Organic Colza Rape seeds for Microgreens
These Organic Rape seeds are easy to grow into Microgreens in your kitchen all year. This variety of Rape seeds has the Latin name Brassica Napus. They are also called Colza or Colza rape.
Vitamins and minerals in Colza microgreens
Your homegrown Colza Rape Microgreens contain the vitamins: A, B, C, E, K and the minerals Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc, Phosphorus. Broccoli sprouts and microgreens also have a high content of Glucosinolates (GLS) and Isothiocyanates (ITC).
Taste and use in food
Your home-grown microgreens of the variety Rape – Colza – has a delicious mild taste of Rape seed oil. As a microgreen, your Colza Rape is a delicious substitute for regular salad in sandwiches, green salads, dips and wraps.
You can also choose to blend your Rape sprouts or microgreens into a healthy smoothie with other vegetables. Or you can stew it with spinach. Some choose to juice it to get larger amounts of antioxidants from their Broccoli plants.
Cultivation time
You can grow your organic Colza seeds into either sprouts or microgreens. If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 ° C / 64-73 ° F, your Rape 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 Colza rape microgreens
You will get the best result of your Colza Rape 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.
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Isabella L –
I have never grown sprouts or microgreens before, so I was very exited if it would work. It all went great. I am back here to find more seeds for my green kitchen 🙂