Microgreens

Microgreens – You’ve likely seen them, but what makes them good for you? Join Extension Master Gardener Becky Halbe to learn their many benefits and some simple ways to grow these delicious, nutritious, and inexpensive baby plants and sprouts in your own home.

Zoom session, January 8, 2021

Video of Presentation

Additional Resources

Microgreens Class Handout – pdf

Microgreens seen in presentation  – Photos © Becky Halbe

Sow microgreen seeds heavily – like a toddler putting sprinkles on a frosted cupcake.

This is a repurposed quart- sized clamshell with holes. You can see part of the coffee filter used as a liner. This lets water through, but keeps soilless mix in place. These are peas, started a week earlier.

Another repurposed pint-sized clamshell, soilless mix, coffee filter. Radishes are one of my favorite microgreens- nice spicy flavor, and they grow very quickly! 1 week old, but of harvestable size a couple days earlier. If you like radishes, give these a try.

This is a repurposed pint-sized clamshell w holes so coffee filter is in place. Broccoli microgreens are one week old.

Another of my personal favorite microgreens. If you like the taste of hulled sunflower seeds, you will love these. 1 week old in repurposed pint-sized clamshell w soilless mix, coffee filter. Note some have black tips. That’s just the seed hull, that is easy to remove.

Three different “crops” on one piece of coconut coir. Done for demonstration purposes to show how different seeds grow at different rates, and how growing rates can vary depending on growing medium used.

Sprouts as opposed to microgreens. Careful sanitation (clean glass containers) and twice daily rinsing make sprouts just a bit trickier to grow safely than microgreens. Those sprout screw-on lids date back to the 70s- yes, I’m old!- but you can always use cheesecloth or old clean pantyhose. Alfalfa on the left, mung beans on the right.