What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. We're going to be growing some wheat grass today on the podcast

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between me and them. Okay, wheatgrass, what about it? Well I'll be the first to

admit for a while I thought wheat grass is one of those health nut foods that people

raved about just because they thought they were being healthy when they eat it.

But I knew as a gardener that I could grow wheatgrass pretty easily myself.

And so I realized actually it's pretty fun and easy to grow and it has some legitimate nutritional benefits. So I changed my opinion on it.

Sure it's not a panacea like some people think it is, but look the seeds are cheap, it's simple

to grow and it's a great addition to any

juice that I make with one of those fancy juicers that a lot of these people these days

have hidden around in their cupboards so let's go ahead and get to growing wheatgrass. What do you need to grow it?

Well, obviously you're going to need some wheatgrass seed. A lot of varieties of

common wheat seed can be used for growing wheatgrass but the hard winter wheat

varieties are the ones that are used the most and that's because winter wheat

requires a period of vernalization to form seed heads but not to develop

the grass itself.

And so what that means, I realize that's kind of a,

that's sort of a inside gardening term,

kind of a technicality terminology bit right there.

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