The Mushroom Book For Beginners: 2nd Edition Revised : A Mycology Starter or How To Be A Backyard Mushroom Farmer And Grow The Best Edible Mushrooms At Home Paperback – October 11, 2012

A lot of information is in this book. My package came quickly and the book was in good condition. I would recommend this this fungi book to others fascinated and foraging

Well written narrative but could have a bit more detail

This was a complete waste os $3.00. The reason i gave this 1 star is because amazon does not allow posting reviews with 0 stars.This is a very complete and detailed summary of the book:You can grow mushrooms. Indoors or outdoors. They take longer to grow outdoors. Grow them from a kit or from spores. They need certain conditions to grow. They are fun to watch growing and are tasty. You can fry, slice, freeze and dry them. Keep things clean. Here's my amazon shopping list with everything you'll need. Links to other books.Most of the stuff in the list (that I quickly eyed over) is stuff put in there so the author can make a little bit of cash every time someone buys one of the items in the list. Some of them aren't even needed to grow mushrooms at all.The links to other books? Don't bother. Just a bunch of other so called books like this one.The reality is that this should have been a free pamphlet. You'll get a lot more out of videos on youtube and some really great web sites out there.

It's very good as an introductory read, to think about the topics that you'll run into later if you embark on growing mushrooms as a hobby. However, it's only a very general survey, and doesn't come close to providing all of the information you'd need to actually start. It assumes you will get a lot of this information from a mushroom-growing kit, so if you don't want to start from a kit, you will certainly be required to find other references. And if you do want to start from a kit, chances are, you'll have most of the information you need with your instructions.

This is a great book for beginners to get their heads into mushrooms. It covers the basic background behind mushrooms, their history and a number of varieties and an outline of mushrooms varieties suited to growing at home.The book then moves on to provide a walkthrough of the process of growing mushrooms and a sampling of the equipment that the author recommends to grow mushrooms and well as a number of tips to aid growth including the all important place you select to grow your mushrooms.The overall style is kept simple and easy which is very handy for those people just starting out.I found the section of organic solutions to deal with pests useful as I'm not a fan of using chemical sprays, so this will also appeal to the organic fans out there.The parts about ways to preserve your mushrooms and drying methods were also helpful.Overall, recommended for beginners

two stars just because I feel generous and like people who love mushrooms. This book basicaly doesn't contain any useful information HOW to grow mushrooms. A lot of chaff, talking about commercial kits, nothing about technical details of it. The booklet is quite skiny, some 45 pages that include dedication, contents, etc. that could be possible to digest in 3 or 4 pages of foreword and followed with a real info how to do it. I would gladly pay more. The booklet is more about "why to grow mushrooms" which is something I don't need any info about, because I love them and in Southern California they are very sparce in wild.Also one technical correction - you DON"T need a pressure cooker to get temperatures in the 160 - 200 F range. The boiling temperature of water is 212 F at sea level; you would have to be living at almost 7,000 feet to get water boiling in less than 200 F.Sorry, Mister Randall...

I love mushrooms, especially in the fall picking them fresh in the fields near my home. I must say I thought I knew a lot about them until I started reading this book! I had no idea that there were 5 different parts to a mushroom. The book goes into great detail on the anatomy and life cycle of the mushroom, the many different types and has pictures of them too. I have to say that the tips for growing mushrooms at home are really helpful and doing it organically is a must. You will discover this and more inside this well put together book!

The author of this manual follows the KISS principle: keep it simple, stupid! I found this book to be well-written with great examples, short, sweet, and to the point. If you've ever considered raising your own mushrooms, Frank Randall delivers with specific examples. He tells you the positive and negative of his experiences of growing different varieties of mushrooms, as well as what to try as a beginner and what varieties to wait on growing until you have more experience (but with tips on how to grow the harder ones).I have started my first batch using this guide - wish me luck! I picked this up for free during a Kindle promotion and, as I write this review, I see the pricing is now at $2.99 - money well-spent.