- [Narrator] Wheat grass is extremely easy to grow.
It is loaded with vitamins and minerals
unlike anything else and has some very interesting
health benefits that you may not know about.
Let's look at growing wheat grass
and how you can supplement it
in your diet for a healthy life.
So one of my friends gifted me this container.
This is made of natural cedar wood,
and this is great for growing herbs
and microgreens like wheat grass.
For the potting mix, we are mixing
coco coir and you might have seen
my videos on coco coir,
it's very easy to just take a brick
and then it expands,
giving you some really good coco coir.
And we're gonna be first lining up
this container with a lot of coco coir,
and then we are gonna add some compost.
Now this is a compost that I usually use
for all my potting mixes.
This is composted horse manure,
and just a mix of compost and coco coir
is enough to give you a good potting mix.
Here is the seed packet that you're
gonna be using for our wheat grass seeds,
and it's a great quality wheat grass seed packet,
and all you're gonna do is sprinkle
the wheat grass seeds on top of
the potting mix we just created, as you can see here.
Now you don't want to crowd your seeds in one place,
but rather spread it out as much as you can,
and finally we're gonna be using
some more compost to just cover the seeds.
Now the reason we cover the seeds
is so that they do not fly away
and birds do not pick them out from the soil.
Once the seeds have been sown,
all you need to do is make sure
you have enough moisture for the seeds to germinate,
and we're gonna be using some water
to moisten the soil and we are good to go.
In about seven days from sowing the seeds,
you can see that the wheat grass seeds have germinated,
and let me just explain to you what wheat grass is.
Wheat grass is the baby wheat plant,
you can call it the baby wheat plant,
that hasn't produced wheat yet,
and it has all the goodness of wheat without the gluten.
So this is a pretty amazing microgreen.
You can grow it at your home.
It's extremely easy to grow,
and during the first few days or germination,
make sure that you keep your seedlings watered very well.
I'm just keeping this container
near a window which will get plenty of light,
and it's enough for these seeds to germinate and grow.
In about 15 days after sowing the seeds,
you can start harvesting your wheat grass.
You can let it grow even taller.
It will be quite some time before these plants mature,
so you can let them grow taller,
but I'm gonna start harvesting
my wheat grass greens at this stage.
These are loaded with vitamins and minerals.
Wheat grass has a lot of health benefits,
which I will soon explain.
And the first method to harvest
the wheat grass greens is to just pull them out.
Now the wheat grass has a very strong root system,
and you can see that I'm literally
breaking these grass seedlings.
The weed can also be seen here.
And to make the process easier,
you can just add some water to loosen up the soil,
and then you can easily pull out
these wheat grass seedlings.
Now this is one way to harvest it.
The downside of this kind of harvest
is that you lose the plant itself.
You just take the top part of the wheat grass
and then use it as you normally would.
But let me show you the second way
of harvesting it, which I found to be better,
and that is to just use some scissors
and clip the top part of the wheat grass.
Now the edible portion of this wheat grass
are the greens, and this is what you need to harvest.
Now the wheat grass looks just like
any other grass that grows around you.
However, it is very unique,
in the sense that it has a very high chlorophyll content,
which is very beneficial for you,
and it is also loaded with vitamins and minerals.
It also has antioxidant properties,
so overall it's extremely good for your health.
Wheat grass also lets your body
relieve itself of toxins.
It can even counter mutagenic cells,
cells that mutate, you know,
cells like cancer cells for example,
which wreak havoc on your body,
so wheat grass has a lot of health benefits,
and is something that I highly recommend
that you start consuming at least on a weekly basis.
If you can consume it daily, that's even better,
but at least on a weekly basis.
It's better to use wheat grass
to cleanse your body of toxins
and improve your overall health.
As you can see here, we are harvesting
all these wheat grass greens,
and this is the only part of the wheat grass
that you will be using.
So what is wheat grass?
Wheat grass is nothing but a baby wheat plant
that produces these greens that you can consume.
They are loaded with vitamins and minerals.
They have great health benefits.
They help improve the function of your organs,
and play a very important role in your overall health.
And as you can see here, this is the harvest,
our wheat grass greens harvest,
and what we are gonna be doing with this wheat grass
is we used a Blend Tech blender to crush the wheat grass,
we added some carrots, water, some ice, and wheat grass
to create this delicious wheat grass smoothie.
Now this smoothie has a lot of benefits of the wheat grass.
It has all the fiber.
It has all the nutrients.
The blender should be powerful enough
to crush the grass clippings or the grass leaves
to create a juice as you can see here,
and the Blend Tech does a great job.
Now once you've harvested your wheat grass,
the plants are still there.
The plants and the roots are still there.
So all you do is water the plant well,
and once you water the plant
and leave it out in the same location,
a nice, sunny location,
you can see that the wheat grass plant will regrow
and then you can continue your harvest for a second time.
And about 20 days from the time you sowed your seeds,
we can now have a second round of harvest.
You can see that the wheat grass has grown back,
the plant has produced more grass blades,
and these can be harvested again.
So for the second harvest you're gonna
be using the same technique.
We're gonna use some scissors and then clip
the top part of the wheat grass.
And we are in growing our wheat grass
in potting soil or real soil,
and I don't recommend growing wheat grass
using other techniques, like hydroponics
or, you know, soil-less mixes,
or like fiber or anything else,
and the reason is that when you grow in soil,
the wheat grass has excellent roots
to absorb all the nutrients from the soil
and all these nutrients from the soil
in turn gets into the wheat grass
and then eventually when you consume it,
it gets into your body.
So by growing wheat grass in the soil,
you can expect some useful elements
from the soil to be absorbed,
things like cellanium for example,
which is only found in soil,
will be absorbed by the wheat grass
when you grow it in soil.
And this is what our harvest looks like again,
very fresh, delicious, and organic
wheat grass greens that pack a punch.
And once again, you can leave the wheat grass as it is
and it will grow more greens in no time.
So there we have it, folks, that was
a new episode on growing wheat grass greens.
It's super easy to grow, and if you
grow wheat grass greens at home,
do let us know in the comment box below
and let us know how you use your wheat grass greens.
We'll see you again soon.
Happy gardening.