Mushroom kits have actually had a fair amount of bad press recently with many critics claiming that 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 the two with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.

You can purchase mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you can obtain button mushroom grow kits and you could 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 will probably offer you around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the perfect environment, and based on the variety as some mushrooms cost more then others in the shops).

I don’t understand why people moan when it costs more to buy a mushroom growing kit then it does to get the mushrooms themselves. psychedelic mushroom chocolate bars uk of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and so are usually grown far away and imported across, where it is so much cheaper to allow 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 over with excellent compost for your garden (mushroom compost is among the most expensive and nutritious forms of compost as the mushrooms break down and recycle many nutrients within 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 own mushrooms and also if sometimes they don’t offer amazing affordability when compared to the shop price become familiar with so much from doing it yourself and can probably take great pride in growing and eating your personal mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you can 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 affordability too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a couple of pounds investm