Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press in recent times with many critics claiming that they provide very poor value for money when you compare the yields of the mushroom kits with the actual price of the mushrooms in the shops. I find this a very unfair comparison and believe that it really is wrong to simply compare the two with the quantity of mushrooms that they produce.

You can purchase mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you may get button mushroom grow kits and you will get oyster mushroom grow kits. These two are the most common and may be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. Nevertheless, you can also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, letting you grow your personal mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and will probably offer you around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the perfect environment, and with respect to the variety as some mushrooms cost more then others in the shops).

I hardly understand why people moan when it costs more to buy a mushroom growing kit then it can to get the mushrooms themselves. choclate mushroom of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and are usually grown in other countries and imported across, where it really is so much cheaper for them to grow them. Then theres the fact that in a kit you obtain a box and obtain the substrate (compost or straw) in addition to a small bag of spawn. When you buy mushrooms from the shop you aren’t left over with excellent compost for the garden (mushroom compost is one of the most expensive and nutritious forms of compost as the mushrooms break down and recycle many nutrients present in the substrate). And there’s the fact that you are growing mushrooms yourself – surely the excitement and fun factor are worth paying for too.

In my opinion mushroom growing kits are an excellent way of growing your personal mushrooms and also if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing affordability when compared to the shop price become familiar with so much from carrying it out yourself and will probably take great pride in growing and eating your own mushrooms. Maybe even once you’ve learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you could cut out the middleman and find your own substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and purchase or make your personal mushroom spawn. This is where you can get real affordability too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a couple of pounds investm