Mushrooms

Cool Greenhouses-- On Greenhouse Benches-- In Frames in the Greenhouses-- Orchard Houses-- Under Greenhouse Benches-- Among Other Plants on Greenhouse Benches-- Growing Mushroom...

Horse Manure-- Fresher the Better-- Manure of Mules-- Cellar Manure-- City Stable Manure-- Baled Manure-- Cow Manure-- German Peat Moss Stable Manure for Mushroom Beds-- Sawdust...

What is Mushroom Spawn?-- The Mushroom Plant-- Spawn Obtained at any Seed Store-- Imported from Europe-- The Great Mushroom-growing Center of the Country-- English Spawn-- Mill-...

Cavities in the Surface of Beds-- The Best Kind of Loam-- Common Loam-- Ordinary Garden Soil-- Roadside Dirt-- Sandy Soil-- Peat Soil or Swamp Muck-- Heavy, Clayey Loam-- Loam C...

Artificially Heated Mushroom Houses-- Sprinkling Water over Mulching-- Watering Pots-- Manure Water-- Preparing Manure Water-- Common Salt-- Sprinkling the Floors-- Houses Heate...

Ridges in the Open Field-- Bed Making-- Manure Obtained from City Stables-- The Site for Beds-- Planting the Spawn-- Drenching Rains-- Russia Mats-- The First Beds-- The First C...

Caves and Subterranean Passages-- The Manure Used-- Preparation of the Manure-- Making the Beds-- The Spawn-- Stratifying the Spawn-- Chips and Powder of Stone-- Earthing Over t...

Baked Mushrooms-- Stewed Mushrooms-- Soyer's Breakfast Mushrooms-- Mushrooms à la Crême-- Curried Mushrooms-- Broiled Mushrooms-- Mushroom Soup-- Mushroom Stews-- Potted Mushroo...

=Market Gardeners.=--The mushroom is a highly prized article of food which can be as easily grown as many other vegetable products of the soil--and with as much pleasure and pro...

=Underground Cellars.=--Mushrooms require a uniform moderately low temperature and moist atmosphere, and will not thrive where draughts, or sudden fluctuations of temperature or...

A mushroom house is a building erected purposely for mushroom culture. It may be wholly or partly above ground, and built of wood, brick, or stone, and extend to any desired dim...

Any one who has a snug, warm shed, may have a good mushroom house, but it is imperative that the floor should be dry, and the roof water-tight. Of course a close shed, as a tool...

Any one who has a greenhouse can grow mushrooms in it. And it does not matter what kind of greenhouse it is, whether a fruit house, a flower house, or a vegetable house, it is a...

Under suitable conditions we can grow mushrooms easily and abundantly in the open fields, and the planting of the spawn is all the trouble they will cause us. During the late su...

In order to grow mushrooms successfully and profitably a supply of fresh horse manure is needed, and this should be the very best that is made, either at home or bought from oth...

Get as good a quality of fresh horse manure as you can, and in sufficient quantity for the amount of bed or beds you wish to make. Next get it into suitable condition for making...

The place in the cellar, shed, house, or elsewhere, where we intend to grow the mushrooms, should be in readiness as soon as the manure has been well prepared and is in proper c...

What is mushroom spawn? Is it a seed or a root? Do you plant it or sow it, or how do you prepare it? are some of the questions asked me now and again. To the general public ther...

After the mushroom bed is made up it should, within a few days, warm to a temperature of 110° to 120°. Carefully observe this, and never spawn a bed when the heat is rising, or...

In growing mushrooms we need loam for casing the beds after they are spawned, topdressing the bearing beds when they first show signs of exhaustion, filling up the cavities in t...

This is an important operation in mushroom-growing, and the one for which loam is indispensable. It consists in covering the manure beds, after they have been spawned, with a co...

In beds that are in full bearing or a little past their best we often find multitudes of very small or what we call "pinhead" mushrooms, that seem to be sitting right on the top...

The best temperature at which to keep the mushroom house or cellar is 55° to 57°. But much depends upon the method of growing the esculent; the construction of the house or cell...

If the beds get dry they should be watered, for mushrooms will not grow well in dry beds or in a dry atmosphere. Watering is an operation requiring much care. In properly-made b...

When mushrooms are fit to pick depends upon several conditions; for instance, whether for market or for home use, and if for the latter, whether they are wanted for soups or ste...

There is a wide-spread impression among horticulturists that worn out beds which have ceased to bear may, by means of watering and certain stimulants and warming up again, be so...

The mushroom grower has his full share of insects to contend with, and in order to overcome them one should acquaint himself with them, and know what they are, what they do, whe...

"Mr. W. Falconer and Mr. C. W. Shaw made, in connection with the London _Garden_, what we believe to be the first attempt at long and systematic observation of the best culture...

In caves and subterranean passages underneath the city of Paris and its environs, thousands of tons of mushrooms are artificially produced every year. These underground caves an...

Fresh mushrooms, well cooked and well served, are one of the most delicious of all vegetables. If we grow our own mushrooms we can gather them in their finest form, cook them as...