Description
Written for commercial mushroom growers, this vintage, specialised text provides a comprehensive, practical guide to mushroom cultivation, though still provides interesting and relevant information for the mushroom cultivation enthusiast. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs, it covers a broad range of topics. Contents include: Mushrooms – Preface – Acknowledgments – introduction – Analysis of Fresh Mushrooms – General Growing Requirements – Where Mushrooms Can Be Grown – Manure and Straw – Composting – Alternative and Synthetic Composts fortifying Poor Quality Manure – Filling and Sweating-Out – Spawn and Spawning Supervising The Spawn Run – Casing and Casing Soil – Cropping, Picking, Marketing, and Production Methods – Avoiding Trouble – Parasitic Fungi and Diseases, Weed Fungi, Mushroom and Spawn Conditions – Flies, insect Pests, and Rodents – Tray Culture or the Two-Zone System – Bibliography. We are republishing this rare work in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, featuring reproductions of the original artwork and a newly written introduction.
