Organic Crimson Clover Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens
Organic Crimson Clover for Sprouts by the Latin name of Trifolium Pretense.
Home-grown Clover sprouts are easy to cultivate in your own kitchen all year. Your Crimson Clover will grow into Sprouts in 6 days or Microgreens in 12 days.
Both sizes of plants taste like iceberg lettuce.
They are one of the most nutrient rich sprouts, you can grow yourself. They are delicious in smoothies, salads, sandwiches, as topping etc.
50 gram Crimson Clover seeds will grow into 35 handfuls of fresh Clover sprouts or 45 handfuls of crispy microgreens.
You can use both the SproutPearl sprouter or one of the other sprouters in this shop to cultivate these seeds, as Clover is a very easy seed to cultivate. You can harvest the plants after day 6 of the cultivation, when it has developed a leaf. Or you can continye the cultivation until the Sprouts have turned into the bigger Microgreens after 12 days of cultivation.
Sprouting Time for Organic Clover
If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 °C / 64-73 °F, then your Crimson Clover Sprouts should be ready for harvest after just 6 days of cultivation.
Organic Crimson Clover Seeds
before soaking
Organic Crimson Clover Sprouts
after 3 days
Organic Crimson Clover Sprouts
after 6 days
Crimson Clover Sprouts and Microgreens
Crimson clover can be cultivated to both sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen all year.
NAMES
Crimson and White clover sprouts and microgreens are the sisters of Red Clover. The Latin name for this plant is Trifolium pratense.
TASTE
Crimson clover 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
Crimson clover 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
Crimson clover sprouts and microgreens contain the nutrients: A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B9, C, K
and Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, Phosphorus, Manganese.
EDIBLE PARTS
White clover 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
Crimson clover sprouts take 6 days from seed to edible sprout. As microgreens they take 14 days from seed to microgreens ready for harvest and serving for your food.
How to grow Crimson Clover Sprouts and Microgreens
1
Measure out the right amount of your organic Clover seeds. Each half of the SproutPearl tray needs 6 gram seeds.
2
Soak the seeds in fresh, cold, drinking water in a clean glass for 8 hours. Place it in shade in your kitchen.
3
Pour the Crimson Clover seeds into your SproutPearl seed tray after soaking and rinse with clean, cool water.
4
Put the seed tray into the SproutPearl and place it on your clean kitchen counter out of hot sun or cold draft.
5
Rinse your White Clover seeds and plants every morning and evening until they are at your desired growth stage.
6
Your Crimson Clover sprouts are mature after 6 days. Your Crimson Clover microgreens are ready for harvest after 14 days.
Tips for Crimson Clover Sprouts and Microgreens
MOISTURE
Organic Crimson Clover 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 Crimson Clover 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.
Liza –
I really like this webshop. Great service and products. Thanks for choosing these seeds. They succeded very well.