Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Paperback – Illustrated, 25 Oct. 2000

This book contains a wealth of useful information about all aspects of mushroom cultivation. Though, from the point of view of a beginner, much of the information relates to large scale cultivation and laboratory techniques, all of it is relevant and adaptable to inform and improve simple home growing techniques. The genuine enthusiasm of the author comes across throughout, and the broad range of fungi knowledge presented will give the reader a good basic understanding of how fungi actually function, both in cultivation and in the wild, which is really important to be able to culture them effectively. The most useful section of all, in my optinion, is the section giving a full analysis of each cultivated species covered by the book. This gives the grower the exact tempertures, humidities, timescales etc. to aim for to get optimal results, which is obviously a great help when you're trying to get things working.

Great book, bad transitI've just started the bookbut even a brief flick through, knowing of Stamets and basics of cultivation, its clear this is a font of knowledge desirable by any amateur growerA warning to any buyer-1 careful when removing the book of amazon packaging, the adhesive on the sealed edge is that gunky sticky horrible stuff and it sticks to this book like nothing else.It took 10mins even with isopropyl-2 this book isn't beautiful, it feels like a large work book and there's a lot of pictures of it's damage when it arrives "new".Mine was the same, clearly storage or transit has issues, perhaps this explains the discountAs nice as beautiful books are, it is the contents that matter so still deserves 5*

Provided me with great insights & understanding as required

Informative and practical it sould be great to have all the pictures in colour but it's still a must-have by the master

This book is so fascinating. Full of interesting information. Definitely worth a read.

References in up-dated version don’t seem to match page numbers, however, still a comprehensive reference book for mushroom growers.

I wanted to know what i could grow to eat, this book covers that and nearly every type of mushroom I've ever see for medical production. I'll be using this book for most of my life and won't need another from what i can see.

One of the best books out there. It’s slightly complicated and very in depth but you well get all the information you need to get a proper understanding.