Vitamins year round. Why grow herbs at home just before cotyledon leaves?

The idea is simple - growing plants just before cotyledon leaves (mikrozeleni) and eating them fresh. As a result, the body is saturated with beneficial vitamins, various trace elements, organic acids without any cost! This idea is already well used in Western European countries. People engaged in the business of growing such herbs.

Which plants are suitable

As the cultivation of crops used for many plants cotyledon leaves. This green peas, beans, sunflower, amaranth, beet, mustard, sesame, cereals (rye, oats, wheat, barley), salads, lentils, cabbage, buckwheat, basil etc.

Seeds of beans and various melons are not suitable for these purposes because they containkukurbitatsin poison. Sprouts of these seeds and you will not be there because of the bitterness.

What's the point

The content of nutrients in the seeds is high. Seed stores specifically different substances in order to give all the necessary seedlings. Therefore seedlings saturated very different micronutrients, organic acids and vitamins. And these plants can be grown all year round on the windowsill, and even the lighting is not needed. The essence of this method lies not in getting a strong seedlings, a simple ordinary seedlings, seedlings.

For food is only going to the aerial part, roots are not required. Greens are grown 10-15 days, and then used in the food until it soft and sweet. Then grow new plants, the end of the tender grass. To be constantly mikrozelen in your diet, you need not wait until all eat the sprouts and planting new seeds for food.

How to use

Mikrozelen is cut with scissors at the base, is washed, and then added to salads, sandwiches or used in its natural form.

Seeds better collect your from the garden, because they are not treated with chemicals. Or to look for special packages in the store, where it is written "On mikrozelen".

I drop to mikrozelen amaranth, seeds he gets the autumnvery much, so I use them for germination and further use of germs in food. Especially these seeds have a big rock storage.

How to sow seeds

There is nothing complicated, sow as conventional seeds. Before planting, soak them desirable, especially when it relates to the seeds of peas, beets, sunflowers, to get faster delicious sprouts.

Use moist soil for germination substrate. Seeds unpack densely and fall asleep soil substrate layer 1 cm after planting (if the seeds are large, and in the case of small seed layer do much smaller sow or just surfactants, such as, for example, seed amaranth). Then compacted and moisturize with the sprayer. Cover with foil to condensation.

Grow different mikrozelen on the windowsill for your health. You'll like it!

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