🌱 Sunflower Sprouts are Back & SSSprouters Galore 🌱
Sunflower Sprouts
are finally back!
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SUNFLOWER SPROUTS
We now have a lovely lot of Hulled Sunflower seeds in-stock - so we can all once again grow Sunflower Sprouts. It's about time, eh?! We expect to have plenty for the rest of the year - and we will of course be looking for more as fresh crops become available late in the year.
To be crystal clear - we're talking about Hulled Sunflower seeds. These are for sprouts - they're Not for growing Microgreens. We have tremendous Sunflowers with their shells still on - those are the ones that grow into Sunflower Greens.
STAINLESS STEEL SPROUTERS
We have brought in a whole bunch of Stainless Steel Sprouters and small SSSprouters so we've increased the limit. You can now buy 10 of each if you so wish.
AMAZING SEEDS
A customer asked me how our Collard Greens seed did as a Sprout. We sell them for Microgreens - but they can be sprouted - so I grew a crop...
It just so happens that our garden is producing the biggest Collards we've ever grown. We used the same seed for both crops. Amazing Seeds!
We love Collards!!!
IRA
The little fella is enjoying summer - though fog has taken over the western half of San Francisco of late - a common reality here in summer - so we're not spending quite as much time at the park - but he has friends everywhere...
Ira with his best friend, Chester who lives up the block. He came with the name Chester, but his new family had other names. The decided to stick with Chester because of my dear old Chester who was well known in the neighborhood and was much admired by them. It thrills me that I get to keep saying Chester!
Ira and Chester had a wonderful chase in the cul-de-sac.
I am not remembering this pup's name right now, but she sure does stand well, and Ira loves her. Though the picture doesn't relate it - She makes him seem big too.
Here are a couple repeats for those new to the world of Indoor Farming...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPROUTS AND MICROGREENS
To us the difference is that with Sprouts we grow with nothing but water and we eat the entire crop (with the possible exception of hulls and roots that grow out the bottom of our Stainless Steel Sprouters) - and they are alive when we eat them. Microgreens are grown on a medium and we harvest them by cutting them just above that medium - at which point they move from alive to not. Raw, great, delicious - just not alive.
While I'm on this subject I need to explain why we have two different names for the same seed - like Broccoli Sprouts and Broccoli Microgreens. This is the same seed. This seed will grow a full sized - which is like 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide - Broccoli plant in a garden - given the proper encouragement. The difference is that each crop has its own page - you go to the Broccoli Sprouts page to learn how to grow the seed into Sprouts and you go to the Broccoli Microgreens page to learn how to grow it into Micros.
SEED STORAGE
If you don't yet know how to get the longest life for your seeds -and prevent pests - visit our Seed Storage page. The best way to store seeds is in the freezer, but do not use the refrigerator as its humidity fluctuations can harm seeds. There's a bit more to it - so perhaps just visit the page =;-)
Be well and happy.
Gil + Lori
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