You can grow many seeds and beans into sprouts. Other groups of bothanical families are also very suitable for sprouting and microgreens.
What Seeds, Beans and Grains can you sprout?
There are more than 40 varieties of seeds, beans, lentils, peas and corn suitable for your sprouting.
Here I will show all those you can find in my webshop.
To find your way around them all, I put them into 5 groups. Each group has their own charateristics that affect how you cultivate them.
They are:
Seed – Gelling seed – Seeds with hulls – Legume – Grain.
5 groups of Sprouting Seeds
The five groups of seeds you can grow into sprouts and microgreens are:
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SEEDS
Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens are harvested from vegetable, salad and herbs. You most often cultilvate this group to sprouts and microgreens with leaves, but some you can harvest with a small root.
You can see on all seed bags in my shop, which size each variety is suitable for harvest.
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GELLING SEEDS
Gelling seeds for sprouts are salad, spice or herb seeds. These seeds form gel, when they get wet. That is why, I also call them mucilaginous sprouting seeds.
You most often cultilvate this group to sprouts and microgreens with leaves, but some you can harvest with a small root.
You can see on all seed bags in my shop, which size each variety is suitable for harvest.
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SEEDS WITH HULLS
Seeds with hulls for sprouts are flower or vegetable seeds. These seeds are sold with their hulls intact on the seed. This is because the seed inside i oily and therefore quite fragile.
You always cultilvate this group to sprouts and microgreens with leaves until they are so big, they cast the hulls off the leaves themselves.
You can see on all seed bags in my shop, how long you should cultivate each variety of unhulled seeds before you harvest them.
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LEGUMES
Legumes are Beans, Lentils and Peas for sprouts.
Note: As only the below shown varieties have a sufficiently low content of lechtins to be suitable for sprouts, please do not attemp to cultivate hust any legume you may find in your cubboard.
You always cultilvate this group into sprouts with just 1-2 cm long white root. Not until they develop leaves. The only exception to this rule is peas.
You can see on all seed bags in my shop, how long you should cultivate each variety of legume before you harvest them.
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GRAIN
Grain is a group that contain both grains and corn.
This group is most often cultivated till they have long, green leaves. You then cut the leaves from the grain or corn and only eat the leaves. Most juice the leaves for wheatgrass as the cellulose in the leaves is hard on the human stomach.
You may also harvest this group when they have developed just a few mm long white root. The sprouts are then soft and nice in salads.
You can see on all seed bags in my shop, how long you should cultivate each variety of legume before you harvest them.
Seeds in the Webshop
You can find all of the varieties in the webshop