How to grow an internal salad year -round garden
Do you dream of fresh green and colorful salad? Develop and collect sprouts in the room so that these dreams become a reality!
I tried all these methods and more to come up with what I needed for all -season salads. This chapter is a summary of the methods and reasons used for which I decided to grow soil sprouts throughout the rest.
Benefits of soil cultivation
Some may wonder: “Why grow sprouts in the soil?” You can ask: “Why not grow sprouts in jars like everyone else?”
When I started experimenting with garden techniques for the first time, I already unloaded the alfalfa and mung beans in jars. Based on this, I expanded the types of seeds that I rose. I added clover, lentils, various mixtures of sprouts, and even tried onion seeds because they were replaced by catalogs.
I looked like jars, baskets, bags and plastic spro -spro -spro -core, everything to create an internal garden to fill a salad bowl. One problem with these sprouts had no solution: my family was summer for salads I created.
They were fine with adding sprouts to the leaves of leaves and they had nothing against the mung bean sprouts in fry with other vegetables, but it was enough sprouts for everyone.
I was looking for greenery that I could grow and utilize only for a thrown green salad.
I liked these early time-honored sprouts, but to tell the truth, I wasn’t fully satisfied either. When I gave lush and tasty greens that grew from sprouts grown in the soil, my family’s reaction told the story that I want to hear. Everyone, including children, liked salads.
I had a variety of greenery that I was looking for-looked in the soil looked like ordinary thrown salads. I achieved the appearance and texture I wanted.
10 good reasons to grow in soil compared to time-honored methods
Most gurus in the field agree that the sprouts grown on the soil are also more nutritious. It is suggested that the roots can constantly take full nutrients from the soil, compost and seaweed as it increases, even in its very miniature growing cycle.
I didn’t find any tests Support this claim, but there is a lot of evidence that shows that soil sprouts are a good food. I see no sense to make them “better” to justify their cultivation on the soil; There are many good reasons to grow soil sprouts!
Here are my most crucial reasons to grow in this way:
1. Hulls will fall off when the sprouts grow
One great thing in growing soil sprouts is that you do not need to wash the hulls from the sprouts. Hulls falls alone when the leaves grow and spread.
With jar farms, regardless of whether alfalfa or mung beans, laundry to separate hulls from sprouts is a tedious work. Heaven knows that I cleaned them enough.
There are tricks in trade, but generally it takes time to remove the hulls. No matter what you do, it looks like you can’t get rid of everyone. Staff mixed with greenery tend to augment the deterioration coefficient and can affect the taste of sprouts.
The hull soil with sprouts decreases when they grow and only require a minimum of washing. In some cases, you can get hulls that adhere to the seed leaf, but it is simple to pick up a few of them that remain, and this is nothing compared to the fact that all hulls mix with greenery.
2. You can store directly on a tray
When the soil sprouts are ready, they can be “stored” right next to their tray for several extra days. Only water once a day, and remain fresh and green until you are ready for harvest.
In fact, soil sprouts are still growing. Unlike a few days of storage, the tips of my bred jars begin to brown a little, and the hulls usually rot.
They have to enter the fridge, if I’m not ready to utilize them right away, and even then they need regular rinsing to stop them from corruption. And with coupled sprouts in the store, the roots are often brown and unpleasant.
3. Straightforward to care
For the first 4 days you do nothing with soil sprouts. They remain in the shadowy on the shelf or in the cabinet. After planting the seeds of soggy soil and soggy paper covers, they are ideal conditions for growing seeds, without watering at the initial stage.
The fifth day, when the cover falls off and the tray is in the airy, you only need to water once a day. It is much easier than rinsing two or three times a day with jars, baskets or bags.
4. Heartier Greens
If you miss watering, this is not a soil spurge; There is enough moisture in the soil to carry sprouts for one day. If you really break down and come back home to limply, utilize soil resuscitation – put the tray, put it in a plastic bag and place it in the fridge.
It works well – they will come back to life! Not with sprouts in a jar that quickly breaks down without regular patency; It is not to revive them.
5. Creates “Greenspace”
It is great to see the greens growing around the house and kitchen. Some seeds produce pink and purple stems and add a little life to the room. Sometimes I put trays in ceramic pots to be able to change the appearance of my salad garden.
Even in diminutive trays, the Greens are a welcome view and mix well with my wife’s home plants. In the middle of winter with growing greens and even flowering, they remind me that it is only icy for a while; Soon I will be outside again in the garden!
The same applies to the apartment and you do not have room for garden growing. Several trays of fresh greenery assist to meet the gardening need and provide green space into a residential atmosphere, while jars or sproter cannot offer an internal landscape.
The growing soil sprouts at home refreshes the air with oxygen, as do ordinary house plants. Can you ask for a better air freshener?
6. Visualize the collections
Another thing I like in fresh greenery trays is that I see what is ready for harvesting, facilitating the visualization of what is for dinner. I often choose the trays I collect when I water them before dinner.
With sprouts hidden in jars, bags and plastic trays, there is no simple way to see which of them are approaching.
7. Much faster and easier than microgrens
If you’ve ever grew up microgrens, you know they’re not ready in 7 days. If you are lucky and choose the right green varieties, you can collect them in about 21 days.
So when you can even eat microgrens, you have already collected soil sprouts three times and plant the fourth set of sprouts.
I believe that it is possible for a pound to collect greenery from just 1 square foot TAC every week. Compare this with the size of any greenhouse, icy frame or garden plot, and you will click the heels and sing the song.
Plus microgrens require the addition of airy to grow in the room; Without electric lights, the microgrene for cultivation becomes long and spolnic.
8. Basic than hydroponics
Everything that has a recirculation pump seems to me more a pool than a garden. Don’t get me wrong: I like a glass -glass and hydroponically grown tomatoes that I buy in the store in winter.
I am glad that someone has patience and a tendency to spoil the equipment. But when I look at the equipment and a list of ingredients in the cultivation medium, I know that I do not have time, space or patience to utilize this technique. Just give me seeds and soil, and I’m ready for the garden.
9. Great taste
The salad with all the soil is full of opulent flavors and textures. Green sunflower are crunchy and have a gentle nutty taste. Buckwheat lettuce has a fine consistency and a sweet and sour taste. Pea pea have a sweet taste of peas. Thinking about the whole salad with alfalfa is not so attractive or aromatic for me.
Although it is good and good for you, I guarantee that my children would look at me in the cross of my eyes if I tried to sell them as a salad!
10. More colors and textures
The glowing colors of soil sprouts create a pretty and stimulating salad mix. Lightweight red stem Hong Vit, purple Kohlrabi purple stalks, glowing -perforate white broccoli and sunflower, all combine in a salad bowl to the color festival.
Add cushioned pink, and sometimes deep red buckwheat and airy orange grated carrots – there is nothing similar to these salads.
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