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

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

I hardly understand why people moan when it costs more to get a mushroom growing kit then it can to get the mushrooms themselves. Most of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and are usually grown far away 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) as well as a small bag of spawn. Once you buy mushrooms from a shop you aren’t left over with excellent compost for the garden (mushroom compost is among 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 spending money on too.

In Scooby Snacks Shroom Capsules growing kits are an excellent way of growing your personal mushrooms and even if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing value for money in comparison with the shop price become familiar with so much from carrying it out yourself and will probably take great pride in growing and eating your personal mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you could cut out the middleman and find your personal 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 few pounds investm