Wheat grass: How To Grow Step by Step Guide

Wheatgrass is a kind of grass used to treat many conditions. The above-ground parts, roots, and rhizome are used to make medicine, primarily used as a concentrated source of nutrients which contains vitamins, iron, calcium, magnesium and amino acids. It is basically a food prepared from the cotyledons of the common wheat plant.

Materials Required:

1. Organic wheatgrass sprouting seeds. Use organic to ensure the best quality, taste and yield of your final sprouts.
2. Organic potting soil and fertilizer to ensure optimum vitamins and minerals in the plant.
3. Plastic gardening tray with holes. Can be reused over and over again. A 21″ x 11″ x 2″ sized tray will yield about 14-18 ounces of juices (last approximately 2 weeks at 1 ounce a day).
4. Spray bottle. Essential to ensure that you do not over water.

Steps To Grow Wheatgrass:

1. Measure out a bowl of seeds enough to fill one layer of seeds on whatever the size of your tray. Rinse them in clean water, drain, then soak in a container with about 2-3 times of cool water.
2. Soak for about 8-10 hours. After 8-10 hours, drain the water, then soak them again for another 8 hours.

3. After the second set of 8-10 hours, drain the water, then soak them once more the same for another 8-10 hours. Check if it has sprouted roots of at least 1/8 of an inch to 1/4 of an inch.

4. Now line the bottom of the tray with unbleached paper towels so that the roots do not protrude at the bottom through the holes in the tray.

5. Fill the tray with pre-moistened soil, compost or potting mix to about one and a half inch of the tray depth. Ensure that your soil does not contain artificial fertilizers or chemicals.

6. Lay out the germinated seeds evenly and densely in one layer, on the damp soil in the tray, gently pressing them into the soil.

7. Place your tray under indirect sunlight but with proper ventilation. Wheatgrass does not like hot direct sunlight.

8. The young shoots need to be watered at least twice a day to keep them nice and moist. For better result, put a sheet of damp newspaper over the tray to keep them moist until they grow to about an inch high.

9. Use a spray bottle for watering, adjusting to light-medium. When the shoots are above one inch, probably about day 5, reduce watering to once a day in the morning. But always ensure that the water is just enough to keep the soil damp to the roots. Avoid over-watering.

10. When your wheatgrass grows to about 6 inches (about day 9 or 10), it is ready for harvesting. Use scissors and cut the wheatgrass just above the seeds.