Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press in recent times with many critics claiming that they provide very poor affordability 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 both with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.

You can purchase mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you will get button mushroom grow kits and you will get oyster mushroom grow kits. These two are the most common and can 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 give you around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the best possible environment, and depending on 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 get the mushrooms themselves. The majority of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and are usually grown in other countries and imported across, where it is so much cheaper for them to grow them. Then theres the point 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 with excellent compost for the 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 fusion bar mushroom 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 own mushrooms and also if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing affordability in comparison with 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’ve learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you can cut out the middleman and discover your own substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and buy or make your own mushroom spawn. This is where you can get real affordability too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a few pounds investm