Guest guest Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 Hi, Miss L, I grow pea shoots and sunflower sprouts is a mix of perlite and coco peat. I use two empty 8 oz mushroom containers. Put drain holes in one. This is your top tray. Mix together perlite and peat on a one to one ratio. You'll need about on cup of the mix. Dampen the mix an place about 2/3 rds into the bottom of the top tray. Spread on your seeds - a couple of tablespoons is good. Cover the seeds with the rest of the moistened mix and tamp down firmly. In the bottom tray, place something to keep the top tray from setting on the bottom of the bottom tray. You want them to drain. I use the lid of a milk jug. Set your seeds in a bright window - not direct sun. Keep them moist, but not wet. Don't overwater. Overwatering kills! When sunflower sprouts get as big as you want, cut them off and eat them. Sunflower seems to not all germinate at once, so you will keep getting sprouts for a long while. Pea shoots will continue to grow after they are cut, so you can get more than one harvest. If you feed pea shoots with diluted kelp after the first cutting, you can get as many as four harvests from one planting. Caution: do not fill your to container to the top. The seeds will displace the soil as they sprout, and you will have soil spilling all over. ew Vermiculite Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:56:12 -0000 has anyone tried to grow shoots , like snow pea, or anything else for that matter on Vermiculite inside trays? still searching Miss Lavande Sunshine makes the flowers dance. Anon. -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hello E. W. Thank you so very very much for this complete information I will get to work on it. I really want to grow shoots, they are so delicious and fresh. I found a grower at a new farmer's market this morning, which gave us a chance to taste a variety of sprouts . I am glad we did, my husband will not eat the radishes that I was going to buy. But some other greens are delicious, and I think I need to grow in a tray kind of thing to have them growing high enough, as we got used to eat them like this now. SO I will ask him to help me to figure all this out. Perfect! Thank you again for your kind help I am assuming we find this material at the sprout people website? Be well Miss Lavande > > Hi, Miss L, I grow pea shoots and sunflower sprouts is a mix of perlite > and coco peat. I use two empty 8 oz mushroom containers. Put drain holes > in one. This is your top tray. Mix together perlite and peat on a one to > one ratio. You'll need about on cup of the mix. Dampen the mix an place > about 2/3 rds into the bottom of the top tray. Spread on your seeds - a > couple of tablespoons is good. Cover the seeds with the rest of the > moistened mix and tamp down firmly. In the bottom tray, place something > to keep the top tray from setting on the bottom of the bottom tray. You > want them to drain. I use the lid of a milk jug. Set your seeds in a > bright window - not direct sun. Keep them moist, but not wet. Don't > overwater. Overwatering kills! When sunflower sprouts get as big as you > want, cut them off and eat them. Sunflower seems to not all germinate at > once, so you will keep getting sprouts for a long while. Pea shoots will > continue to grow after they are cut, so you can get more than one > harvest. If you feed pea shoots with diluted kelp after the first > cutting, you can get as many as four harvests from one planting. Caution: > do not fill your to container to the top. The seeds will displace the > soil as they sprout, and you will have soil spilling all over. > ew > > Vermiculite > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:56:12 -0000 > > has anyone tried to grow shoots , like snow pea, or anything else for > that matter on Vermiculite inside trays? > still searching > Miss Lavande > > > > > > Sunshine makes the flowers dance. > Anon. > > -- > Be Yourself @ mail.com! > Choose From 200+ Email Addresses > Get a Free Account at www.mail.com > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 the radish is very good - EW, from your experience, how do you think wheat grass would do in the perlite/peat mixture compared to vermiculite? Thanks in advance From: Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> Subject: Re: Vermiculite Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 8:48 AM Tell your husband he will love the radish sprouts from the seeds at . They are white radish seeds. Very yummy, not spicy like red radish. ew Vermiculite > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:56:12 -0000 > > has anyone tried to grow shoots , like snow pea, or anything else for > that matter on Vermiculite inside trays? > still searching > Miss Lavande > > > > > > Sunshine makes the flowers dance. > Anon. > > -- > Be Yourself @ mail.com! > Choose From 200+ Email Addresses > Get a Free Account at www.mail.com > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Pete, the wheat grass would do very well, but you would need a larger growing container. I have a friend in the Lompoc area that grows his in regular nursery flats. He puts newspaper on the bottom and the mix on top and scatters the seeds and just barely covers them. Its important to firm down the soil and keep moist. The medium (mix) has no food value, so you're only going to get a couple of cuttings. The good news is that you can dump it all into your composter. ew Vermiculite > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:56:12 -0000 > > has anyone tried to grow shoots , like snow pea, or anything else for > that matter on Vermiculite inside trays? > still searching > Miss Lavande > > > > > > Sunshine makes the flowers dance. > Anon. > > -- > Be Yourself @ mail.com! > Choose From 200+ Email Addresses > Get a Free Account at www.mail.com > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 I find diakon (white) radish sprouts to be very spicy, and unpleasant to eat. But I solved my problem of what to do with the seeds, by adding them to my brown rice before steaming (1/4 cup daikon seeds to 1 cup brown rice). Makes for some really yummy rice. I got the idea from a packaged product which contained brown rice, daikon seeds, and black barley. :~) Thia On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...>wrote: Tell your husband he will love the radish sprouts from the seeds at . They are white radish seeds. Very yummy, not spicy like red radish. ew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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