Hi - I have never actually weighed them before they sprout but I would probably put a tablespoonful into a jar of each seed - only 2 jars going at a time otherwise there is waste. Takes about 4-6 days.
Here are a few examples of things I am perhaps not going to have to buy any more. Presumably for much of the time these guys use similar amounts of seed.
I am using about 30-40p worth of seeds to get 100g to 200g of produce, plus other costs detailed.
Every day is a school day, and the jury is still out.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
Wow, that's flash! I just use the lentils from the packet that I use for cooking - red or green. Sometimes I splash out with a bag of mung or adzuki beans from the local "green" shop.
£20 for 650g of seeds, which should give me approx 10-12k of microgreens, which at say £2.00 per 100g is £200 worth. Very ishly. And the exact numbers are not really that important.
My 'notional aim' - just an informal check - is 100g per day plus herbs from 9-12 seed trays in 3-4 shelves.
Still playing.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
Hi - I have never actually weighed them before they sprout but I would probably put a tablespoonful into a jar of each seed - only 2 jars going at a time otherwise there is waste. Takes about 4-6 days.
I reckon I use less than that for a seed tray - around 9-15g. A covering at the bottom of an egg cup.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
Here are a few examples of things I am perhaps not going to have to buy any more. Presumably for much of the time these guys use similar amounts of seed.
I am using about 30-40p worth of seeds to get 100g to 200g of produce, plus other costs detailed.
Every day is a school day, and the jury is still out.
hardly a fair comparison with growing you own from seed to full size in the garden
Here are a few examples of things I am perhaps not going to have to buy any more. Presumably for much of the time these guys use similar amounts of seed.
I am using about 30-40p worth of seeds to get 100g to 200g of produce, plus other costs detailed.
Every day is a school day, and the jury is still out.
hardly a fair comparison with growing you own from seed to full size in the garden
I'll disagree sharply there, as it depends on the comparison - my comparison here is exactly right as "full grown in the garden" is not an option; my garden is currently under 75mm of snow.
I had a cheese and green omelette for lunch, and my recipe involved 0.006 food miles for the microgreens (15 feet there and 15 feet back from the unheated conservatory). The alternative from Waitrose would have involved trucking them across the country, or possibly flying them from Timbuctoo or similar, all in a plastic container padded out with a lot of air.
And some of it is a different crop if full grown.
Yes, there's a debate about seasonality; but perhaps we also need to question freezers as well as 'excessive' quantities of seeds?
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
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I'm getting approx 15x the weight of seeds as the crop if I grow for that, or less if I grow eg parsley for an extended period of harvest.
What about your sprouts?
I am using about 30-40p worth of seeds to get 100g to 200g of produce, plus other costs detailed.
Every day is a school day, and the jury is still out.
I am quite interested in how seeds are mass-produced.
I bought myself one of these 12 variety seed selections for (early) Christmas, having played with a few trad seed packets last year.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FXLYS69/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
£20 for 650g of seeds, which should give me approx 10-12k of microgreens, which at say £2.00 per 100g is £200 worth. Very ishly. And the exact numbers are not really that important.
My 'notional aim' - just an informal check - is 100g per day plus herbs from 9-12 seed trays in 3-4 shelves.
Still playing.
I had a cheese and green omelette for lunch, and my recipe involved 0.006 food miles for the microgreens (15 feet there and 15 feet back from the unheated conservatory). The alternative from Waitrose would have involved trucking them across the country, or possibly flying them from Timbuctoo or similar, all in a plastic container padded out with a lot of air.
And some of it is a different crop if full grown.
Yes, there's a debate about seasonality; but perhaps we also need to question freezers as well as 'excessive' quantities of seeds?