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List of Microgreens you can grow easily at your home

 List of Microgreens you can grow easily at your home

List of Microgreens you can grow easily at your home


List of Microgreens you can grow easily at your home


  • Amarnath, Beetroot, Quinoa, Chard, and Spinach. These all come in the group of Amaranthaceae.

  • Chives, Onions, Leeks, and Garlic. These all come in the group of Amaryllidaceae.

  • ​carrots, dill, celery, and fennel. These all come in the group of Apiaceae

  • Endive, lettuce, chicory, and radicchio. these all come in the group of Asteraceae.

  • Arugula, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, radish, and watercress. These all come in the group of Brassicaceae.

  • Cucumbers, melons, and squashes. These all come in the group of Cucurbitaceae.

  • Herbs such as basil, mint, sage, oregano, and rosemary. These all come in the group of Lamiaceae.

  • Grasses and cereals such as corn, oats, white grass, and barley. It includes legumes, beans, lentils and chickpeas. These all come in the group of Poaceae.
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Miraculous benefits of Microgreens,

7 Miraculous benefits of Microgreens

7 Miraculous benefits of Microgreens



Microgreens are packed with high nutrients. These are  great sources of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Researches have proven that these baby plants contain 40 times more nutrients than matured plants. For your optimal health few serving of Microgreen in your diet is enough.

Microgreens are all round season growing plants. This means it doesn’t need specific season to wait to cultivate. In any season you can start to grow Microgreens.
   

Miraculous benefits of Microgreens

Reduce Hear attack risks

Lowers Cholesterol

Helps in digestive ailments

Reduce Constipation

Improve eyesight
  

Immunity boost.
Fight cancer
Weight Management
Control Alzheimers

Reduce Chronic Disease Risks.

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How to grow healthy Microgreen at your home easily?

How to grow healthy Microgreen at your home easily?


You can grow either in soil or even without soil also. Both methods I will introduce here. 

Other than soil you can grow your healthy microgreen on normal tissue paper, cotton cloth, sack, coconut shell fiber, or even without any of these, just any kind of strainer is enough. 

All the methods you will get to know here in my blog with proof of healthy microgreen.

Try all types of seeds or any vegetables in this method. You will get a successful result. 

In a small scale business field, farming of Microgreen is a very profitable one. As the cost of business is low, but gaining is great.

Here comes the next method without Soil.

Required items for microgreen growing are –

  • Any kind of pot or any plastic trays that is 4-5 inches deep or empty containers comes with food. 
  • Tissue paper or cotton cloth, even coconut fibers also can be used. 
  • Enough sunlight: Essential amount of Sunlight at least 3-4 hours a day. A great place for your microgreens will be windowsill or balcony where sunlight enters.

  • Enough water watering needed care, soil or any other bases should be moist all the time. but should not be exceeded. A hand sprinkling way is enough to water. Preferably use mineral water, avoid chemical contained water.

Steps by step of Growing your organic microgreen in Tissu paper / Cloth.


Make ready overnight soaked seeds for healthy microgreen. 


Take the tray in which you are supposed to grow your microgreen. Tissue Paper, cloth, sack, or even newspaper piece lay inside the tray. 



Do Sprinkle ( use your hand to sprinkle) bit water into it. Take attention not to pour excess water.


The tray is ready to spread your soaked healthy seeds on the surface. There is no need to take attention to keep distance between seeds as microgreen we won’t let grow more than 14 days.  Harvesting period max 12 -14 days.


  • Germination period of two days, make sure you keep the pots / tray at room temperature. Once germination starts you can shift the tray / pot to the convenient place where enough sunlight receives. In a day 3-4 hours of sunlight is enough.

  • Twice a day remember to sprinkle water over the sprout. In another 3-4 days, tiny leaves start to come out from the seeds.

  • Just a week you will be thrilled to found your tray/pot full of healthy microgreen ready to welcome you. In 2-3 inches taller it is ready for harvesting. For more longer, you have to wait for more days. But I suggest you not to let grow much, as its high nutrition will be present in this 12-14 days stage.

Harvesting

  • Harvesting Microgreen is quite an easy task. Holding the plants, vertically cut with sharp knife or scissors from just above the roots. Feel the enjoyment on the harvesting of your own organic Microgreen.😍
  • In normal water just wash them, your Organic Microgreen ready to make your cuisine healthy.

  •  You can use it fresh from the plant or can use later by keeping by wrapping in a paper and store in cool dark place. 
  • Hope you all enjoyed reading the knowledge of Microgreen. Once you start growing, you will be curious to try this method on more seeds or veggies. Simply cook the leaves per your tastes and methods.
How can Microgreens consume?

  • Use in salads, smoothies, or sandwiches. In Indian way of cooking, you can add onion, chillis, and sauté slightly in less oil, and can consume. In other way add in dal and cook, or add some potatoes pieces and sauté with these healthy leaves.





By leenasujit, ago

What is Microgreen? How to grow microgreen at your home?

What is MicroGreen? 




MicroGreen, the meaning is hidden itself in the word, nothing else but miniature plants, herbs, or other vegetables. The first leaves come out from the sprout of seeds and vegetables 2-3 inch height, this is called Microgreen. 



These tiny plants contain a higher amount of vitamins and carotenoids. Nowadays it took a great level of the nutritional power distributor and immunity booster. Microgreens harvesting period is 12 to 14 days. In this stage, it will reach its height of fully nutritious and perfect with its aroma to be ready to consume.

In India Microgreen becoming popular and started part of our daily diet. 

The healthy consciousness keeping in mind Indian Gourmet-Cuisine restaurants in metro cities started serving microgreen in salads, appetizers, sandwiches, desserts, mocktails.

Microgreen 😊planation at home is so cheap and easy procedure. In any type of house, those who have no facility for outdoor plantation too can grow. It doesn’t need direct sunlight. Just with fewer utilities, you can create Microgreen at your indoor.


You can grow any kind of seeds like grams, chickpeas, peas, pulses, wheat as well as vegetables like turnips, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, celery, chard, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, beets, parsley, and basil can be grown as a microgreen. For your daily meals, you can utilize these all if you grow from time to time.


By growing microgreen at your home, you can be an assurance to eat without fear 😊of pesticides or insecticides. This means you are creating your own organic microgreen.  By doing this you have many benefits, good health as well as mental happiness. 

Make your kids engage in growing microgreens. Let them know the enjoyment and benefits of cultivation. 

Attraction to grow microgreen indoors increased due to the following reasons

  • Easy to grow
  • Quick to harvest
  • Flavour full
  • Loaded with high nutrients


How to grow microgreen at your home?


You can grow either in soil or even without soil also. Both methods I will introduce here.

Required items for microgreen growing are –

  • Any kind of pot or any plastic trays that is 4-5 inches deep or empty containers comes with food. 

  • Soil / Tissue paper or cotton cloth, even coconut fibers also can be used. 

  • Enough sunlight: Essential amount of Sunlight at least 3-4 hours a day. A great place for your microgreens will be windowsill or balcony where sunlight enters.

  • Enough water watering needed care, soil or any other bases should be moist all the time. but should not be exceeded. A hand sprinkling way is enough to water. Preferably use mineral water, avoid chemical contained water.

Steps by step of  growing your organic microgreen in Soil
Soil Method

  • Fill the tray/container with 3-4 inches of height soil. This much height soil is more than enough for the microgreen to survive.


  • Once the soil prepared,  organic seeds ready to spread ( for healthy microgreen overnight soaked seed is preferable) you can spread with your hands as space not necessary for the microgreen.

  • On the spread seed put a thin layer of soil and gently pat the area.

  • Damp the soil with water. Just sprinkling with the sprayer is enough, take care not to put excess water.

  • The first two days keep at room temperature until germination begins. Afterward place the pot to a sunny area, 3-4 hours of sunlight a day is enough.

  • Water just sprinkle over the sprout twice a day. Within 3-4 days period, small leaves will start to come out from the soil.



  • In a week, the surprise will start, your container full of healthy microgreen ready to welcome you. When it reaches 2-3 inches taller it is ready to be cut. If you prefer a bit more longer, you can wait for more days.

  • Microgreen harvesting is quite a hurdled free task. Holding them vertically cut the microgreen with sharp knife or scissors from just above the roots.
  • Wash them with normal water and these tiny nutritious leaves are ready to enhance your food. Use it fresh or store them in a paper wrap, refrigerate for next use.

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By leenasujit, ago

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Organic Seeds for Farming

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The seed is time and again neglected as a basic bit of our nourishment and farming frameworks. However, this modest asset impact affects how we ranch and what we eat. At the point when ranchers plant their seed each spring, they depend on the hereditary qualities contained inside to help guard those plants against bugs and infections and to withstand weeds and climate. Indeed, natural ranchers depend on seed adjusted to their particular homestead conditions and atmospheres more than different ranchers since they don’t utilize engineered pesticides and manures. 

Seed additionally to a great extent directs the nature of our nourishment – from appearance to flavor to wholesome substance. Right now, it holds the interminable potential for changing our nourishment framework, particularly when combined with the rules that manufactured the natural development – the standards of well-being, biology, and reasonableness. 

Presently, the prevailing seed framework is constrained by a bunch of substance and biotechnology organizations with no real enthusiasm for the accomplishment of natural farming. These players misuse licensed innovation rights and furiously ensure them. They demoralize ranchers from taking an interest in research and seed sparing. What’s more, over and over again they put investor premiums before those of the more noteworthy open. 

The natural network has a chance to make a way for the natural seed that is exceptionally unmistakable from the prevailing seed framework. By building up a mutual vision and guide for creating natural seed frameworks, we can maintain a strategic distance from the negative patterns found in the regular seed part while conveying top-notch natural seed for all districts, crop types, and ranch scales. Natural Seed Alliance’s State of Organic Seed venture helps screen the advancement we’re making in accomplishing this objective. 

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Interest for natural nourishment is just developing, with deals topping $39 billion of every 2015 (a 11% expansion contrasted with 2014). Natural ranchers are required to utilize natural seed except if it’s industrially inaccessible. The natural seed industry was nearly non-existent when the government natural measures became effective in 2002. As the State of Organic Seed, 2016 shows, the natural seed supply isn’t staying aware of more extensive natural industry development, as most natural ranchers despite everything depend on ordinary (non-natural) seed for at any rate some portion of their activities. 

Fortunately, we’re seeing improvement in expanding the accessibility, quality, and honesty of natural seed accessible. (See Key Findings.) 

As significant are the numerous advantages natural seed gives — benefits that work out in a good way past helping natural ranchers meet an administrative necessity.

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