Mushrooms: How to Grow Them For Profit and Pleasure

Mushrooms: How to Grow Them For Profit and Pleasure [Illustrated] The Classic & Practical Mushroom Growing Guide - Experience Complete Mushroom Culture As Never Read or Seen Anywhere

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.â€”Those Who Should Grow Mushrooms
Market Gardenersâ€” Floristsâ€” Private Gardenersâ€” Village People and Suburban Residentsâ€” Farmers. browse

CHAPTER II.â€”Growing Mushrooms in Cellars
Underground Cellarsâ€” In Dwelling Houseâ€” Mr. Gardner's Methodâ€” Mr. Denton's Methodâ€” Mr. Van Siclen's Methodâ€” The Dosoris Mushroom Cellar.

CHAPTER III.â€”Growing Mushrooms in Mushroom Houses
Building the Houseâ€” Mrs. Osborne's Mushroom Houseâ€” Interior Arrangement of Mushroom Housesâ€” Mr. Samuel Henshaw's Mushroom House.

CHAPTER IV.â€”Growing mushrooms in Sheds
The Temperature of Interior of the Bedâ€” Shelf Bedsâ€” The Use of the Term Shed.

CHAPTER V.â€”Growing Mushrooms in Greenhouses
Cool Greenhousesâ€” On Greenhouse Benchesâ€” In Frames in the Greenhousesâ€” Orchard Housesâ€” Under Greenhouse Benchesâ€” Among Other Plants on Greenhouse Benchesâ€” Growing Mushrooms in Rose Housesâ€” Drip from the Benchesâ€” Ammonia Arising.

CHAPTER VI.â€”Growing Mushrooms in the Fields
Mushrooms often appear Spontaneouslyâ€” Wild Mushroomsâ€” Mr. Henshaw's Planâ€” Brick Spawn in Pastures.

CHAPTER VII.â€”Manure for Mushroom Beds
Horse Manureâ€” Fresher the Betterâ€” Manure of Mulesâ€” Cellar Manureâ€” City Stable Manureâ€” Baled Manureâ€” Cow Manureâ€” German Peat Moss Stable Manure for Mushroom Bedsâ€” Sawdust Stable Manure for Mushroom Bedsâ€” Tree Leavesâ€” Spent Hops.

CHAPTER VIII.â€”Preparation of the Manure
Preparing out of Doorsâ€” Warm Sunshineâ€” Fire-fangâ€” Guard Against Over Moisteningâ€” The Proper Condition of the Manureâ€” Loam and Manure Mixed.

CHAPTER IX.â€”Making up the Mushroom Beds
The Thickness of the Bedsâ€” Shape of the Bedsâ€” Bottom-heat Thermometersâ€” The Proper Temperatureâ€” Too High Temperatureâ€” Keep the House at 55Â°.

CHAPTER X.â€”Mushroom Spawn
What is Mushroom Spawn?â€” The Mushroom Plantâ€” Spawn Obtained at any Seed Storeâ€” Imported from Europeâ€” The Great Mushroom-growing Center of the Countryâ€” English Spawnâ€” Mill-track Mushroom Spawnâ€” Flake or French Spawnâ€” Virgin Spawnâ€” How to Keep Spawnâ€” New Versus Old Spawnâ€” How to Distinguish Good from Poor Spawnâ€” American-made Spawnâ€” How to make Brick Spawnâ€” How to make French (flake) Spawnâ€” Making French Virgin Spawnâ€” A Second Methodâ€” Third Methodâ€” Relative Merits of Flake and Brick Spawn.

CHAPTER XI.â€”Spawning the Beds
Preparing the Spawnâ€” Steeped Spawnâ€” Flake Spawnâ€” Transplanting Working Spawn.

CHAPTER XII.â€”Loam for the Beds
Cavities in the Surface of Bedsâ€” The Best Kind of Loamâ€” Common Loamâ€” Ordinary Garden Soilâ€” Roadside Dirtâ€” Sandy Soilâ€” Peat Soil or Swamp Muckâ€” Heavy, Clayey Loamâ€” Loam Containing Old Manure.

CHAPTER XIII.â€”Earthing Over the Beds
Loam is Indispensableâ€” The Best Soilâ€” Proper Time to Case Bedsâ€” Inserting the Spawnâ€” Sifting the Soilâ€” Firming the Soilâ€” Green Sods.

CHAPTER XIV.â€”Topdressing with Loam
Beds that are in Full Bearingâ€” Filling up the Holesâ€” Firming the Dressing to the Bedâ€” Beds in which Black Spot has Appeared.

CHAPTER XV.â€”The Proper Temperature
Covering the Beds with Hayâ€” A High Temperatureâ€” In a Temperature of 50Â°â€” In a Temperature of 55Â°â€” Boxing Over the Bed.

CHAPTER XVI.â€”Watering Mushroom Beds
Artificially Heated Mushroom Housesâ€” Sprinkling Water over Mulchingâ€” Watering Potsâ€” Manure Waterâ€” Preparing Manure Waterâ€” Common Saltâ€” Sprinkling the Floorsâ€” Houses Heated by Smoke Fluesâ€” Manure Steam for Moistening the Atmosphere.

CHAPTER XVII.â€”Gathering and Marketing Mushrooms
When Mushrooms are Fit to Pickâ€” Pickingâ€” The Advantages of Pulling over Cuttingâ€” Pulled Mushroomsâ€” Gathering Field or Wild Mushroomsâ€” Marketing Mushrooms.

CHAPTER XVIII.â€”Re-invigorating Old Beds
Worn Out Bedsâ€” Spurts of Increased Fertilityâ€” A Spent Mushroom Bedâ€” Living Spawn.

CHAPTER XIX.â€”Insect and Other Enemies
Maggotsâ€” Black Spotâ€” Manure Fliesâ€” Slugsâ€” "Bullet" or "Shot" Holesâ€” Wood Liceâ€” Mitesâ€” Mice and Ratsâ€” Toadsâ€” Fogging Offâ€” Flockâ€” Cleaning the Mushroom Houses.

Mushroom Spores, Farming & MORE
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-08-26
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-08-26
Format	Kindle eBook

Mushrooms: How to Grow Them For Profit and Pleasure [Illustrated] The Classic & Practical Mushroom Growing Guide - Experience Complete Mushroom Culture As Never Read or Seen Anywhere

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