masse and are hardly infested with maggots. Because it rained beforehand, insects couldn't "bite" them." September and October are the best time of year for mushrooms - but not for all of them.
Edgar Fenzlein, mushroom expert for the district of Leipzig, has found that the growth of mushrooms is also linked to the phases of the moon. It is particularly good when the moon is waxing. "When it goes beyond the full moon, it can get worse again."
Peter Welt, Chairman of the Chemnitz Mushroom Friends, does not yet want to talk about a super mushroom year. For that, mushrooms would have to be available in this quantity over a longer period of time. Certain types of mushrooms would only grow in a certain period of time. In principle, however, mushrooms are available all year round. Oyster mushrooms or velvet toadstools, for example, are typical winter mushrooms. What a mushroom needs to grow in nature is not really known - unlike a cultivated mushroom such as the button mushroom, said Welt.
