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EVEC Microgreens
Category Crop Guides
The microgreens crop database — a growing guide for each species: how to grow it, days to harvest, difficulty, flavour and nutrition. From broccoli and radish to sunflower, basil, pea and amaranth.
Arugula (rocket) microgreens: everything you need to know to grow them
Arugula (rocket) microgreens are a fast, peppery brassica that needs no soaking and is ready to cut in about 8-12 days. Here is how to grow and use them.
Pea microgreens: everything you need to know to grow them
Pea microgreens are sweet, crunchy pea shoots that grow from soaked seed in about 10 to 12 days. Learn to soak, sow, weight, and harvest them at home.
Protein rich microgreens: pea, lentil, chickpea, and sunflower
Pea, lentil, chickpea and sunflower microgreens as a protein source — with the measured numbers, and an honest note on where the data are simply missing.
Barley microgreens
Barley microgreens: an easy-to-grow, lesser-known cereal crop that is not the same thing as barley grass. How to grow them, what the studies actually measured, and how they are used.
Nasturtium: a microgreen with great gastronomic potential
Nasturtium microgreens combine an intense, peppery flavour with a striking look. A microgreen with real gastronomic potential — its profile, uses and how to grow it.
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