MUSHROOM CULTIVATION: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR OWN MUSHROOMS AT HOME. By Tavis Lynch.

2018 1st edition. Square 4to (220 x 260mm). Pp144. Colour photographs throughout, recipes. Stiff card covers.

This a practical and comprehensive guide to growing your own mushrooms, in logs, straw, sawdust, compost and woodchips on a relatively large scale. The author begins his culture with fungi collected from the wild - full instructions given, including how to tell if what has grown is what you thought you had collected. Chapters include: The basics; Growing mushrooms on logs - what to know about trees, identification, Shiitake, Hericium, forcing fruit for a quicker harvest; Growing mushrooms on straw - what to know about straw, three methods of preparing the straw, Oyster Mushrooms, Wine Cap Mushrooms; Growing mushrooms on sawdust and woodships - what to know about sawdust and wood chips, Oyster Mushrooms, Wine Caps, growing Wine Caps for weed suppression; Growing mushrooms on compost - what to know about compost, Blewits on leaf litter, Agaricus on compost, how to make your own compost pile; Problems and solutions - how to start slowly with a kit, how to identify what you have , what might go wrong and how to fix it; Processing and preparation - storing, drying, freezing; The finished product - cooking, recipes, pickling mushrooms.