The essential guide to cultivating mushrooms : simple and advanced techniques for growing shiitake, oyster, lion's mane, and maitake mushrooms at home / Stephen Russell.

Includes bibliographical references (page 228) and index.

Getting to know mushrooms -- Basic growing options -- Combating contaminants -- Your first grow -- Pressure cookers and flow hoods -- Pressure cookers and flow hoods -- Grain spawn -- Casings -- Liquid cultures -- Working with sawdust -- Mid-size fruiting chambers -- Agar cultures -- Large-scale grain spawn -- Bulk substrates.

Learn to grow the most popular species - oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, and maitake - in controlled indoor environments at home. Beginning with the best ways to ensure success with a kit and proceeding through advanced techniques for creating sawdust spawn, working with liquid cultures and fruiting chambers, and much more, Stephen Russell covers everything the home grower needs to know. A trusted reference for market growers, this book is also the perfect companion for hobbyists craving a steady supply of dinner-table mushrooms.--COVER.