How to Grow Mushrooms From Mushroom Growing Kits

Mushroom kits have actually had a good amount of bad press recently with many critics claiming 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 quantity of mushrooms that they produce.

polka dot shroom bars can purchase mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you can obtain button mushroom grow kits and you can get oyster mushroom grow kits. Both of these 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, letting you grow your own mushrooms like Shiitake, Portobello and more. These kits usually cost around �5 to �10 and can probably offer 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 buy a mushroom growing kit then it does to buy the mushrooms themselves. Almost all of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and so are usually grown far away 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 obtain the substrate (compost or straw) in addition to a small bag of spawn. When you buy mushrooms from the shop you aren’t left over 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’re growing mushrooms yourself – surely the excitement and fun factor are worth spending money on too.

In my opinion mushroom growing kits are an effective way of growing your personal mushrooms and even if sometimes they don’t offer amazing affordability when compared to the shop price become familiar with so much from carrying it out yourself and can probably take great pride in growing and eating your personal mushrooms. Maybe even once you have learned a bit more about cultivating mushrooms you can cut out the middleman and find your own substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and purchase or make your personal 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