Have you grown microgreens since you were a kid?

[purplepoppy]

Microgreens are plants you eat at the seedling stage. The most common here in the uk is cress or mustard and there can't be many who never grew them on damp toilet paper as a child.

But lots of other microgreens can be grown and are prized by chefy types.

So have you ever grown any kind as an adult?

[Lliam]

The only thing I remember growing as a kid was a potato. You stick three tooth picks in it to suspend it on the rim of a glass with the bottom half submerged. Once it started growing, we planted it.

In my later teens, I started marijuana seeds between paper towels.

Now days, my wife and I grow some veggies, including different kinds of lettuce, kale, and things like that. When we want salad, we can snip off tender leaves without harvesting the entire plant.

[ArrowheadSW]

I just started in on growing microgreens this last summer. I got a package with about a dozen different types of seeds. Some of them taste awesome! There is a bit of a learning curve with them. And I bought a grow light to green them up after a few days of growing in the dark. Interesting how they green up in less than 12 hours.

[FreyaRed]

"So have you ever grown any kind as an adult?"
No. In kindergarten we grew cress sprouts. I liked it on bread with butter.

[wittymilf]

Nope … but m currently growing head lice as an adult though🤔 maybe I should embrace a few other childhood activities.

[mstbooblover]

Not the ones you show in the pictures, but during many years my wife and I had regularly a box of germinating lentils. We prepared them as is the custom with germinated soya beans.

[Jessica405]

My brother and I used wet blotting paper. Great fun cutting cress with scissors and making egg and cress sarnies.

[Chazmatazz269]

Not personally, but i used to work in a food plant where we grew bean sprouts for Asian restaurants. They stink.

[jamesgoldman]

No, I can buy a box of mixed cress for, at last call, 27p

My time is worth more than growing my own

[dustybiker]

Haven’t thought about it. Thanks for the reminder. I will.

[KittyKat90210]

I haven't done that but it sounds cool to try

[exitseven]

Nope < I planted a vegetable garden with some herbs but never microgreens.

[Old_Golden]

Yes, mostly for greens, peas, and bean sprouts,

[krin_m]

Yes, I regularly grow them!

[katiesmuff]

Something I have never done.

[Timid-guy]

No but i have a micropenis

[EaterPeter]

Yes.

[Twalker5]

yes indeed