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 they provide very poor affordability when comparing the yields of the mushroom kits with the actual 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 quantity of mushrooms that they produce.
You can buy mushroom growing kits for just a few different species of mushroom – you can aquire button mushroom grow kits and you could get oyster mushroom grow kits. These two are the most common and will be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. However you can also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, enabling you to grow your own mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and much more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and can probably present you with around �5 worth of mushrooms (if grown in the perfect environment, and according to the 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. Almost all of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and so are usually grown in other countries and imported across, where it is so much cheaper to allow them to grow them. Then theres polka dot mushroom bar that in a kit you obtain a box and get the substrate (compost or straw) in addition to a small bag of spawn. Once you buy mushrooms from a shop you aren’t left with excellent compost for your 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 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 excellent way of growing your own mushrooms and also if sometimes they don’t really offer amazing value for money 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 have learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you can cut out the middleman and discover your personal substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and purchase or make your personal mushroom spawn. That’s where you can get real value for money too, growing hundreds of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a few pounds investm