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EVEC Microgreens
Category Grow at Home
Learn to grow microgreens at home — step-by-step guides on seeds, trays, light, watering, harvesting and troubleshooting for beginners and hobby growers.
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.
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.
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.
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