Mushroom kits have actually had a fair amount of bad press in recent times 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 a very 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 may get oyster mushroom grow kits. Both of these are the most common and can be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. Nevertheless, you may also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, enabling 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 best possible environment, and according to the variety as some mushrooms cost more then others in the shops).

One up mushroom chocolate bar don’t understand why people moan when it costs more to get a mushroom growing kit then it can to buy the mushrooms themselves. A lot 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 point that in a kit you obtain a box and get the substrate (compost or straw) as well as a small bag of spawn. Once you buy mushrooms from a shop you aren’t left with excellent compost for your garden (mushroom compost is probably 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 are 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 also if sometimes they don’t offer amazing affordability when compared to the shop price you will learn so much from carrying it out yourself and will probably take great pride in growing and eating your own mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you could cut out the middleman and discover your own substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and buy or make your personal mushroom spawn. That’s where you can get real affordability too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a couple of pounds investm