Day 1: Making a start with MicroGreens
After constructing the environment that we feel is going to be suitable for growing food indoors, and our seeds arrived from KingSeeds, we have started our MicroGreens trial. It was a bit of a messy start, we didn’t have the garage table sorted out with suitable lighting areas so we moved into the kitchen, and we know that our aluminium food /baking trays are a bit flimsy however we haven’t yet discovered the perfect food grade plastic trays for growing in. These will do for starters!
The process was to:
- poke holes in the base of the smaller trays to let the excess water drain out
- break up the coco-coir into smaller chunks (as we didn’t have a clean 9-litre container)
- add water to the coco-coir and watch it soak up the water and expand (quite exciting to watch)
- give the coco-coir a good mix to ensure that it is indeed wet, but not dripping
- use a metal spoon to decanter the mixture into the trays and press down so that the mixture is almost to the brim.
- measure out the seed and sprinkle a suitable amount evenly
- mist the top of the seeds with water
- cover with tin foil to keep the seeds moist
- place into the grow booth and … wait
