Growing Wild Mushrooms: H

A Complete Guide to Cultivating Edible and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms by Bob Harris The most complete beginner's guide to growing mushrooms in print. Step-step instructions, with drawings and photographs (16 in full color), introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods: from sterile culture procedures (the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques) to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. This newly revised edition includes an expanded compost section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and an updated taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms. A reader: 'Growing Wild Mushrooms is a good book for a biggining Mycologist. It runs through the basic procedures from making an agar medium to harvesting. But what makes this book worth a four star rating is it's wonderful color photos. It's one thing to read text, but quite another to to see clear illustrations. I would recommend this book to any aspiring Mycologist.' Paperback, 86 pages

Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms: F

By Paul Stamets and J.S. Chilton. This book details the cultivation of 16 edible (including the Button/Portobello mushrooms) and psychoactive species and control measures for 40 genera of contaminants. Softcover. 415 pages, with 249 black and white photographs, diagrams and scanning electron micrographs, this book is highly reviewed and used throughout the world as a mycological textbook. Known throughout the world as ''The Grower's Bible.'' As Doctor Alexander Smith once said, ''This book should be in every mycological laboratory.'' ''Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms'' is designed to be used as a companion guide to ''The Mushroom Cultivator.'' What does ''The Mushroom Cultivator'' have that ''Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms'' does not? *Formulas for producing high quality compost *Control measures and descriptions for 40 genera of contaminants including bacteria, molds and insects *Descriptions for the cultivation of four Psilocybe species These two volumes, in tandem, are encyclopedic in scope and are a must for the bemushroomed cultivator.