Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press in recent times with many critics claiming that they provide very poor value for money 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 is wrong to simply compare both with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.
You can purchase mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you can aquire button mushroom grow kits and you may get oyster mushroom grow kits. https://mentalitch.com/what-are-penis-envy-mushrooms-and-are-they-legal/ are the most common and can be purchased at most garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. However you can 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 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 don’t understand why people moan when it costs more to get a mushroom growing kit then it does to buy the mushrooms themselves. A lot of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and are usually grown in other countries 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. When you buy mushrooms from a shop you aren’t left with excellent compost for the garden (mushroom compost is probably the most expensive and nutritious types 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 paying for too.
For me mushroom growing kits are an effective way of growing your personal mushrooms and even if sometimes they don’t offer amazing value for money in comparison with the shop price become familiar with 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’ve learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you could cut out the middleman and discover 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