Mycelial Mayhem: Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting

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I got this for my Kindle and have been reading up on it the last day or so. They are fairly comprehensive on all aspects of mushroom growing and types AND the business end of it if you decide you want to go there.

there is a lot of good information in this book, however it does not go into great detail about actually growing mushrooms. It actually tells you to go elsewhere for that information. This is a book you need if you are interested in selling mushrooms. To grow mushrooms get Paul stamets the mushroom cultivator and growing edible and medicinal mushroom(also I would say you really need both of those)

It was fine

Good read

Great book!

False advertising imo. Absolutely no companion planting information. A scam if u asked me.Very beginner level book. Not for the avid aspiring mycologist.

This is a great book for mushroom growing. I am doing an intensive study on companion planting and came across this book. While the authors only give a snippet of information on companion planting with mushrooms, the very idea of it makes me smile.One benefit the authors points out in mushroom companion planting is how wine cap stropharia fight against late season tomato blight. In addition to that, the authors talk about placing shitaki logs under greenhouse tables and using them for building beds, and utilizing spent straw on garden beds to help build soil and enjoy small flushes from the left overs.Because this book has very little to actually say on companion planting, it falls at the end of my suggested reading list. If this list were on mushroom cultivation I would say it’s worth getting. To me the value of this book is not about the amount of information given, the value of the book comes from the very idea of incorporating mushrooms into a companion planting scenario. That is what makes it beautiful to me.Out of the 15 books I’ve read on companion planting my top three picks are:1. Great Garden Companions by Sally Jean Cunningham: a superb introduction to companion planting, neat garden layouts and ideas, awesome introduction to bugs (beneficial and harmful) with cool visual reference to their sizes, and plenty of companion planting gems worth learning.2. Rodale’s Guide to Companion Planting by Susan McClure and Sally Roth: an all-around decent introduction to companion planting from a respectful source that uses scientific research, personal experiences, and so on. While Great Garden Companions gives a more thorough introduction to companion planting, Rodale’s Guide still gives a decent introduction with the addition of sticking to the scientific evidence and offering many beautiful pictures.3. Concise Guide to Companion Planting by Tobias Moore: a very concise, compact, and affordable book. While the first two books offer more background information on companion planting and personal philosophies, Tobias skips the filler talk and instead gathers relevant information from a multitude of different sources and condenses it down into an easily accessible reference booklet. While I suggest you get one of my top two picks and this one, if you can only buy one book I would suggest A Concise Guide to Companion Planting as it gives all the needed information for you to be successful with companion planting: a perfect resource for those that don’t have the time to read a lot.

Exciting book to read, the authors provide detail explanation of what worked and didn't work for them as they grew their mushroom empire. Its technical but not full of jargon and frank on the issues which they didn't figure out. Very good advice if mushroom growing is what you want to do.

Great book.

There is a single chapter on how to grow a few varieties of mushrooms. The rest of the book is an introduction to fungi (fair enough), a little bit about how to sell what you grow (fair enough), a lot on permaculture, and a lot on business (both of which I have in other books by experts on those subjects). Despite there being a whole chapter supposedly dedicated to companion planting, like another reviewer, the only example I found in the whole book was the suggestion to grow wine cap stropharia under kale, or other shady veg, and that advice had already been mentioned in an earlier chapter.The book also repeats itself, gives information in a strange order, and contains a lot of typos.If you are interested in growing mushrooms, business and permaculture, then this may be the book for you. I suspect that, even so, you might be better getting three different books on each of the three subjects by different experts specialising in each of the fields.