GROWING GOURMET - Anto2ni.it

CHAPTER 3
S electing a Candidate
for Cultivation
Many mushroom hunters would love to have their favorite
edible mushroom growing in their backyard. Who would not
want a patch of Matsutake, Shaggy Manes, giant Puffballs or the
stately Prince gracing their property? As the different seasons roll
along, gourmet mushrooms would arise in concert. Practically speaking,
however, our knowledge of mushroom cultivation is currently
limited to 100 species of the 10,000 thought to exist throughout the
world. Through this book and the works of others, the number of
cultivatible species will enlarge, especially if amateurs are encouraged
to boldly experiment. Techniques for cultivating one species
may be applied for cultivating another, often by substituting an ingredient,
changing a formula, or altering the fruiting environment.
Ironically, with species never before grown, the strategy of "benign
neglect" more often leads to success than active interference with the
natural progression of events. I have been particularly adept at this
non-strategy. Many of my early mushroom projects only produced
when I left them alone.
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