How to Grow your own Wheatgrass
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For First Time Growers
- First purchase our wheatgrass starter
kit.
- Soak your seeds overnight (8-12 hours in mason jar or
large glass container, filling enough to totally submerge
the seed) 1 and 1/2 cup dry seed for small tray.
- After soaking, drain seed in your sprout bag and rinse
well. Put sprout bag with seed in colander or hang to drip.
Very important to rinse seed at least three times a day (you
can't over rinse), until a small tail appears. At this
point you can also eat the sprouts alone or sprinkle on your
salad or sandwich.
- Plant your seed on top of soil (basic potting soil or
top soil is fine). Spread evenly, one layer thick. Cover
seed with newspaper, or another tray for the first three or
four days until the grass starts to grow(the cover
represents the earth covering the seed).
- First three days, water heavy, until the tray starts to
drip. Gently at first so as not to disturb the seed. Mist
your seed to keep wet throughout the day and replace
cover.
- Uncover when the grass starts lifting the top tray off,
and grow in in-direct sunlight until you see the blades
split. Approximately 7-10 days in the summer and 10-14 days
in the winter. There is no set height for your grass, just
watch for the second shoot. Air circulation is important
under your tray as well as through your grass. Place near
window in summer or have a fan near the tray.
- Time to harvest. After you start seeing a split in the
grass, cut it with a sharp scissors right above the root. If
you'd like a second growth, you can grow it for the animals
in your house, but it is not as nutritious as the first. Cut
grass, stored in Evert Fresh bags, will last up to 14 days
in the refrigerator. Always store your cut grass in the
refrigerator.
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