Brussel sprouts are vile, bean sprouts are lovely, many years ago Sainsburys used to sell peanut sprouts those are to die for.
@pansyface Lentils are grown in the UK there's farms all over the country right up to Scotland and over in County Cork as well. It's fairly new (2015) but growing.
@skandi ... how do you grow your mung sprouts? I’d love to get straight ones like that but we grow ours in jars and of course with all the rinsing they change direction every day 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
you need a flat bottomed container with holes in it, another container it can sit inside without holes to catch the drips and a lid to keep out light.
Then I use knitted dishcloths but paper towel will probably work. get them wet and put one in the bottom of the holey container and put the seeds on top, then put another one on top of the seeds, this one needs to be quite heavy, you can stack 3 sets of cloths and seeds on top of eachother if you need a huge amount for some reason.
I then rinse them once or twice a day straight under the tap, which is why you need holes to let the water drain back out.
this photo shows what I mean, the bottom tray has no holes and is deeper than the tray inside so any excess water runs down into it, I guess it's not strictly neccesary but it saves on mess.
The important bit is the cloth over the top, it pushes the sprouts down, making sure they get their root into the bottom cloth which stops them falling over every time you move them to rinse. Come harvest time lay the bottom cloth with the sprouts on somewhere flat and use a serrated knife to cut them all off at root level. you can just pull them out as well if you like the roots.
clean up is easy as well, let the cloths dry out and them shake them outside and all the bits come out.
Interesting technique @Skandi . I've grown cress on paper towels but I wouldn't have thought of using cloths for mung beans. I have some dishcloth cotton kicking about somewhere so I might knit some to fit my half-seedtrays.
Do you take the top cloth off to rinse?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks, I'll try that.