Exhale today, eat hearty tomorrow
If you are ready to start growing your own food, but you are not ready for something that requires a lot of commitment or a lot of effort, it is a good place to start. The sprouts are simple to grow, ripens very quickly, can be used in various delicious dishes and really pack a nourishing blow.
Below is a fragment Fresh food from tiny spaces: a square-inch gardener guide for year-round cultivation, fermentation and germination Author: RJ Ruppenthal. Has been adapted to the network.
I have a confession to do. At the beginning of the book, I say that the city’s inhabitants with an average size of an apartment or condominium can collect up to 10 to 20 percent of their own fresh food. I admit it was a lie. You can actually even higher The percentage of your own fresh food, depending on the percentage of the diet, can consist of fresh sprouts! There is an ancient saying that “man is dead by bread.” This is probably also in the case of sprouts, especially considering that you will get tired of only the eating sprouts day by day (although nutritional, you can meet most of your dietary needs). I mean: if you want to grow enough sprouts to live by using space in your apartment or apartment, you can probably do it. There is simply no other food that can be produced so much in such a tiny space, so quickly and with such sturdy nutritional production. In the case of sprouts, the limiting factor is not space, delicate, soil and even water. The limiting factor is: how many sprouts can you really eat?
How challenging is germination and how much time does it take?
The sprouts can grow without soil or delicate, and will be ready within 4 to 10 days, depending on the type of seeds. Basically, the process itself is very rapid and you can produce fresh vegetables in just days instead of months. As for the time commitment, it will require a few minutes a day to rinse the sprouts to prevent mold.
If you decide to invest in an automatic germination system, it will keep well rinsed sprouts; You just need to change the water every day to remain fresh. Homemade germination in your own controlled environment avoids the risk of pollution associated with the sausage market.
When it comes to equipment, you can start with what you have at home or buy a more specialized germination device. To utilize easily available materials and save money, you can start with a glass jar or a plastic seedling tray. A fabric bag, which is saturated, hot and filled with bean seeds, can also work if you rinse it regularly. Regardless of what type of equipment you utilize, all this should be well washed earlier and you should plan to rinse the sprouts about three times a day as it increases. (It will take less than one minute each time.)
A glass jar is by far the easiest way to experiment with seed germination.
To grow in a glass jar, you need to cover it with something that the seeds can stop while rinsing them. The screen held with an elastic band should work well. First place a handful of seeds you want to grow (alfalfa, mung beans, etc.) at the bottom of the jar. Fill the jar partly with chilly water and allow the seeds to soak for about 8 hours. Then pour the water through the screen and fill it with enough water to rinse the seeds. Repeat the rinsing part again and try to drain as much water as possible. Leave seeds to grow and come back to rinse them in this way about three times a day. In just a few days you should have delicious sprouts!
Growing on the seedling requires the utilize of a kind of cultivation that imitates the soil. In fact, there is no rule against the utilize of soil itself, which can provide both support and a bit of nutrition of sprouts. Stick to sterilized soil or put a little into a microwave and cook at high power for two minutes to kill pathogens. Other sloppy germination media can be perlite or vermiculite without asbestos, which can be available at the local gardening center.
Theoretically, you can utilize a saturated paper towel or sponge as a base, but the sprouts will not be able to get any grip in this way, and therefore they will be very faint.
Finally, it is helpful to cover the tray with something that can be another plastic tray or chopping board – everything that can assist desiccated. Otherwise, follow the same basic instructions as a glass jar for soaking and rinsing. You can also rinse the seedlings with seedlings, spraying them regularly with a spray bottle and dropping excess water from the edge. Drawing wheat, which takes a few days longer than eating sprouts, will require additional nutrition to boost to full potential. The best -growing supplement of any of these methods is seaweed extract. Dilute it to very low strength and spray the sprouts to boost their growth rate and nutritional value.
What can you grow into sprouts?
Here is an incomplete list.
Grains: wheat, barley, rye, popcorn, quinoa and others.
Climbing: lentils, peas, azuki beans, black beans, Garbanzo beans, mung beans, soy and others.
Greens: alfalfa, broccoli, clover, rape, radish, buckwheat, sunflower and more.
Other: some people grow nuts such as almonds and peanuts, micro-green, such as lettuce and rocket, and plants with stronger flavors such as fenugreek and onion.
You can order seeds online from the sources of growing seeds or just try happiness in the mass section of a local health food store. You can mix seeds, but it is usually better to start with separate amounts of each type of seeds you want to grow, because some last longer than others.
Make sure the seeds are ecological or at least untreated. If you order online seeds, look for those that are specially marked as “seed growing”. They should be fresh and have been tested for high germination; They are not always the same seeds that would grow immense plants in your garden.
Several high -quality online sellers are people of profit, with a wealth of information on their website; Mumm growing seeds; Sun seeds; and wheat grass sets. Also try the mass section of the local health food store; You can be lucky and find good, fresh seeds. In this way, I found my best germinating soy, which was much more productive to me than any soy I ordered online.