How to Grow Microgreens: A Beginner’s 101 Guide
Not eating–or growing–microgreens yet? Then you’re missing out on a seriously easy way to increase your nutrient intake. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Maryland found that leaves from microgreens had more nutrients than the mature leaves of the same plants, and often have intense flavor too. Better yet? You can grow your own microgreens. Let’s take a look at what they are and how you can introduce them to your own garden…and diet.
What are microgreens?
Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.
In Britain, "digging for victory" used much land such as waste ground, railway edges, ornamental gardens and lawns, while sports fields and golf courses were requisitioned for farming or vegetable growing. Sometimes a sports field was left as it was but used for sheep-grazing instead of being mown.
In the UK, they call backyards "gardens".
Is it coming around again?
I also warned years ago that Gibraltarians need to grow food in every square inch of garden and piece of soil, including in window-boxes, because every morsel of food is currently IMPORTED, and thus leaves Gibraltarians extremely vulnerable to starvation, like the Palestinians. - https://gibraltar-messenger.net/letters/preparing-for-war/