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 specific price of the mushrooms in the shops. I find this a very unfair comparison and feel that it is wrong to simply compare both with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.

Buy Golden teacher mushrooms can purchase mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you can find button mushroom grow kits and you could 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. Nevertheless, you may also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, letting you grow your own mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and will probably provide you with around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the perfect environment, and depending 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. Most of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and so are usually grown in other countries and imported across, where it really is so much cheaper for them to grow them. Then theres the fact 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 breakdown 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.

For me mushroom growing kits are an effective way of growing your personal 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 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 personal 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 few pounds investm