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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.
Wheatgrass Microgreens – the potential of tiny greens
Wheatgrass has a bigger medicinal reputation than its evidence supports. What the composition data show, what the "green blood" claim gets wrong, and why none of it is a treatment.
The most exotic microgreens: shiso, mizuna, and tatsoi
Shiso, mizuna and tatsoi microgreens: flavour, kitchen uses, three recipes, and what the published composition data does and does not cover for each crop.
Broccoli microgreens: everything you need to know to grow them
How to grow broccoli microgreens at home: soaking, sowing, light, watering and days to harvest — plus the practical tips we learned growing them in our own trays.
Chia microgreens: where the viral “17 times more nutrients” claim comes from
A nutritionist's viral claim that chia microgreens carry far more nutrients than chia seeds — where those figures actually come from, why we could not verify them, and how to grow the crop at home.
Radish microgreens: everything you need to know to grow them
Radish microgreens are the fastest and easiest to grow. Step by step: sowing, light, watering and days to harvest, plus their fresh, slightly spicy flavour.
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