Growing Edible Mushrooms (All About Mushrooms)

this is not really a book, it is like a small pamplet with minimal info. it was cheap, but still not worth it

doesnt really explain much but it quick and easy to get you started, with what you need to start learning

I thought growing Oyster and Shiitake mushrooms in our Hawaiian rainforest location would be a natural, and that it would extend our food-growing capabilities, make us more self sufficient in our off-grid home, and provide delicious meals. This book gives specific temperature requirements for different mushrooms and has a lot to say about pasteurization and cleanliness in general. But the bottom line is that you need absolutely sterile spaces for growing, perfect temperatures, and can't even breath on the mushrooms without ruining everything. My experiments were a total bust. But if you can guarantee the right conditions, this book could be a help. Lynne Farr, author of Off The Grid: What's Cookin'?

Good information on growing your own mushrooms is difficult to find. This book does a nice job covering the basics of the subject. HOWEVER, it does NOT tell you how to go through the process of working with liquid cultures, nor does it deal effectively with substrate materials (some shrooms like wood, others manure, other some combo). It's a decent book for orientation but for how to work the trenches you will get more info using Google or another search engine.

This was stuffing to qualify for the free shipping on a related item. Nothing wrong with it but its more a less a short pamphlet with a brief overview of some edible mushroom varieties.

wonderful

Don't waste your time or money. I didn't expect much and was still disappointed. Very disappointed. Thin booklet, but not enough information to justify killing trees or burning petro to recycle. Some specific problems include very general information with practically nothing specific about cultivating different varieties. A list describing a few varieties with approximate growing temperature range was the one exception, even that was inadequate because there was only one generic entry for all species of Oyster mushrooms so only one temp was given. Much space in the list was devoted to nutritional analysis of the variety, useless because I did not buy this to find out how much eating various kinds of mushroom will contribute to my carb intake. The few pages devoted to cultivation described creating compost well, that was about the only useful info in the whole book, and I'd already found lots of other equally good sources online for free. Nothing about growing on sawdust, log cultivation, etc. Consider, it has taken me longer to write this review than it took to read every page of the booklet, and I'm egotiscal enough to believe this review contains more useful information too. PS - I tried to give zero stars but Amazon doesn't allow that.

a little thin, expected a little more, but didn't research it much as it was quite inexpensive, so will resort to more detailed books