Sprouts The Miracle Food: The Complete Guide to Sprouting (Paperback)
by Steve Meyerowitz, et al (Paperback - July 1998)
Warren Taylor: A good reference is the Steve Meyerowitz book, Sprouts The Miracle Food, which describes the low calorie and high nutritional profiles of sprouts grown in the home, using water only. In almost all cases, sprouts will surpass any food found on the grocer's shelf.
Sprouters have the freshest, most nutritious, tasty, economical, and pesticide-free harvests possible. Our food is unpolluted, nutrition-packed, delicious, and very low cost.
Sprouts grow great no matter where you live.
One of the nicest items that I have to report,
(esp. for other sprouters) is that it is possible
to tend to your sprouts only once per day, regardless
of the season of year, or how hot it gets. I happen
to live in one of the hottest climates in S. Calif,
where the temperature goes above 90 deg F, and
sometimes above 100 up to 110. And I leave my windows
closed in the summer, so temperatures could exceed
120 deg in my residence. Yet I water my sprouts only
once a day!
And my sprouts do very well: no spoilage, on once a day.
One can ignore the information in the sprouting
literature about twice-a-day rinsing. This guidance
is written for novices, by seed sellers, who
wanted to guarantee that new people could not fail.
Experienced sprouters (who understand sprouting - like
you and me) can get away with watering once a day.
Sprout books say to rinse and water twice a day.
This is not necessary for experienced sprouters.
If you rinse well once a day, they will do just
as well, and flourish with no spoilage.
I grow all kinds of sprouts incidentally. No
matter what seed is being discussed, rinsing
only once a day works just fine. They all do well.
If for some reason, the once-a-day method does
not work well for you, then contact me off-list,
and I will give some additional hints. Hints
probably won't be necessary, and you'll be very
happy with your results. And very happy to
reduce your work-load by at least half.
