Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press recently with many critics claiming that 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 feel that it is wrong to simply compare the two with the quantity of mushrooms that they produce.
You can purchase mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you can aquire button mushroom grow kits and you will get oyster mushroom grow kits. Both of these 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 personal mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and much more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and will probably give you 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. shroom living gummies 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 truth that in a kit you get a box and get the substrate (compost or straw) in addition to a small bag of spawn. Once you buy mushrooms from the 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 break down and recycle many nutrients present in 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.
For me mushroom growing kits are an excellent 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 you will learn so much from doing it 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 find your own substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and buy or make your personal mushroom spawn. That’s 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
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