One up bar have actually had a fair amount of bad press recently with many critics claiming that they provide very poor affordability when comparing the yields of the mushroom kits with the specific 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 quantity of mushrooms that they produce.

You can purchase mushroom growing kits for only a few different species of mushroom – you can obtain button mushroom grow kits and you may get oyster mushroom grow kits. Both of these are the most common and can be purchased for the most part garden centres and usually on garden centre websites. Nevertheless, you can also grow other varieties from more specialist websites, enabling you to grow your personal 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 with regards to the 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. Most of the supermarket mushrooms are grown massively in bulk and 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 obtain the substrate (compost or straw) in addition to a small bag of spawn. Once you buy mushrooms from the shop you aren’t left over with excellent compost for your garden (mushroom compost is probably the most expensive and nutritious forms of compost as the mushrooms break down and recycle many nutrients present in the substrate). And then there’s the fact that you are growing mushrooms yourself – surely the excitement and fun factor are worth paying for too.

In my opinion mushroom growing kits are an effective way of growing your own mushrooms and also if sometimes they don’t offer amazing affordability in comparison with 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 can cut out the middleman and find your personal substrate (straw, newspaper, manure) and buy or make your own mushroom spawn. That’s where you can get real affordability too, growing a huge selection of pounds worth of mushroom from literally a couple of pounds investm