Microgreens on Cheesecloth 2/4/22

I'm just putting all the used AG water down the toilet now. My bathroom sink has a small-diameter pipe that catches everything. Finding the sprouts made me think about crocodiles in the sewers, though!

Will do!

The knock on hydroponic microgreens is lack of flavor. Mine are kind of flavorless, even when I add the optional nutrients.

I'm hoping to find a way to improve the flavor. I'm continuing to grow them because I don't eat enough veggies. Microgreens grow fast and I love them in sandwiches.

I've tried the AG Spicy and the AG Supergreens. Spicy has more flavor than Supergreens. With age I have fewer taste buds than I used to, of course.

I'm pretty much sold on using cheesecloth as a base for AG microgreens. The tiny red amaranth seeds have really taken hold, and have roots extending down through the cheesecloth. The microgreens have formed a solid mat, and can probably be harvested any time now (5th day).

The Rainbow Sprinkles (beets and Swiss chard) are slower to germinate, but they are coming along. One of the Swiss chard pods in a fairly new Bounty garden turned out to be a dud, so I took three of the "Sprinkles" and put them in the pod. They're growing!

Now I'm thinking that the Harvest Microgreens insert may be just the thing for starting hard-to-germinate seeds like spinach. With the paper towel method, only one of about a dozen of my spinach seeds germinated.

I tried placing about half a dozen spinach seeds in the upper left corner of the Rainbow Sprinkles tray. With luck, the spinach seeds will germinate.