a new way of growing microgreens that's both easy
and rewarding let's look at growing microgreens
so we're using three aluminum trays each for growing each set of microgreens
now these are easily available at costco at a very
decent price but you can find them at any grocery stores or
any other store that sells baking materials and i'll explain you what each
of these trays is used for let's take one tray and drill some holes
this will be the tray where we will be planting our microgreens
and they need drainage and here's the material we need to use for our growing
medium we'll be using coco coir we need to use
fine coco coir we got our coco coir from VermisTerra
you can easily get this coco coir online or at your local gardening stores and
remember that we are not adding our coco coir directly to the
growing tray rather we are measuring it out and i'll shortly explain you why
and we pre-soaked the seeds for about four to six hours these are fenugreek
seeds but you can pre-soak any seed that you
want to plant and now we start assembling the tiers
and this is our growing tier there's a bottom tier that will be used to
water the microgreens and drain excess water
we have the growing tier which is the central tier
and on top of that our new method also uses a third tier which we'll get to
shortly now we add the coco coir to the central
tier the second tray of the microgreens that we're
using and you can get this coco coir at VermisTerra.com
use coupon code cag for getting 10 percent off your order
this is a great quality growing medium for microgreens
and you can then add vermicompost now earthworm castings provide
very good nutrition to your plants now technically micro greens do not need any
kind of nutrition but you'll shortly see why we are adding
the worm castings and that is if you want to go a step further
and grow your plants slightly larger than microgreens
then these earthworm castings play a very important role
in providing nutrition to your microgreens so that they grow larger
once again these earthworm castings are from VermisTerra you can go to
VermisTerra.com and use coupon code cag to get 10 percent
off your entire order and you can create your own earthworm castings at home if
you have a worm farm at home but in this
case we are using the worm castings from VermisTerra
now these are the seeds that we had soaked we are adding them
all around our growing medium
and you don't have to be very specific but you need to
scatter the seeds evenly around the surface
and these microgreens will be growing quite close to each other
and that's just the nature of how micro greens grow so make sure you spread the
seeds evenly around so that your microgreens can grow easily
and we then just spray some water on the surface
of the seeds now this is important in the first couple of days
just because you need adequate moisture for the seeds to germinate properly
and this new method also involves a third tray
as you can see and this third tray will be used on top
of the second tray and what we'll be doing is applying some pressure using
some pavers and while it looks a little harsh this
weight this added weight will not only disperse the seeds equally
around the growing medium but also result in very good quality
microgreens and now let's look at the progress our micro greens have made
starting with the fenugreek microgreens and we'll shortly show you how the pea
micro greens grew later as well so the pavers need to be intact for
about two days this is what we have done here
and once you remove the pavers the weight has now distributed all the micro
green seeds around the surface and as you can see
some have started germinating and the ones that are stuck to the top
part of the aluminum tray the base of the first tier
can be just dropped down into the growing area and make sure that you
mist very well these micro greens in the initial stage
need a lot of water the seeds need a lot of water to germinate
to make sure that you have adequate moisture just use this kind of a misting
bottle and apply evenly so that the entire area is misted well
and also starting the second day you can make
sure that the bottom part of the microgreens growing tray is evenly
moist by adding a bottle of water to the bottom tray this is our watering
tray and by mostly using the third tray to
water we will be avoiding mold growth in these micro greens now three
days since sowing you can see that the plants have now started growing the
seedlings have started growing and we need to water the bottom tray
once again this is to avoid growth of any mold or
bacteria in the top tray and we need to repeat
watering your microgreens in the bottom tray every day
now the micro greens will start looking more green and more healthy
as days go by and each day you can see that they're becoming more and more
nicer looking thicker looking
and they will also start consuming more water as they become large
so make sure that you're adding more and more water onto the bottom tray
and keep checking the bottom tray to make sure that the water has been
absorbed and if you see all the water has been
sucked in by the microgreens that are growing
then just add in some more water
now each microgreen has its own nutrition value
and most microgreens can be harvested within about 7 to 15 days
of growing in this case the fenugreek microgreens take about
15 days to grow whereas some microgreens like radish micro greens
will give you microgreens within about seven days or so
now here you can see it's been eight days since we sowed the seeds
and they're looking very nice all the microgreens are looking very nice
and they're almost looking like they're exploding with growth in this growing
tray and once again as days go by you need to
keep checking the moisture level for these plants
and make sure that you are adding enough water in the bottom watering tray
and the seeds itself will have a lot of nutrition to grow
to this stage and as i mentioned if you want to use these as microgreens
alone you can start harvesting them in about 14 to 15 days as you see here at
this stage the plant has now grown quite large
so you can harvest it at this time to use them as microgreens
but we're going to take it a step further we're going to see how you can
grow these microgreens a little bit more to harvest slightly larger plants
and once again microgreens are just smaller versions of the same plants that
grow larger you can see some roots here at the
bottom they do suck in a lot of water so make sure that you keep the bottom
tray nicely watered so we took it a step further and we
waited for 25 days to make sure that the microgreens grew
a little larger and once again we could have harvested
these as micro greens at 15 days but we waited a little longer for this
to grow a little taller and at 30 days finally we are now
harvesting our microgreens so the choice is yours you can either
wait for 15 days and harvest these as fenugreek micro greens or
wait for another 15 days let these grow a little larger
so that you can get more greens so what you want to do is entirely up to you
your objective your goal is entirely up to your growing needs
but if i was growing some other microgreens like radish or
lettuce or any other microgreen like broccoli microgreens for example
then i would be harvesting this earlier especially if i was eating it raw
as you can see we are harvesting our fenugreek
greens here and they look amazing and fenugreek has a lot of health
benefits it's used in a lot of dishes that
we cook and i've also posted some recipe videos earlier
and i'll also show you a quick recipe that we use these fenugreek greens for
and they're absolutely loaded with vitamins and minerals and a lot of
nutrition and after harvesting all the greens this
is how our fenugreek greens look like slightly larger than the micro greens
but also very delicious quite loaded with flavor
and this is how you go from a micro green to greens
which is exactly the same plant so what did we do with the harvest
we mixed it up with some flour and we made
methi puris the same recipe that i showed you in the previous episode the
monthly episode where we roll it up into a dough with
wheat and some spices and then
make small rolls of the fenugreek and the flour together and then roll it
up into a tortilla kind of shape and eventually
we fry them to get these delicious methi puris
and these are absolutely delicious and you can eat them with yogurt you can eat
them with ketchup and they taste just absolutely amazing
even just by itself the methi puris tastes amazing this is
how it looks like after it's made and as i mentioned you can eat these
fenugreek greens puris with either yogurt or ketchup and they
taste amazing and now let's look at pea microgreens this
was the other microgreens that we were growing
right next to the fenugreek micro greens and the planting method is the same
we are using three aluminum trays one for
the base for the water and one the growing medium in the center which is a
mix of coco coir and worm castings
and we're just spreading out our peas all around the growing area
this has been pre-soaked for a few hours and then we are lightly
misting the top so that the seeds have adequate moisture to grow
finally we cover it up with the top layer the top aluminum tray
and add some weight and this weight will help the pea
seeds settle down all around the container the growing container
and 15 days later our microgreens are ready we will just harvest the pea
microgreens just like you see here so the peas have grown nice and bushy
and as you can see it got pretty windy so we had to continue harvesting our
microgreens inside the home on this day and i love pea microgreens
they just take a very short time to grow they are absolutely delicious eaten raw
we mostly eat our pea microgreens raw and they have just
this amazing flavor exactly like peas pea microgreens tastes very much like
snap peas or just peas when you eat them and they're so easy to
grow they require absolutely no added
nutrition in the growing medium as you saw we just used coco coir and
earthworm castings which was enough nutrition for them to grow
to this size very easily and they not only look amazing they
taste absolutely amazing too so pea micro greens is another micro green
that i would highly recommend that you try growing
at home we put them in ziploc bags for storage
in case we are not able to consume them completely
and as you can see just one tray just one aluminum tray
will yield us a lot of micro greens now some people like to grow this in
plastic as well which is perfectly fine i just think that food grade aluminum
trays like these are much better medium to grow
microgreens because people bake in this people eat
out of these containers so growing them is relatively safe compared to plastic
and this is how our micro greens harvest looks like it looks amazing
and what did we do with the harvest let's show you how we used our pea
microgreens so the first thing we did is we chopped them up
into smaller pieces the pea microgreens are
a very interesting shape but we cut the micro greens into smaller pieces
and these smell amazing when you're cutting them too
these pea micro greens are one of the most fragrant and or the most nice smelling
micro greens that i've ever used
and most of the micro greens smell just like their actual plant like
radish micro greens would smell like radish and so on
and we are now adding all the other vegetables and making a
pea microgreen salad and as you can see we have added cucumbers carrots spinach
to our pea micro greens
and we are now squeezing some lemon on top of it and you don't really need any
dressing for your salad just lemon and olive oil is something that we
always use and it does a great job of giving a very
good flavor to your salad so add some olive oil on top and just
mix in the pea micro greens as well as all the other
vegetables to create a beautiful looking salad and
you can add some himalayan salt i love to add himalayan salt compared to
the white salt just because the himalayan salt also has
a lot of vitamins and minerals that you can add to your micro green
salad so there we have it folks that was our episode on growing microgreens
and continuing to use the microgreens to grow larger plants as well
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