Mushroom kits have actually had a fair amount of bad press in recent times 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 an extremely unfair comparison and believe that it really is wrong to simply compare the two with the quantity of mushrooms that they produce.
You can purchase mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you can find 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. However you can also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, enabling you to grow your personal mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and much more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and can probably provide you with around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the perfect environment, and with respect to the 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 can to buy the mushrooms themselves. The majority 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 buy psilocybin cheap that in a kit you obtain a box and get 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 the garden (mushroom compost is probably the most expensive and nutritious forms of compost as the mushrooms breakdown and recycle many nutrients present in the substrate). And then 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 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 then eating your personal mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a little 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