We bought a kit from a garden centre, brown mushy kit.. it was about £7 and tbh we've been quite disappointed with it's yields even for its size.

We eat a lot of mushrooms.. 3-4 people 3-4 times a week, we're going to need something bigger, but all the kits i see seem to be those little ones, not much good for getting a lot

So, we need something bigger.. either a kit you can buy which is large, or instruction on making our own boxes? can anyone help?

cheers

i know of a few different recipes for decent substrates, but these are mostly for cubensis. dont know too much about the living conditions of the main edible species [agaricus bisporus]
it could be as easy as making a liquid culture [which is basically a jar of watered down honey] of the spore print, then innoculating grain or soil, which i presume your kit came with?

with a kit, all your doing is paying over the top for a bag of substrate.. find out what you need, then cut out the middle man. but it all depends how sophistocated you want to get, and how much room your willing to take up with giant tupperware boxes, etc

definately worth it if you think you might be interested in growing some of the more exotic or medicinal edibles that you cant get in shops.

Which? Gardening recently did some trials on the most commonly available grow your own mushroom kits and iirc none of them scored very well and in most cases it worked out cheaper to go and buy the ready grown ones from the supermarket

i have bought the kitts in the past and they are crap . then a few years back i woz talking to an old fella who told me somthing that works very well ! near wear i live there is a mushroom farm and they are allways selling bags of used mushroom compost . bought a couple of bags put them in to some big flat trays and left in a warm dark place . you soon have moor mushrooms than you can eat +its very very cheap

peace out farmer boy

I concur with the above - though I used to work in agro-science so had samples at all stages - I just mixed it all up, stuffed it in washing up bowls, put it in the scullery and cased it with unsterilised garden soil when the mycelium was well established. Ideally one would use better soil - usually PH balanced I think - limed.

After several flushes I used it in the garden and still had mushrooms sprouting underground.

In theory at that point you could re-sterilise and "sow" oyster mushroom - which will eat almost anything.

I agree too,got given one last year,got one rather large mushroom in all and it tasted horrible.

I think I’ll look in to this mushroom growing malarkey. We go through at least a couple of pound of shrooms a week. One of my favorite nibbles is mushrooms.

That's a pity

I could eat mushrooms all day every day....

Why do they have to be such a pain in the arse to grow