Introduction to Mushrooms: Grow Mushrooms for Pleasure and Profit

Table of Contents

Introduction to Mushrooms
Introduction
So What Is a Mushroom?
Mushroom Fungophobia
Fairy Rings
Mushroom Hunting
Cultivation of Mushrooms
How Are Mushrooms Grown
Making a Mushroom Bed
Best Mushroom Compost
Compost Fermentation
Pasteurization
Mushrooms in Shelves or Trays
Spawning
Watering of Mushrooms
Ventilating
Casing
Harvesting
Mushrooms in Cuisine
Mushrooms in Medicine
Conclusion
Mushroom Identification
Mushroom Guide
Is a Mushroom Edible
Getting to Know More about Morels
Learning about Truffles
Starting up a Mushroom Business
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

Just look at the illustration of any fairy story with a number of fairies, elves, gnomes, and other imaginary creations of the writer’s imagination. You are going to see them sitting on toadstools and mushrooms. The Amanita muscaria is one of the easiest recognizable of all these illustrations, because you see it ever so often in illustrations, associated with gnomes. In ordinary terms, this is called a toadstool.