Mushroom kits have actually had a fair amount of bad press in recent times with many critics claiming 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 really is wrong to simply compare both with the quantity 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 may get oyster mushroom grow kits. Both of these are the most common and will be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. However you may also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, letting you grow your personal mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and 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 hardly understand why people moan when it costs more to get a mushroom growing kit then it does to get the mushrooms themselves. Almost all 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 psychedelic mushroom chocolate bars uk that in a kit you obtain a box and obtain the substrate (compost or straw) as well as 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 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 paying for too.
In my opinion 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 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 could 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 couple of pounds investm
