Mushrooms: A Beginner's Guide To Home Cultivation (2nd Edition) (edible, fungi, cultivating, wild plants, compost, forest farming, foraging)

I am no mushroom expert, but the author makes a glaring mistake in the very first start of the book by claiming ALL mushrooms have gills.This is not true, some mushrooms have pores instead of gills Boletus Edulis or commonly called the "Penny Bun" is one such mushroom.He does correct the mistake later in the book.The book does a nice job explaining how mushrooms grow and the beneficial effects mushrooms have on the human body.Using a microwave oven to sterilize substrate is unique idea.As far as for a novice grower just getting busy growing mushrooms, this is a GREAT book at a GREAT price...FREE.For some reason my download did not contain pictures, but there are places that pictures should be.I would recommend this book for the Novice Mushroom Grower who is just getting started

The biggest problem with this book is that it has only 6 mushroom pictures. It is very difficult to identify mushroom good or poisonous from a description without seeing a photo. Majority of the mushrooms are described without photos.So even though the book has a reasonable amount of info about many mushrooms you would need to seek additional materials to get the visual information. So this book was a disappointment for me.Ali Julia review

Mushrooms are a pretty good source of protein and other nutrients, as well as being pretty tasty. That's why I decided to grow mushrooms at home. However, I have a little knowledge in cultivating mushrooms especially that there are different types of it.In this book, I've learned that mushrooms of specific types can be cultivated depending on the growing media. I recently acquired a few inoculated dowels. I have yet to see results on this. But a big thanks to this book, I was able to know what good types of mushrooms to grow as well as the step by step guide on how to cultivate them.

Mushrooms is a great diet for health. People don’t know how to grow them indoors. I was also getting guide from other how to grow. Then I read this book and I learn this is very easy to grow indoors. Indoor mushroom growing is a simple process that just about anyone who can follow simple directions can be successful with. There is given step by step guide. I recommend this book to all who want to grow mushrooms indoors.

83 pages long including the intro and credits. This book is a hodgepodge of paragraph snippets with very little to no complete information on any subject. If you are looking for a book that will give you step by step information on how to grow mushroom this is not the book you're looking for!!

Seriously, if you are wanting to learn more about the different types of mushrooms, wouldn't you want to see what they actually looked like! Please consider adding photos in the future (you could probably download them from the internet).

I was trying to buy the book ...not get it on the computer...and I have had trouble downloading and printing to have so I can reference different parts.

I am trying growing oyster mushrooms at this time and it is nice to have some help from the experienced.

Not a bad little book but does really tell or show you how to grow the different types of mushroom in detail.

Very little information. Pamphlet like 'book'. A complete waste of time and money. Nothing here that you cannot find for free on the internet.

The cover photo is exceptional, suggesting that the reader will be shown lots of clear diagrams and images that explain the process of home cultivation. Beware: this is a bait and switch situation. This book contains 10-20 pages of general info on growing mushrooms, with no pictures and a surprisingly large font. The rest is a very poorly written overview of different mushrooms (with a few b+w pictures) and five recipes.Choose another book.

Lots of useless info.

Got it O.K. Dave.