How exactly to Grow Mushrooms From Mushroom Growing Kits

Mushroom kits have actually had a fair 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 is wrong to simply compare the two with the amount of mushrooms that they produce.

You can buy 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. These two are the most common and may be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. However you may 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 best possible environment, and with regards to the variety as some mushrooms cost more then others in the shops).

mushroom spores uk understand why people moan when it costs more to buy a mushroom growing kit then it can to buy the mushrooms themselves. A lot 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 to allow them to grow them. Then theres the truth that in a kit you get a box and get the substrate (compost or straw) as well as 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 one of 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 paying for too.

For me mushroom growing kits are an effective way of growing your own mushrooms and even if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing affordability when compared to the shop price become familiar with so much from doing it yourself and can probably take great pride in growing and then eating your own mushrooms. Maybe even once you’ve learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you can cut out the middleman and find your personal substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and purchase or make your personal mushroom spawn. This is where you can get real affordability too, growing hundreds of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a few pounds investm