Home-Grown Mushrooms from Scratch
Home-grown mushrooms are both delicious and nutritious (rich in Vitamin D, amino acids and minerals). This practical book describes how to grow 19 different species including shiitake, oyster and button mushrooms indoors and outside. Once established, many fruit year after year so they are worth taking the time to cultivate.
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What reviewers said.
The guide is beautifully presented with bright photographs and hand-drawn diagrams providing an easy-to-follow manual for all. A great guide for gardeners and avid naturalists.
— Countryside magazine
I can’t recommend Home Grown Mushrooms from Scratch enough. Even if you don’t intend to grow mushrooms, it’s a fascinating read. If you do, it’s an invaluable guide and reference.
— John Harrison, allotment-garden.org
Magdalena Wurth.
Magdalena Wurth is an agricultural scientist and an enthusiastic home mushroom grower, born into a family that has spent the better part of three decades cultivating fungi on logs and substrate in the wooded country north of the Danube. With her father Herbert — a former chemist who has worked on mushroom cultivation in both lab and garden for more than thirty years — she runs the Waldviertler Pilzgarten, a working mushroom garden in Lower Austria that offers classes, advice and starter material to home growers across the German-speaking world.
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Herbert Wurth trained as a chemist at the Vienna University of Technology, where a research project on mushroom propagation set him on what turned into a thirty-year second career. He has been cultivating fungi in the laboratory and in the garden ever since, working steadily through species that most amateurs are told are out of reach — shiitake, lion's mane, oyster mushrooms, truffles.
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