Organic Red Clover Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens
Organic Red Clover Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens
Organic Red Clover for Sprouts by the Latin name of Trifolium Pratense.
Home-grown Red Clover sprouts are easy to cultivate in your own kitchen all year.
Your Red 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 Red Clover seeds will grow into 35 handfuls of fresh Clover sprouts or 45 handfuls of crispy, vitamin-rich microgreens.
You can use both the SproutPearl sprouter or any of the other sprouters to cultivate these seeds, as Clover is a very easy seed to cultivate. You should harvest the plants after day 6 of the cultivation, when it has developed a leaf.
Sprouting Time for Organic Red Clover
If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 °C / 64-73 °F, then your Red Clover Sprouts should be ready for harvest after just 6 days of cultivation.
Organic Red Clover Seeds
before soaking
Organic Red Clover Sprouts
after 3 days
Organic Red Clover Sprouts
after 6 days
Facts on Red Clover Sprouts and Microgreens
Red clover can be cultivated to both sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen all year.
NAMES
Red clover sprouts and microgreens is the sister of Crimson Clover. The Latin name for this plant is Trifolium pratense.
TASTE
You will notice that 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
Red 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
Both Red 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
Red 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
As sprouts clover 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 Red 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 Red 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 Red Clover seeds and plants every morning and evening until they are at your desired growth stage.
6
Your Red Clover sprouts are mature after 6 days. Your Red Clover microgreens are ready for harvest after 14 days.
Tips for Red Clover Sprouts and MicrogreensÂ
MOISTURE
Organic Red 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 Red 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.
Lars –
Great as microgreens
Inga T –
I have been very satisfied with my purchase in this shop. Red clover was one of my choices. Alfalfa, Radish and Mungbean were the others.