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How To Properly Care For Microgreens?

Posted on June 29, 2020

Microgreens are tiny, lettuce-sized plants. They are perfect for getting more vegetables into your diet; and if you have kids and pets, you will enjoy the healthy greens as snacks.

But if you are going to grow microgreens, you need to know a few things about them. Microgreens can be raised for a very long time; they can even be left to develop, without worrying about them dying. However, microgreens require you to harvest them, and because of that, you need to know some information on how to care for your microgreens.

Microgreens may be different from other plants in terms of their height and the way they grow. You will notice that they have a very short root system. It is necessary to cut them off to start with. As they are still small, you can just use scissors to cut them off.

How should you handle your microgreens when you harvest them? The main thing to remember is that you should wash them thoroughly before cooking or eating them. The roots need to be cleaned, and while you are doing this, you can use a small amount of water to soak the roots.

You should only use warm water when cleaning the roots. For easier cleaning, it would be better if you place the plants on a tray where you can slide in the soil from above. If you do not have this trait, you can use a cloth to carefully dip in the water.

After washing the roots, it is now time to start feeding your microgreens. With this, you should get them to take up nitrogen in the form of a fertilizer. This is important to prevent disease from occurring.

You can use a variety of fertilizers to help your microgreens grow. Fertilizers should be used as needed, according to how much light they get and whether or not they grow. You can even mix things such as Rosemary, mustard and oregano when dealing with microgreens.

The next thing to consider is what food you should feed your microgreens. Do microgreens regrow after cutting? Is the herb good to eat? When deciding what to feed your microgreens, you should first look at the nutritional content of the plants.

While deciding what food to feed your microgreens, you should first look at the nutritional content of the plants. There are lots of sources of nutrition in microgreens.

Know what is good for them, and know what is bad for them. The best source of nutrition is the leaf lettuce, spinach, romaine lettuce, dulse, and alfalfa sprouts. These will give the microgreens more nutrients than the other greens.

If you are growing microgreens for the purposes of selling them, then you need to make sure that they are happy and healthy so that they can be sold. When you know what to feed them, you can get the vegetables to sell, regardless of whether they grow or not. Knowing what to feed them is not hard to do if you know what to look for.

To grow microgreens, you need to know what they are like and how to care for them properly. Once you learn, you will be able to help your friends and family grow their own microgreens. You will also be able to feed them the healthy food that they want, instead of being limited to the same old lettuce or spinach that everyone else has.

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