How to Grow Button Mushrooms – Complete DIY Budget Friendly Guide

If growing white button mushrooms at home is on your checklist of gardening goals, then you will want to stick around at the Garden Bench Top.

Today we are going to guide you through the process of putting together your very own DIY button mushroom growing kit.

What we love about this particular method is that it is both easy to follow AND budget friendly. This means cultivating button mushrooms at home can be achieved by anyone with a passion, and is not only limited to those with the budget for expensive and over-the-top equipment.

You can expect to learn:

• easy to follow steps to constructing a home button mushroom grow kit
• how to choose the best substrate for your grow kit
• how to cultivate mushrooms from your store bought leftovers

So if you’re ready to begin your mushroom growing adventure, brush off your gardening trowel and let’s get into it.

Why Growing Button Mushrooms at Home Makes Sense

For those of you who are still undecided whether you should attempt growing white button mushrooms at home, here are a few fun facts that may get you over the fence.

It makes Financial Sense

Growing button mushrooms actually makes a lot of sense when it comes to trimming the household food budget.

Yes, you are paying for the growing medium and mushroom spores. However, the volume of mushrooms you can harvest from your DIY grow kit is much more than if you were to travel to your supermarket and pick up a punnet of mushrooms from your local store.

Once you become adept at becoming a home mushroom farmer, you can cultivate many flushes of mushrooms from a single kit. And the spent substrate is highly nutritional for your garden.

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Now, we understand this may not be high on your list of values that you can derive from growing your own button mushrooms. But if you are a frequent visitor at the Garden Bench Top, you will know this is a huge deal for us. Anything related to positive impacts on our home planet gets a big tick from us.

Consider, for a moment, the amount of packaging and plastic wrapping you end up throwing away from the goods you buy at your local supermarket. It is excessive and, to be honest, unnecessary. Now think about how much you are reducing your contributions to landfill by growing your own fresh delicious mushrooms.

Intrinsically Rewarding

Okay, we know you didn’t come here for a pep talk, but we have one final benefit you can receive by growing button mushrooms.

It is simply fun and personally satisfying.

For us, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing your family and friends enjoying home – grown produce (yes – we are probably biased).

You know it is authentically organic, and there are no added chemicals or toxins. There is nothing more satisfying.

That is the last of it, we promise. Now let’s get into the fun part of the article – growing button mushrooms in your own backyard.

Growing Button Mushrooms WITHOUT A Kit

Growing mushrooms at home is a wonderful journey for any level of home gardener.

White buttons are actually one of our preferred mushrooms for beginners to grow. The reason is they are much more forgiving, than more sensitive mushrooms (such as Lionsmane mushrooms). They don’t require expensive equipment, and are not high maintenance. For instance, if you forget to harvest