Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press in recent times with many critics claiming that they provide very poor affordability when you compare the yields of the mushroom kits with the specific price of the mushrooms in the shops. I find this an extremely unfair comparison and feel that it is wrong to simply compare both with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.
You can buy mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you may get button mushroom grow kits and you may get oyster mushroom grow kits. These two 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, letting you grow your personal mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and much more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and can probably present you with around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the best possible environment, and with respect to the variety as some mushrooms cost more then others in the shops).
I don’t 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 is so much cheaper for them to grow them. Then theres the point that in a kit you get a box and obtain the substrate (compost or straw) in addition to a small bag of spawn. When where to but lsd buy mushrooms from a shop you aren’t left over with excellent compost for your garden (mushroom compost is one of the most expensive and nutritious forms of compost as the mushrooms breakdown and recycle many nutrients within the substrate). And there’s the fact that you’re growing mushrooms yourself – surely the excitement and fun factor are worth spending money on too.
In my opinion mushroom growing kits are an excellent way of growing your own mushrooms and also if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing value for money in comparison with the shop price you will learn so much from doing it 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 can cut out the middleman and find your personal substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and buy or make your personal mushroom spawn. This is where you can get real affordability too, growing hundreds of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a few pounds investm