alright, this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com.today i have another exciting episode for you. i'm glad to be sharing this with you.i'm actually on a field trip; i'm here in a business park in front of a warehouse building,and what we're going to do today is were going to go into this place right here. it's actuallycalled 'urban hydro greens, your local hydroponic farm.' so what they're doing here inside thiswarehouse building is growing the most nutrient dense food in all of las vegas. they're growinglittle microgreens, and if they can grow microgreens in a warehouse, you can surely do it in yourhome, but just think about the application of microgreens. they can grow microgreensin skyscrapers! i mean, wherever there's some light, you can grow some microgreens, andtoday we're going to show you exactly how
they do it here and actually share with youguys how you can grow it at home as well. so, let's head in to urban hydro greens andshow you guys how they're growin'. so, now we're inside the urban hydro greens and we'regoing to check out their warehouse, which is where they're growing all the microgreens.i mean, this is a production facility. they produce a thousand trays a month. that's alot of microgreens out to the local las vegas area, farmers markets, you know, they go tothe fresh 52 farmers markets. they also sell directly to some restaurants in town. so,they grow a lot of nutrient dense food here in this warehouse and we're going to checkit out in a second. so, now is the moment you guys have been waiting for, let's checkout this warehouse and see how they're growing
inside. if they can do it in a warehouse,you can do it in your own kitchen. alright, so now this is the warehouse and as you cansee they just have a whole bunch of lights, and i might be blinded form the camera fora second but they have a light cycle of 19 hours on and, you know, 5 hours off, so theseguys get a lot of light so that they can grow really fast. as you can see, there's justracks and racks and racks of different microgreens growing. now, this warehouse is only about1000 square feet, so this is like the perfect size to keep the temperature ideal withouteven using air conditioning here in las vegas. they have a cooler they use in the summertime to keep it cool and in the wintertime it's pretty much an unheated warehouse exceptfor small amounts of heat put out by the lights.
let's talk about the lighting for a second.they're actually using the full spectrum of lights. this is the 6500k lights, or t8 instandard fixtures. so, you know you don't have to get any special kind of lights. justgo down to your local home depot and get some standards shop lights and, you know, get somereally good lights there and save some money instead of trying to buy some expensive lightsthat, you know, may grow a little bit better and faster but, you know, its definitely goodto save some money too. so, any old light will work. as you can see they just got the4 foot lights and they just got the wooden shelves made out of 2x4's and plywood here,which are available at any home depot or lowes, so you could literally build a setup likethis anywhere you live, and they're just deep
enough to have these flats and one sectionhere, and each 8 foot section of light can hold about 8 flats, and this will producea lot of microgreens. right here we're looking at some beautiful amaranth microgreens. so,yes, you can grow that in you garden to eat, but when growing the microgreens one of thecool things is, when you grow 'em in the microgreen seed, they're even more nutritious than eatingthe regular vegetables. now, you know that i always promote you guys eat your greens,after all my channel is growyourgreens, but how about growing some microgreens? theseguys can be four times, minimum four times, more nutritious, but up to 40 times more nutritiousthan the big ones. that being said, you eat a lot more to get even a sufficient amountof calories in you, but they are great to
spice up your salad, add to soups and addto other recipes in your kitchen to ramp up the nutrition in them. next, i want to showyou guys how they're growing here. this is the secondary stage where they're actuallygrowing them to fruition, or to microsproutition, and it actually only takes 10-14 days, andthis is the second half. the first half is actually when they're sprouting the seeds,and let's show you the area where they're sprouting the seeds in compete darkness. alright,so now we're going to look at stage number one for how these microgreens turn in to microgreens.before they're microgreens they're actually sprouts, and i know what you guys might bethinking, 'hey, john aren't sprouts good for us?' well, that's as long as they're safeto eat, there have been recently recalls with
sprouts, and i don't know exactly why thathappens, but it's probably because the seed stock is infested, but here with the microgreensyou're not going to have the same problems with the microgreens grown hydroponically,because a lot of the challenges with sprouts is that you're eating the roots, the seeds,and all, and in the microgreens you're actually clipping the tops off, so there's no bacteriain the roots. so, the first stage is right over here. you can see we have al these flatslike you just saw, but the flats are now covered. there's actually 2 flats. the top of the flatis actually providing the darkness for the bottom. it's also keeping the humidity inthe proper range for the sprouts that are now starting to germinate. so, these sproutsare seeded on the growing medium, and then
they're watered, and then as you see they'restarting to sprouts already. now, what happens then is these are covered because that's whatin nature, plants need to be covered, they need to be in the dark, to sprout properly,and so they cover these guys, and what they do after they've got the medium seeded, theywater it, and not too much water, because if it gets mold, if it gets too wet it wantsto be just moist, not sopping wet, no standing water, then they plant it and then they'regoing to basically mist it and spray it like twice a day, maybe 2 sprays on the tray and2 sprays on the top. now, they're spraying the top actually to keep the moisture levelproper, because, you know, you don't want these seeds drying out because they're notgoing to produce. once again, this place is
producing like 1000 trays a month, and eachtray on average produces about 4 ounces of the microgreens. so, that's definitely a lotof microgreens. 250 pounds are coming out of this small 1000 square foot warehouse,so if they're doing it here in large volumes you can easily grow just a few trays in yourhome to supplement the green you're eating at home, to have some of the best greens youcan eat. so, next we're going to set these guys back down, and what they do to keep trackof all these cause they have so many different flats growing, they have a piece of tape onhere. so, they have the abbreviation on here and the date it was started. so, rg standsfor red giant and that's red giant mushroom and that was started on the seventh. todayit is currently the 11th so this is going
to be in here for maybe a coupe more daysbefore maybe they are ready to take out and put into lighting, so then they will startgrowing more and start to green up and start producing chlorophyll. i guess next i wantto take a look more at the different varieties of microgreens that they're growing here.so, you guys saw how the seeds sprout. once they're sprouted, they get to go in the light,under the light, so they can start to green up, and once again these guys take about 10-14days on average, and you know, some things take a lot longer, but on average that's howlong they take. i want to show you guys the variety of the microgreens that you can grow.there's so many different kinds. as a matter of fact, here, they're in production on 24different kinds of different microgreens throughout
the year. at this time, though, they have15 different varieties, so i'm going to actually share with you some of those. here's somemicrogreen boc choi, maybe i'll even try a little bit and show you guys how they taste.now, i love boc choi. boc choi is one of my favorite asian greens. wow, and you'll noticewhen eating the microgreens, the flavor is much more intense than any boc choi that youwill have ever tasted, and that's one of the things they work on here is to, you know,get the maximum taste sensation in your mouth, but also when there's more taste sensation,guess what? there's also more nutrition in it for you. so, i mean, a lot of the chefsthat buy from the urban hydro greens here, they want the best flavor and with the microgreenyou're going to get eh best flavor, so those
boc choi microgreens were really good. next,we're going to go to the next tray here. this is the broccoli, and the broccoli microgreensare probably one of the most nutrient microgreens you're growing here. if you're only goingto grow one microgreen, i suggest you guys grow broccoli. it grows very fast, it growsreally full, and also there's a lot of research on the broccoli sprouts, and if it's in thesprouts, guess what? it's in the microgreens and it probably in higher concentrations.these organo-sulfur compounds that they have shown to be helpful in fighting things likecancer. so, you know, why wait until you get cancer to start growing broccoli sprouts?why don't you eat it now and disease-proof yourself? so, besides broccoli, they havewhole bunch growing, they have something like
this stuff right here. they have the bluecurly kale. so, here's some kale microgreens here. literally what you're going to see thatmost of the cruciferous vegetables, you know, the broccoli, the kale, the cauliflower, korabi,those guys actually do really well in the microgreens climate or situation because they'regenerally fast growers. over here we've got another good microgreen. this is actuallythe beets, and i want to show you guys actually the cool colors of the beets. so, check outthese cool pink red, it's almost like a fluorescent color if you're seeing this in person. i don'tknow if you can see that on your camera, but i want to encourage you guys to always eatyour foods of color. every different color are going to be different vital chemicalsin there for you that are going to, you know,
be nutritious for you and feed all the trillionsof cells in your body. over here we've got another cool one. this is actually the mustardgreens. you can kind of see they got the purple tops on there. here we've got some broccoli,and i want to show you guys the comparison in broccoli. so, they're using 2 primary growingmediums here. they got these guys here which is the sterile grow pads, and you can seethe roots here basically growing through he grow pads to the bottom, and you can see howmuch water is actually in here, and check it out, there's no pooling water. you wantit moist, but you don't want too much water. too much water will cause too much mold, andguess what? if your plants don't have enough water, they're not going to be living toomuch longer, and these guys were started one
the 31st and these guys were started, broccoli,on the 4th, but instead of using sterile grow pads, they're using a coconut core medium,and you can see the difference in how much fuller at his is and how much more vibrantthese guys are in actually less time in growth. now, the reason why they use 2 different growingmediums is that they like to do a lot of experimentation here and find out which id going to grow thebest under different situations. the reason for the sterile growing pads is that it makesharvesting a lot easier. with the coconut core, you've got to get the core off the microgreenswhen you're going to sell it, but if you growing at home, it may be really good to use thecoconut core, which is going to grow a lot more vibrant, plus the coconut more is moreof a renewable resource. once you're done
using it for your microgreens once, you wantto take it out and put it in your garden. you do not want to be reusing your growingmediums. unfortunately on the sterile growing pads, you're going to have to basically tossthese out. they're not really recyclable. the next thing i want to talk about it thetemperature. you can see we got a thermometer here, and a humidity meter here, and it'svery important to have the right temperature for you babies that are growing. if you don'thave the right temperature, they're either going to stop growth, like at 90 degrees,if they don't like the hot weather too much they pretty much stop growth and not too muchhappens, or if it's too cold, they're not going to be growing well. the optimal rateis probably between, like, i don't know, 70-80
degrees would probably be a really nice rangethat your microgreens are going to have to be growing the best, and guess what? mostof you guys are going to be keeping your house between 70 and 80 in the winter time, so that'sa perfect temperature to be growing your microgreens in the same climate, or the same temperature,that you guys like. now, the humidity, mainly, most humidity's will be fine. the main thingis with high humitidies it may cause mold growth, because, you know, it's too wet. so,you don't really have to control your humidity, but you want to pay attention to it and ifyou're in a high humidify area, you might want to add a few fans to get some air circulationbecause air circulation will actually lower insistences of mold growth, but guess what?if there's too much water, there's going to
be mold grow no matte how many fans you puton it. the next thing i want to show you, they have a lot of timers set up here. theyjust got a lot of these appliance timers. these are the same appliance timers that you'lluse like if you're on vacation during christmas, to flip your christmas tree light on and off.i mean, these are available for like $5-10, and they have the cycle, 19 hours on and 5hours off. so, it's really simple, they have all these plugged into the strip here, allthe identical setting, and all these lights come on and come off every single day, becausethe plants need the light to photosynthesize to create the nutrition in the plant. now,one of the next things i want to talk to you guys about is very important, is actually,you know, when to harvest your microgreens,
because you know, what happens is, how thesemicrogreens are able to grow is because the seeds, the seeds are packets, they're littlepackets of nutrition, and they have enough nutrition in itself to prolong and grow theseed for a certain amount of time. after that time, you get nutrient degradation and alsoplant degradation because now the plants are mature enough that they want o send theirroots out and nutrition with the roots, and in the hydro plants here, you know, withoutany nutrition, it's just literally in water and the seeds basically, so the plants aren'table to uptake any nutrients. so, i'm going to show you guys what happens if you let yourmicrogreens go on and grow too long without harvesting them. so, here's some radish thathas been planted and started on the 23rd,
so these are about 3 weeks old, and as youcan see, these are not looking too healthy. they're kind of getting yellowish, you know,leaves, and they're kind of tuning a lighter green color, and that's because these plantsare so mature after 3 weeks that they're wanting to pull up nutrients, you know from the ground,if they're in the ground, but they're not able to because they're only getting the water.so, at this point for the commercial purposes, this tray is going to be composted, it's outof here; it's not a viable product to sell. so, you want to be sure to harvest tour microgreensand the right stage. let's take a look next door. these radishes, believe it or not, arethe same radishes, and i want to show you guys the difference in color. look at thedifference in color. these are nice and green;
the nutrients are still being pulled up fromthe seed and not from the roots. these are also getting their second set of leaves here,so you want to harvest your microgreens before your second set of leaves for the most nutrition.one of the interesting things about microgreens is that, you know, they contain more nutrientsin the plants themselves. so, take for example broccoli. one ounce of microgreens is saidto have the equivalent of nutrition in 1.5 pounds of the broccoli florets. so, you know,i want to encourage you guys to eat the most nutrition dense foods as possible and by growingyour own microgreens or by buying at a place like urban hydro greens, you'll be assuredsome of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, because after all, i hope you're eatingfor the nutrients, and not just eh calories,
because if, you know, most people eat emptycalories, or what i consider junk food. things like mcdonalds and packaged foods. if youlook on the nutrition label, it'll be very high in calories, but also on the nutritionlike the vitamins, the mineral, and the vital chemicals, they're all zero or next to zero.it's these guys, it's very low calories but the most nutrition, and i think that's whatwe need in our society is to be eating nutrient dense foods instead of calorie dense foods.it'll be a lot healthier and also, you know, a proper weight. so, you guys might be wondering,you know, 'is it really easy to grow these microgreens?' i mean, it sounds really good,and think you guys should grow them literally in your house and you know, it's really easyto get set up and start growing these things.
so, the next thing we're going to cover isactually how you guys grow it at home. the first step, really important is the lighting.it's really important you get the proper lighting, and guess what? this lighting is not expensive,people. this is a 'lights of america' shop light, from wal-mart, it's about $12, andyou can see here it's got 2 4-foot florescent tubes, and if you're asking, 'john, what kindof tubes do i get?' well, guess what? i got 'em right here so you guys could see. thisis the 'sylvania daylight 6500k, 2700 lumens, 32 watts, 7000 hours, 75 cri,' and 6500k 34inch 32 watts. so, these are the light you're going to want to get, and you can get thesea local lowes or home depot store. you know, you buy em in this pack here, and you'll savea little money than buying buy the singles.
so, that's the lighting. so, the lightingis one of the things you're going to need. the next thing your going to need is you'regoing to need all the proper equipment. so, what i'm going to do next is actually giveyou guys a lesson on how you can get this kit that has the seeds and everything youneed to grow to start growing your own microgreens at home. so, let's go ahead and show you guysthe kit, and show you guys how to grow some microgreens. so, now we're in the area ofurban hydro greens where they give classes to teach people how to grow the microgreens.they usually do 2 classes a month, and they have small class sizes. from 6 to 8 people,where you can learn how to grow your own microgreens at home. if you're anywhere in the las vegasarea. now, you'll get a tour, and they'll
even set you up with a little grow kit, andshow you guys how to use it. if you're not able to come to urban hydro greens to getyour own personal class, i will share with you guys, actually, a kit that you can buyonline that comes in this box here, so you can start growing some microgreens in yourhome. so, let's go ahead and open up this box and sow you guys what this kit includes.so, this is a kit that you'll get actually sent to you. so, the first thing when youopen the kit, you're going to get some laminated instructions. so, this first one is very valuable.one the front is 'microgreen growing kit,' on the back; this is what's really important.this is actually, all these different pictures here, 7 different pictures, show you day byday what your seeds should look like when
they're germinating. this is very importantwhen you're starting so that you can know exactly what you're doing is right or not,and if not, guess what? you guys need to make some adjustments. the main thing is when germinatingyour seeds is not to put too much water, and not to put too little water. the water needsto be just right, like goldilocks porridge. so, the next thing you're going to get inthis kit here is some printed instructions with some definitions, materials, and 7 simplestep by step instruction that will explain to you guys how to grow the microgreens inthis kit. in addition it has troubleshooting and tips, and this is actually very importantif you're not doing something right, you need to figure out what's going on and correctthat so you're microgreens can grow and feed
your body. let's see here. there's standardtrouble shooting tips that may help you and also it shows you some uses on how you canuse some of the microgreens, and at the end of this video, i'm going to show you guyssome of my uses of the microgreens the next thing you're going to get, these guys righthere, these are ph test strips. these are actually very important component of the kit.i didn't talk about it earlier, but it's very important that the water you're using forgrowing the microgreens are in the proper ph range. if your water isn't in the properrange, your microgreens will not flourish and grow as quickly or grow as well as you'dlike them or how they're growing here. so, the ph that they recommend for growing themicrogreens is around a 6 on the ph scale.
most standard city water is around 8, so you'regoing to have to adjust that down, and i'll talk about that in a sec, but with the phpapers, you can assure yourself that you have the right ph in the water. the next thingyou're going to get is a little squirt bottle, or a little spray bottle, and this is actuallyvery important to mist your microgreens while they're in the germination stage you needto give 'em just the right amount of water. so, with this, you're going to be able tomist 'em and not provide too much water for your microgreens. in addition, you're goingto get the seeds, and normally, this kit would come 4 different kinds of seeds, but sinceyou guys are growingyourgreens viewers, i've had them include an extra seed packet here.so, each of these seed packet, in this size,
will grow 2 half-size trays. in the near future,they will just give you individual packets and each packet will seed one tray. so, thiskit will see a total of 10 trays. normally it only seeds 9 trays. so, the seeds includedwith this kit are the blue curl kale, the tot soi, and besides using these for microgreens,you can hold a few seeds back and actually plant 'em out in your garden as well, becausethey will grow. next we have the crimson thai mustard, and this is the mustard i showedyou guys earlier. it has a nice purple color to it. in addition, we've got the broccoliseeds, which is my favorite microgreen, the most nutritionally dense, and finally we'vegot a radish blend, and this is a blend that i encourage you guys to start with first,because radishes actually grow really fast.
aside from that, you've got the sterile growingmediums. so, you have enough to do 10 half trays. you're also going to get 10 growingmediums to get you're growing in. finally the last 2 components of the kit are the half-sixetrays. these are the trays that come with the kit. you can also purpose trays, sterilegrowing mediums, and seeds as well from the urban hydro greens, and the full-size trayswill be this size, but in this case we're just doing the half-size trays, because that'sthe best way to start out with if you're new at growing microgreens. so, next i want toshow you guys how to set up and start growing some of these microgreens. alright, so nowwe're going to use this kit to grow some microgreens. so, it's really easy. you're not going toneed too much more than what supplied in the
kit. the number one thing, of course, to startany seed, is some standard tap water here. now, i recommend you guys let your tap waterhang out overnight to maybe dissipate some of the chlorine off, or maybe use some filteredwater if you're concerned about it, although that's not a requirement at all. besides thewater, we need to make sure the ph of the water is proper. so, what you're going todo instead of buying some expensive ph adjuster at a hydroponic store, you get this stuffhere that you may already have in your kitchen. it's just distilled white vinegar. you don'thave to get a particular brand or anything; it's just some white vinegar. this stuff isvery acidic, so by just adding a little bit, and here in las vegas we need to add about1 teaspoon to 1 gallon of water to get the
ph to the level we want. so, once you've addeda teaspoon, which we already have done, we're going to go ahead and take the ph test stripsto ensure the ph is correct. so, i'm going to go ahead and stick that in the water. phtest strips are also really useful. you can actually check you're ph, and there's a rangewhere we want to be as well. anyways, we've got this and we're going to go ahead and matchup the colors and check it out. that's just about a 6 so this is going to work for usjust fine. the next step is, now that we've got our ph adjusted water, we're going totake our sterile growing pad right here, and all you need to do is just soak this. so,to do that we're just going to dunk it in the water and the very important thing isdon't just pull it out and say, 'okay, john,
i got it soaked.' look at that, that is dripping,that is soaked. we don't want it that wet, we want it just moist. guess what? more watercreates mold, not going to be good. so, we're just going to go ahead and wring that out.you don't want to wring it out too dry; you just want it enough so that it's no longerdripping. so, i think that's a pretty good moisture. you can kind of feel the moisturein there, it's not dripping, good enough. lay it in your little half tray here. i mean,this is pretty simple stuff. anybody can do it. i'm going to go ahead and move that wateraside. the next thing is we're going to need our seeds because that's what we're growing.go ahead and take a plastic cup. we've got a standard clear plastic cup here. i wishi had a red solo cup, but this is not, and
we've got the seeds here. now, if you getthis size seed packet, this contains enough for 2 half flats. if you get a smaller sizeziploc bag, then that's enough for 1 flat. so, how will you know? if you get 10 individualpackets, then you're going to put all of the seeds in one packet into the half flat. ifyou get 5 of these guys, then you're only going to use half the seeds. so, what i'vedone is i've put all these seeds down at the bottom here and, you know, it's pretty even,and i'm going to take my hand and hold half of it, about half, and i'm going to go aheadand open the top here so that only half the seeds come out of this and we're going todump them in the cup. alright, so once you've got your seeds all poured out in your cuphere, this is your seed dispersement tool.
so, it's easier to pour them out of a cupthan the little baggie there. so, what we're going to do is just go around and just shakethese out, and a very important thing to do, you want an even distribution. you don't wantthem all bunched up. if you get your seeds bunched up then that may cause, guess what?the big m, the mold, and we don't want the mold. so, very important to evenly space yourseeds out, and you don't want too many seeds by the edges, too, cause that's not a goodthing either. so, you want to try to get them mostly in the center and evenly distributedthroughout this whole little tray. so, just take your time and, you know, they're goingto bounce a little when they go in there, so if you kind of go a little bit closer they'renot going to bounce as much and go all over,
but remember you ay want to get your seedsdistributed evenly throughout this whole little tray. and yes, there is an art form to dispersingyour seeds, and you'll get better at it over time. i'm just going back to fill in differentparts where there's not enough seeds and just shake out a few seeds so we get a nice evendispersal. now, if you're ocd this might take you about a half hour, if you're not, it mighttake about 5 minutes. maybe just 2 minutes. i'm a little bit ocd, so it's taking me abut longer than normal. don't drop your cup. okay, so we've got a coupe more seeds in thecup here. going right down. now, i'm a bad seed spreader, man, i got a couple near theedges, so if that happens, all you're going to do is take it and flick it like you'reflicking your loved ones ear. alright, so
we got the seeds pretty well on the littlegrowing medium here, and the next thing is you're going o take a little spray bottleand you want to a give your seeds some water. so, just spray it a little bit, and once again,you just want it moist, you don't want to drench them. the next thing you're going todo is just spray the inside. just a little bit of moisture. you don't want it soppingwet. if you put this upside down is it dripping rain on you? guess what? too much water, don'tdo it. and next you're just going to put this on, and once you've got this on you're goingto set it in a cool place, you know, not too hot, and obviously it doesn't need to be inthe sun because it's in this darkness stage, and you're just going to basically lift thisup and check out your little babies twice
a day, and at the same time you're checkingthem out, you also want to give them the required nutrients, water. so, once again you're goingto take 2 sprays, 2 sprays, and you may need to us a bit more, maybe less, but not toomuch. i like that they give you the spray bottle so that can ensure you don't give themtoo much water. so, every 12 hours, twice a day, spray them and just let it do it'sthing and guess what? in 4 days, let me show you guys what you're going to get. so, after4 days it's going to look like this. you can see there, we've got these guys growing, and,you know, they're not quite green yet but that's alright, because these seeds are stillgerminating. some barely germinated some have already been growing and some of these actually,the tallest one's like an inch. so, after
4 days, it's going to look like this, andguess what you're going to continue to do this. you're going to mist it in the trayand in the top and u tit back and you're going to leave this hanging out a couple more daysuntil it's ready to be moved on to the next stage. so, you're going to keep it like thisuntil 1 of 2 things, or both of these things happens. you're going to take it off and you'regoing to see all the seeds that your germinated are about an inch tall, and don't be concernedif they're all still yellow because, guess what? they're in complete darkness. you wouldbe yellow, too, if you were in darkness. but, when they get under the light, they're goingto have a nice tan color. well, not actually tan. they're going to be green! so, don'tworry if they're still yellow at this stage.
how do you know when to take them out of thedarkness? well, they need to be all 1 inch tall or if you pull up the matting a littlebit, you'll see that there's good root in there, and obviously right not there's notgood roots because we pulled that up and all the seeds are flopping all over the place.so, make sure those 2 things happen, and we'll show you the next stage with some camera magic.so, after a total of 8 or 9 days, so in less than 2 weeks, this is what you're going toget with this kit. you're going to get your own microgreens to eat at home. it's goingto green up because after it gets tall enough you're going to out it under your lightingyou got, and make sure you use the lighting. if you don't use the lighting i recommended,you try to do it in the window or something,
things aren't going to grow as fast and itay take longer, so get the proper tools to grow the foods and eat more of it insteadof waiting longer, and the lights are not a huge investment. so, yes, these guys aregoing to grow up really well and really good, and once they're at this stage you can actuallyjust take some scissors and cut them off, and use the microgreens, because the wholepurpose on why you're growing them is to use them, and when i say use them i mean eat hemand get them into your body. if you are eating microgreens what you're going to find it thatthey're much more digestible than the hard greens. now, i don't know if you guys eatradish greens. i are some for dinner last night actually, bit they're very hard tasting,like better tasting because they don't have
a strong flavor. these guys are actually anice delectable delicious flavor and these guys are much more nutrient packed with nutrients,even more than the baby greens that i always encourage you guys to harvest out of yourgarden. now, how else can you use these besides making a little salad out of the microgreens?you know, you can add these to your salad. so, you know, i like to make a nice saladout of green form your garden if you're growing them, and then put dressing on it and thenout some of these on top. you can do the same with other cooked dishes, but the one thingyou want to remember is you do not want to cook your microgreens. these are baby plants.if you were a baby you wouldn't like to be cooked either. they will wilt very fast andthen they'll no longer look attractive and
guess what? when you're heating your food,you're lowering the nutrition in your food as well. so, these are best eaten raw. so,besides the salads, you can also add them to soup. so, i make uncooked soups in my vitamixby literally blending up different vegetable juices, and you can blend up your microgreensin there as well. another thing you can do is called green smoothies. i highly encourageyou guys to drink green smoothies, whether they're made with the greens out of your gardenor microgreens, and i have a few videos on that. basically what you're going to do isyou're going to take some purified water and like 4 bananas, maybe 1 or 2 frozen bananas,and a whole bunch of microgreens. you know, i'd put maybe one half this whole tray inone smoothie, and just blend it up and drink
it on up. the microgreens will get blendedup into smaller particle size and have even better absorption out of the nutrient in hererather than just chewing them because most people just take 2 chews and swallow. it'svery important, whatever you're eating whether microgreens or not, is to chew your food adequatelyinto a mush because think about it, why do we feed babies baby food? because they don'thave any teeth and they need a mush, but because we have teeth were supposed to chew our foodinto a mush every mouthful before swallowing. with that being said, these guys are verytender, and they don't need to be chewed as much as the larger adult leaves of the sameplants. so, another way i like to use microgreens especially is in wraps. whether you're makinga collard wrap or using some nori or some
sushi, take some greens and fill it up inthe wrap. i mean, use literally, and i like to fill i up with other ingredients, and thenroll it up and just eat it. this is a great to go food, and you can just take these asyour lunch, and sometimes i'll just eat these for dinner. another reason for the microgreensare to add flavor elements to whatever you're eating. so, instead of using, say, mustardin a jar, you can get some mustard microgreens and get the same mustard bite. so, what ido with the mustard greens is actually add those to a salad dressing and get a nice mustardflavor. imagine a honey mustard dressing made with your own fresh microgreens, wow, that'sgoing to be delicious. those are just some of the uses of microgreens, and i'm sure youcan come up with a lot more, but before you
get to use your microgreens, you got to startgrowing them yourself. so, you want to visit the facebook page or urban hydro greens andyou can order this kit, this very kit that i showed you. once again, the growingyourgreensonly kit, normally the kit only includes enough for 8 half tray. the growing your greens kitis going to include the seeds you saw, enough for 10 full half trays, and you can also orderadditional seeds, and, you know, the pads from urban hydro greens, but once you runout of the standard pad, what i encourage you guys to use is this stuff right here.some kind of coconut core, they actually are for the wondersoild here, and you can usethe coconut core rather than the sterile growing pads. it makes harvesting a little bit moredifficult you may get some coconut core you
have to weed out but once again the coconutcore is more renewable because once you're done using it one time, don't reuse this stuff,once you're done using it to grow your microgreens, you're going to use this stuff in your garden,which will actually help hold the water in your garden. so, you're going to mix thisin with your compost and your soil mediums. this is especially good for a container garden.so, don't waste any of these valuable nutrients at home. especially all the base of this stuffyou can compost as well. so, i hope you guys enjoyed this episode of urban hydro greens.if you're anywhere in las vegas you want to definitely come buy and take one of theirclasses to learn in detail and actually get a factory tour and show guys how they're growinghere. i highly recommend their classes. if
you don't want to grow your own, you can visitthem at the farmers markets or give them a call or contact them through the facebookpage to order the microgreens yourself to get some of the highest nutrient dense foodsgrown anywhere in the las vegas valley, and finally you want to visit their facebook pageso you can order your own microgreens growing kit, and make sure you get the growingyourgreensspecial. i'll put a link down for their facebook page right below this video so you guys cando just that. so, after watching this video you are fully prepared to start growing microgreenin your kitchen or in your home any time of the year. so, not longer can you say, 'john,i can't grow, it's winter time it's freezing.' you can grow these guys inside all year long.they love the temperature we live, and after
you grow them at eat them, you're going tofeel a lot better about it as well. so, once again, my name is john kohler with growingyourgreens.comand remember, keep on growing.