Organic Alfalfa seeds for Microgreens

These Organic Alfalfa seeds are easy to grow into Microgreens in your kitchen all year. This variety of Alfalfa seeds has the Latin name Medicago sativa. They are also called: Lucerne, Luzerne, Snail Clover, Everlasting Clover, Alfa Alfa.

Vitamins and minerals in Alfalfa

Alfalfa Microgreens are very nutritious. They contain the vitamins: A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B9, C, K and the minerals Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, Phosphorus, Manganese.

Taste and use in food

Your home-grown microgreens of Alfalfa has a delicious mild taste of iceberg lettuce. Their very mild taste means they will go well in most green dishes as a substitute for regular salad in sandwiches, green salads, dips and wraps.

You can also choose to blend your Alfalfa sprouts or microgreens into a healthy smoothie with other vegetables. As the plants are almost neutral in taste, they will go well with most other ingredients.

Cultivation time of organic Alfalfa seeds for Microgreens

You can grow your organic Alfalfa seeds into either sprouts or microgreens. If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 ° C / 64-73 ° F, your Alfalfa sprouts should be ready for harvest after 6 days of cultivation. At the same temperature, they should have grown to mature microgreens after a total of 12 days.

Cultivation device for Alfalfa microgreens

You will get the best result of your Alfalfa Microgreens, if you cultivate the plants in a device, that let the plants get plenty of oxygen. A SproutPearl sprouter or a Hemp mat are both very good for this plant.
See SproutPearl sprouter or See Hemp mat.

Microgreens need light and fertilizer

If you grow Microgreens, then the plants need artificial light and extra fertilizer from day 7 of the cultivation. Under MICRO KIT you can find descriptions about the right amount of light and fertilizer for Microgreens when you use each product. Visit Micro Kit.

I have also written different blog articles about microgreens. Those may interest you and give you tips for succes.
Visit the BLOG.

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Organic Alfalfa Seeds

before soaking

Organic Alfalfa Sprouts

after 3 days

Organic Alfalfa Sprouts

ready for harvest

Tips for Alfalfa or Lucerne Sprouts and Microgreens

Organic Alfalfa or Lucerne seeds can be cultivated to both Sprouts and Microgreens in your kitchen all year.

NAMES

Organic Alfalfa for sprouts and microgreens are also known as Lucerne. The two are the same plant and Latin name for this plant is Medicago sativa.

TASTE

Alfalfa has a very neutral taste like green iceberg lettuce as both sprout and microgreens. The taste is sweeter the more light, you give the plants.

LOOKS

Alfalfa or Lucerne is a fragile looking little sprout. As a mature sprout it is 10 cm long from root tip to leaf top. As a microgreen it is 20 cm long.

NUTRIENTS

Alfalfa sprouts and microgreens contain the nutrients: A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B9, C, K
 and Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Copper, Zinc, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Manganese.

EDIBLE PARTS

Alfalfa / Lucerne is a very sustainable plant as both sprout and microgreen. This is because you can eat the whole plant from root tip to the top of the small green leaves.

TIME

Alfalfa Sprouts take 6 days from seed to edible sprout. As Microgreens they take 12 to 14 days from seed to microgreens ready for harvest and serving for your food.

Tips for your organic Alfalfa Sprouts and Microgreens

MOISTURE

Alfalfa is a thin and sensitive sprout, so make sure it is moist enough between each rinse.

Maybe you need to place the sprouter a little cooler, so the water does not evaporate quite so fast.

COLOR

If your Alfalfa sprouts are yellow even two days after they have unfolded their leaves, they need more light.

The light allow for the plants to develop chlorophyll in their leaves and soon they  turn green.

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