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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

5 Uncommon Microgreens To Grow

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Microgreens are one of the fastest and easiest ways to get into growing your own food...but what about some "odd" ones to try out? Here are 5 picks you may not have heard of before. Keep Growing, Kevin Podcast Sponsor: Garden Maker Naturals Natural and organic fertilizers with complete ingredient transparency, custom-mixed for your garden's unique needs. Check it out by clicking this link and tell them Kevin from Epic Gardening sent you! Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're talking about some uncommon microgreens you should consider growing.

0:09.0

And whether you're a commercial microgreen grower or you just want to grow it at home for fun,

0:14.7

I highly recommend growing some of these interesting greens.

0:19.3

Now, before we get into that, let's talk about Garden Maker, the sponsor for the Epic Gardening

0:24.1

podcast. They make natural organic custom mixed fertilizers for your garden. I use them and I love them. They're in all of my raised beds right now and it's just wonderful.

0:35.8

I really I love the company and I love the people that work there and I love the product.

0:39.5

So it's a win win win win win all around the board and I would encourage you to at least check it out.

0:45.1

It's very affordable actually which is surprising for an organic fertilizer.

0:49.0

So W W.W. gardenermaker.com if you want to check that out. And with that, let's get into some odd or uncommon

0:55.9

micro-greens. Now, a lot of people like to grow radish, sunflower, arugla, peas, pea sprouts are a popular one, but there are a lot more

1:09.6

microgreens that you can grow.

1:12.2

A lot of people growing the uncommon

1:14.1

microgreens right now are growing them because they are commercial

1:17.9

growers and chefs are requesting some of these more uncommon

1:21.8

microgreens,

1:22.8

and because chefs want them,

1:25.0

and sometimes these seeds are either expensive per pound

1:28.0

or hard to find, that means that they can

1:31.2

command a higher price, and that's why some of these growers are growing

1:34.7

shezo and rarer types of basil like a dark opal basil but that's that's not to say that you

1:41.7

can't experiment with some of this stuff at home.

1:44.0

There are a lot of interesting micro-greens that I would recommend you give a try

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