Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press recently with many critics claiming they provide very poor affordability when comparing 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 really is wrong to simply compare both with the quantity of mushrooms that they produce.

You can purchase mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you can get button mushroom grow kits and you can get oyster mushroom grow kits. These two are the most common and may 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 own mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and much more. psilo delic cost around �5 to �10 and can probably present you with around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the perfect 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 get a mushroom growing kit then it does to get the mushrooms themselves. The majority of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and are usually grown in other countries 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 get the substrate (compost or straw) as well as a small bag of spawn. When you buy mushrooms from the shop you aren’t left with excellent compost for your garden (mushroom compost is among the most expensive and nutritious forms of compost as the mushrooms breakdown and recycle many nutrients within the substrate). And then 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 even if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing value for money when compared to the shop price become familiar with so much from carrying it out yourself and can probably take great pride in growing and eating your own 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 own mushroom spawn. This is where you can get real value for money too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a few pounds investm