The essential guide to cultivating mushrooms Simple and advanced techniques for growing shiitake, oyster, lion's mane, and maitake mushrooms at home
Book - 2014
Learn to grow the most popular species - oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, and maitake - in controlled indoor environments at home. Beginning with the best ways to ensure success with a kit and proceeding through advanced techniques for creating sawdust spawn, working with liquid cultures and fruiting chambers, and much more, Stephen Russell covers everything the home grower needs to know. A trusted reference for market growers, this book is also the perfect companion for hobbyists craving a steady supply of dinner-table mushrooms.--COVER.
- Subjects
- Published
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North Adams, MA :
Storey Publishing
[2014]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 232 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781612121468
- Pt. 1. Basics for beginners
- Getting to know mushrooms
- Basic growing options
- Combating contaminants
- Your first grow
- Pt. 2. Intermediate methods
- Pressure cookers and flow hoods
- Grain spawn
- Casings
- Liquid cultures
- Working with sawdust
- Mid-size fruiting chambers
- Pt. 3. Advanced methods
- Agar cultures
- Large-scale grain spawn
- Bulk substrates.
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