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LET IT GROW!
Growing Microgreens Indoors this Winter
BY PEGGY RICCIO
Now that winter is coming, you can still grow your veggies—
just indoors. Growing microgreens is a fun, cheap way to grow highly nutritious
vegetable seedlings for sandwiches, wraps, soup and salads.

What are Microgreens?
Microgreens are the shoots of edible,
tasty plants, requiring very litt le
space and minimal cost. Microgreens
diff er from sprouts. With
microgreens, the seed germinates in
a growing medium and after one or
two weeks, the “micro” stems and
leaves are cut down to the soil level
and eaten. Sprouts are seeds grown
in a moist container and after a few
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seed—is harvested.

How to Grow Microgreens
You only need to purchase the
growing medium and the seed.

You should be able to reuse plastic
containers commonly found at home
such as grocery store clam shells for
berries or Chinese food containers.

• Step 1: Poke a few holes in the
container for drainage.

• Step 2: Fill the container with 2
inches of bagged, sterile, soilless
growing medium, not soil from
the garden. (The mix specifi cally
made for starting seeds works
best.) • Step 3: Once the container is
fi lled, water thoroughly.