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Greens Basics Seed to Green in 5 - 14 Days Yield = 1:1 to 3:1 Seed Shelf Life at 70° = 2 - 5 years Greens Shelf Life = 1 week Nutritional info: Vitamins A, B, C, E and K Calcium, Chlorophyll, Iron, Lecithin, Magnesium, Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus, Potassium Amino Acids Trace Elements Protein: up to 30% More Greens Info Greens Descriptions Greens Recipes Greens Kits & Samplers Sprouters for Growing Greens Sprout School & Shop Learn to grow & shop as you go Sprouting Seed Info Center Our Most Popular Items All-Time Customer Favorites: Seeds, Sprouters, Kits & More! Leafy Sprouts Alfalfa, Clover & Sproutpeople's Famous Gourmet Blends! Bean Sprouts Mung, Lentils, Peas and many more! Brassica Sprouts Broccoli, Cabbage, Radish & lots more. Grains Wheat, Barley, Rye and much more! Nuts/Seeds Almond, Peanut, Pumpkin, Sunflower.. Alliums Garlic & Onion Exotic & Bizarre Fenugreek and Our Strangest Mixes. Grass Wheat, Cat, Barley and more. 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Hull Removal Storing your Sprouts Sprouting Device Care Sprouting on the Road Everything Else Kid's SproutZone Grow some Knowledge Food Safety Center Sprouts ARE Safe! Nutrition in Sprouts Who We Are/What We Want Downloadable Stuff Documents & Desktop Pics! Sproutpeople Site & Policies How to get around sproutpeople.com Shipping, Returns & Your Privacy. Sproutpeople Home Choose an Item below to learn everything about that Item! Add any items to your shopping cart by clicking the Add to Cart Button. Sprouts are eaten root and all - Green's roots are buried in something (soil or some moisture holding medium) so we don't eat them. Greens are just a plant which grows vertically and which we harvest by cutting it close to it's base. We have grown Greens - on soil - in Trays, for years. But, we now have alternatives: Soilless mediums (Baby Blanket and Vermiculite) and organic liquid kelp fertilizer (Kelp Fertilizer). Baby Blanket is a thin organic material that holds moisture and in general acts much like soil. Vermiculite is an amazingly water retentive medium made by heat treating a unique mica. We think you should try them all; Vermiculite, Baby Blanket and soil if you can - there are differences and you may prefer one method over the other and the only way to know for sure is to try them all. The most famous of the Greens is Sunflower. Often called Sunnys, they are a staple of Ann Wigmore's living diet - they are very nutritious (as is everything in sproutville), amazingly tasty, tender and beautiful too! Sunnys require a bit more work than other Greens, but they are well worth the effort. Greens are a good deal different than Sprouts - they are really gorgeous, but they are a bit more work. For that reason we suggest that you start with Sprouts if you are new to all of this, but it's your life, don't let us push you around. Many more seeds than are listed here can be grown into Greens. Among the obvious choices are Lentils and Garbanzos which both produce beautiful tasty plants. For now we just list those we have grown and sold for years, but as we always say - think for yourself. Experiment! If you are looking for Micro-Greens come visit our Micro-Greens page. Greens All of the seeds on this page are supplied by sources Certified Organic. Buckwheat Lettuce Whole. In Hull.   These Greens which are often called Buckwheat Lettuce, are sprouted (as are almost all Greens) for a couple days (a 1/4 inch sprout is optimal), then planted on soil or similar medium, kept moist for 5 - 7 days to produce a very tender thin shoots with cute, and outragiously tender leaves and red tinged stems. Very easy to grow. Read this disclaimer before ordering. Mesclun Mix Sprout Salad Buckwheat Lettuce, Mustard, Radish, Mizuna, Tatsoi, Cabbage, Cress and Arugula The trend on the gourmet side of the sprout industry is towards Baby Greens. Mesclun Mix Sprout Salad is a wonderful tasting combination with a great, light texture and striking visual appeal. It is a salad or a salad topping, a sandwich addition, a mix-in for pasta or anything else you can think of - and it is super nutritious as all live/raw foods are. Pea Shoots Snow or Other Good Shoot Producing Pea Grown from virtually any Pea variety, Shoots are the plant above the soil. They produce a robust, tender Shoot in 8 - 14 days (depending on your climate and time of year). Really excellent stir-fried quickly with some garlic and tamari (soy sauce) and (optionally) ginger. Note: You can grow shoots from any pea. They all have different characteristics so experiment. Popcorn Shoots Red Popcorn Used for many years in European cuisine, Popcorn Shoots are rapidly gaining popularity in fine US restraunts. The shoots are amazingly sweet! They are most tender when light is withheld - this is called Blanching. Popcorn Shoots are not for everyone. They are easy to grow but their sweetness is intense. They are very cool looking and make a garnish for any dish! NOTE: The Popcorn we are selling is "treated" with Diatomaceous Earth, which is an approved organic pest control. The D.E. is powder, so the bags don't look so great, but there are no insects and the Corn Shoots are as good as ever. Spicy Salad Greens Daikon Radish, Cress, Arugula An exceptionally tasty and aromatic mix. A beautiful gourmet addition to salads - just scatter a small bunch on top. This one works well grown on soil, Baby Blanket, a thoroughly moistened Hemp Bag or the ultimate Micro-Greens device, the Miniature Garden. Sunflower Greens Black Oil Sunflower - in shell Greens grown from Sunflowers are surprisingly delicious. If you you don't feel you know us well enough to believe it, just look under your bird feeder in summertime for a sorta thick stemmed plant about 4-6"" tall, with 2 leaves on top. Pick it off above the soil and eat it stem and leaves..... See? Great aren't they? See Crop Note Print our Greens List Greens Kits, Samplers + Stuff You need certain things to grow Greens, so though we'd like you to look around our shop, we thought we'd list a few of those things (and combinations of those things - aka Kits) here for those of you who hate to browse or gotta get a move on. Beginner's Grass + Greens Bundle Now Soil Free! Contents: 8-Crop Tray Set (One 11 x 22 inch Solid Plastic Drip Tray and Sixteen 5 x 5 inch Plastic Trays with drainage) (you plant in 8 and use the other 8 as covers), Baby Blanket (soilless planting medium) pre-cut (8 pieces), 4 ounces of Kelp Fertilizer (concentrated kelp fertilizer - this little bottle makes up to 25 quarts fo fertilizer!), Plastic Spray Bottle, and 8 Single Harvest Packs of seed: Greens: Buckwheat Lettuce, Pea Shoots, Spicy Salad Greens, Sunflower Greens, Grasses: Barley, Kat, Oat and Wheat Greens are seeds which are sprouted for a day or two and then spread atop moist soil or a soilless medium (Baby Blanket) and grown into plants which are harvested by cutting at the base of the grown plant - about a week after planting. They are used on salads, sandwiches or as a snack. Grasses are grown the same way, but are usually juiced (using either an extracting or masticating juicer) but can also be used as a center piece on a table in addition to the suggestions above. This is a great way to see if you like growing and eating these plants. It takes a bit more work than sprouts, but it opens up a whole world of possibility. Give it a try! Greens Sampler Single Harvest packs of: Buckwheat Lettuce, Mesclun Mix, Pea Shoots, Spicy Salad and Sunflower Greens Learn about growing Greens and which you like best. Earthworm Castings Earthworm Castings are a necessary ingredient in the growing of Sunflower Greens. They offer more nitrogen to the growing plants which dramatically improves the quality of the crop - the Sunnys grow more rapidly, more evenly and shed their hulls more readily. Use no more than 30% worm castings in your soil or the high nitrogen content will "burn" your plants. Sprouting Devices for Greens Follow links for detailed information Trays This is the way we grow big Greens. Sprout your seed ("pre-sprout") - then spread it on thoroughly moistened soil or Baby Blanket or Vermiculite in one of the several Trays we offer, cover the Tray for a few days and when it's time, un-cover and green your Greens. Just keep it moist. there is nothing to it! Visit our Tray page for information and purchase. Supplies For Baby Blanket, Vermiculite, Kelp Fertilizer, Spray Bottles and Earthworm Castings, visit our Odds & Ends page. Visit our Odds & Ends page for information and purchase. Sprouters for Pre-Sprouting Easy Sprout Our most popular sprouter, it is also our personal favorite. Great drainage and the best air-circulation of any sprouter. Won't grow Greens but a great choice for pre-sprouting! SproutMaster The greatest tray sprouter ever. Stackable - add trays to build your own sprout skyscraper. Excellent drainage. Very versatile. You can theoretically grow Greens without soil in these, and though it isn't a great method - it can be done. Hemp Bag An excellent pre-sprouter for Greens growers! Superior drainage and air-circulation. Jar and Lid The least expensive, most basic pre-sprouter. Less air-circulation and drainage than other sprouters but perfect for pre-sprouting all seeds - especially Sunflowers! Visit Jar & Lid page for information and purchase Tube with Lids Very good drainage and exceptional air-circulation. Comes with 3 screen lids and 1 solid lid. For pre-sprouting only - can not grow Greens! See Tube page for details. Bio-Set A low rinse tray sprouter with 3 growing tiers. Less air-circulation and drainage than other sprouters, but quite popular despite our review (we hate it). Fine for big seeds and very attractive. A pretty good choice for pre-sprouting, Bio-Set can also grow Radish Greens pretty well - without soil. Sprout Cookery Follow links for recipes Raw Sprout Slaw Sprout Greens and Salad Eat 'em Raw Cooked Pea Shoot or Sunny Stir-Fry Search    Search Sproutpeople's Organic Sprout Wonderland        powered by FreeFind   Join Sproutpeople's eGroup Ask Questions. Share your knowledge. Powered by the friendly folks at www.egroups.com Home PageSeed Info CenterSprouting Device Info Center The Basics of SproutingSprout Cookery Sprout Kits Seed SamplersGift Shop Book & Music Shop TestimonialsSprout & Sprouting Help E-Mail Sproutpeople ©1993-Today SPROUTPEOPLE® 170 Mendell St. San Francisco, CA 94124 Toll Free: 877/777-6887 (877/SPROUTS) We only use the phone for emergencies. Back in 2001 we were still using the phone. One day I was talking to a long-time customer while pushing my (then 4 year old) daughter on the swing in our backyard (this is what a mom n' pop business is like on the internet). It dawned on me that my priorities were severely messed up, so I stopped using the phone. I love to talk and I love to help, but my family would never see me if I picked up the phone again, and that's just wrong don't you think?! The very best way to contact us is through E-mail =:-) We are quite fast and VERY thorough. We love to help. We have been an internet only business since 2001. We are not a big corporation. We are but 2 people, Mom n' Pop Sprout. We decided after years of juggling our family's (kids, dogs, cats and even our own) needs, and the needs of Sproutpeople, that we had to make more time for our kids, so we stopped talking on the phone. All calls go to voice mail and have since 2001. We are very fast to fill orders and answer e-mail, and though we wish we could make the time to talk, we just can't seem to get more minutes into a each hour. We are many years older than when we started and our days are too short and made up of too few hours to do everything. This limitation in our business has not kept us from pleasing our customers, nor from growing (as we have every year since 1993). We do what we do as well as we can, and we think we do it very well indeed. We appreciate your patronage more than we can say. We ask that you use the phone for emergencies only and that you search our site for answers before e-mailing us. This site is bigger than any 4 sprout books put together, it is always available and it is free, and we know that almost all questions are answered here. Thanks again for your support and your many kind words. Sproutpeople greeens. sunflower greens. buckwhest lettuce. pea shoots. Greens are easy Greens are good Eat your greens you really should.