Thursday 3 September 2015

An indoor allotment

A bit about sprouts in no particular order

SeedStarting weight g.Final weight g.Juice g.Thoughts
alfalfa 110100-Blimey, it used to be cattle feed. Nice and crispy
alfalfa 21063-Fresh and very crispy, poor yield though
clover10Milder than alfalfa
lentils10Alright but not a favourite
mung 145260Classic beansprout, grows very quickly. These were overgrown, took ages to pull the roots off, crisp and very peaey though
mung 1-8854Tiny yield, disgusting colour
mung 246 dry
103 wet
131Don't grow for too long and they're triffic
wheat 1304644Amazing yield, lovely green, tastes foul, needs blending with other juice, apparently it's good for me
wheat 2304032Marvelous stuff, I'm getting younger by the day

The seeds are first soaked for 12-24 hours
Wheatgrass is grown in one of these plastic boxes. The bottom is stabbed to form drainage holes and then put inside another one. The bottom of the top box is lined with kitchen paper, the seeds are placed on the paper and sprayed with water a few times a day for a week or so. It's then mown with scissors and watered again for another week for the second crop
This is the juice and it tastes much worse than it looks


Other seeds are grown in this


Alfalfa after a couple of days
   
and after a couple more they're ready

The mung beans start like this

and a few days later look like this
Here're some more, before and after, alfalfa and lentils

You can eat the sprouts straight away if you like but I prefer to wash most of the hulls/ husks off first.
For alfalfa, quickest way I've found is to put them in a salad spinner basket, fill with water, keep the tap running, agitate the sprouts and the hulls/ husks will float to the top and go over the rim. Then drain, spin, store in the fridge.
For beansprouts don't bother and eat the lot.

Juicing was done by an Oscar Neo, it's a single auger masticating design in a delightful metallic red


Today's crop

The end

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