Mushroom kits have actually had a fair amount of bad press in recent times with many critics claiming that they provide very poor affordability when comparing the yields of the mushroom kits with the actual price of the mushrooms in the shops. I find this a very unfair comparison and feel that it really is wrong to simply compare both with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.

You can buy mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you will get button mushroom grow kits and you could get oyster mushroom grow kits. These two are the most common and can be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. However you can also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, enabling you to grow your own mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and much more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and will probably present you with around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the best possible environment, and with regards 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 buy the mushrooms themselves. The majority of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and so are usually grown far away and imported across, where it really is so much cheaper to allow them to grow them. Then theres the truth that in a kit you obtain a box and get the substrate (compost or straw) as well as a small bag of spawn. When psilo delic buy mushrooms from the shop you aren’t left over with excellent compost for your garden (mushroom compost is among the most expensive and nutritious types of compost as the mushrooms break down and recycle many nutrients present in 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 effective way of growing your personal mushrooms and even if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing value for money when compared to the shop price become familiar with so much from doing it yourself and will probably take great pride in growing and then eating your personal mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a little more about cultivating mushrooms you could cut out the middleman and discover your personal substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and buy or make your personal mushroom spawn. This is where you can get real value for money too, growing hundreds of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a few pounds investm