Books on Sprouting and Microgreens

Sprouting, Wheatgrass and Microgreen Guide
Frances Michaels (AUS)
The Green Harvest Sprouting, Wheatgrass and Microgreen Guide is great value to get you started with your healthy benchtop gardening. The guide is a B5 sized 16 page full colour leaflet. FREE with an initial purchase of sprouting or microgreen seeds.

WS109

Download it for free: Green Harvest Sprouting Guide (518KB)

How Can I Grow and Use Sprouts as a Living Food?
Isabell Shipard 2005 (AUS)
A simply fantastic book on sprouting and health. Learn how to sprout and supply, by weight, the richest source of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants of all fresh food, in your own kitchen. Covering over 100 kinds of sprouting seeds, the best methods, nutritional and medicinal benefits, using sprouts with practical and simple recipes. 138 pp

BH108

How to Grow Microgreens: Nature’s Own Superfood
Fionna Hill 2010 (NZ)
Grow your own high-quality, fresh, nutritionally rich, quick, pest free and highly productive greens - raise microgreens! Here’s a way to add more flavour, colour and texture to your food even if you rent, are on water restrictions or have shady position or poor soil. Microgreens are larger than sprouts and smaller than baby salad greens; they are grown in soil or a soil substitute and much less seed is used than for sprouting. Microgreens take between 7 - 21 days to grow and are harvested by being snipped off, leaving the roots behind. You’ll be inspired by dozens of photos of lush, healthy greens grown in a huge variety of containers from eggshells to teacups to terracotta pots to bottles, pots and trays of all shapes and sizes. Includes profiles of twenty plants suitable for growing as microgreens, with nutritional values, best growing conditions, fabulous recipes, usage and storage suggestions for each. 107pp

BH123

Microgreens Growing Guide
Nutritious - Organic - Beautiful - Easy to Grow (AUS)
Microgreens are home-grown mini-greens: larger than sprouts and smaller than baby salad greens. They are classed as microgreens after they have produced at least two true leaves after the cotyledons (seed leaves) appear. Whereas sprouts are germinated seeds grown in dark, moist conditions and eaten whole, microgreens are grown in light, on soil or similar substrate and are harvested by cutting the stems, leaving the roots behind. Microgreens add flavour, colour, texture and nutrition to your food. They can be grown in pots, saucers, baskets, styrofoam boxes or in a garden bed. With just a few small containers you can have a range of vegetables it would take a large backyard to produce to full size and in a fraction of the time. This A4 sized, three fold, glossy cardboard guide shows how easy it is to grow microgreens. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the seed and leaves for each of the 28 microgreens described; each profile includes suggested uses, germination times, ideal growing conditions and more. Step-by-step guides to growing in soil and with the hydroponic method are illustrated with clear diagrams. Create a beautiful garden in your kitchen or on your balcony in only weeks!

BM111

Speedy Vegetable Garden
Mark Diacono and Lia Leendertz 2013 (UK)
Do you want tasty, nutritious vegetables in just a few days? This is the definitive guide to growing your own "fast food" such as sprouts, micro greens, small vegetable varieties, quick maturing cultivars and also includes sections on edible flowers and cut-and-come-again salad leaves.
Sprouted seeds are the fastest: you can have crunchy, tasty fenugreek or radish sprouts ready to toss in your salads in three to five days. Microgreens can be harvested in a few weeks: coriander, 14 days after planting; rocket and fennel in 10 days. In the vege garden, varieties covered include dwarf (bush) beans, zucchini and cherry tomatoes.
Growing in the house, in pots or compact bush varieties allows anyone in any space to grow some fresh food. Especially useful book for the Australian challenges of drought and wet season fresh green production with more than 50 quick crops highlighted. Includes complete information on how to sow, grow, harvest and prepare each plant. Although a UK publication this is the book we would have written! 208pp.

BS140

Sprout Garden: Indoor Grower's Guide to Gourmet Sprouts
Mark M. Braunstein 1999 (USA)
Sprouts and microgreens are nutritious, economical, tasty, quick and easy to grow. Here’s how to grow more than 50 kinds of sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen, from broccoli and alfalfa to snowpea greens and wheatgrass. You can grow your sprouts in jars, bags, saucers, towels, and trays; raise advanced sprouts or microgreens on soil or grow your own wheatgrass for juicing. There are step-by-step and day-by-day instructions for sprouting and profiles of dozens of different sprouting seeds including some less common ones such as quinoa and amaranth. Top this off with some 'radicle' recipes and you have an excellent handbook for the novice sprouter or veteran microgreen gardener. 144pp

BS132

Sprouting Dial Chart
Everything you need to know about sprouts. Use the wheel to dial up your favourite variety, you'll find step by step instructions on growing methods, required seeds amounts, days to maturity plus info on taste, usage, health benefits, nutritional data and recipes. 37 full colour photos.

BS121

BS130 minimum 6 per order

Special offer: this chart is included in the Sprouting Kit.

Sprouts and Sprouting
The Complete Guide, With Seventy Healthy And Creative Recipes
Valérie Cupillard 2007 (France / UK)
A serving of sprouts with a meal will breathe fresh life into your daily eating! The focus of this beautifully illustrated book is an inspiring range of recipes using sprouts, with an accent on raw nutrition and flavour. Most of the recipes are vegan and gluten-free: try Pine kernel and sunflower sprout mousse; Ratatouille and sprouted wheat or Tomato soup with red lentil sprouts.
There are basic sprouting instructions and brief profiles of a range of sprouting seeds, as well as more detailed sprouting instructions for alfalfa, fenugreek, hulled sunflower seed, lentils and quinoa. Some of the seasonal advice on sprouting relates to the northern hemisphere. Colour photographs throughout.119pp

BS133