Mushroom kits have actually had a fair amount of bad press recently with many critics claiming 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 is wrong to simply compare both with the quantity of mushrooms that they produce.
You can buy mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you will get button mushroom grow kits and you may 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 more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and can probably give you around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the best possible environment, and depending on 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 does to buy the mushrooms themselves. A lot of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and so are usually grown in other countries and imported across, where it is so much cheaper for them to grow them. Then theres the fact that in a kit you get 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 your garden (mushroom compost is one of the most expensive and nutritious types of compost as the mushrooms breakdown 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.
For me mushroom growing kits are an excellent way of growing your own 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 can probably take great pride in growing and eating your personal mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a little more about cultivating mushrooms you can cut out the middleman and discover your personal substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and purchase or make your personal mushroom spawn. ONE UP MUSHROOM CHOCOLATE BARS FOR SALE is where you can get real affordability too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a couple of pounds investment