Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening Quotes

“In broad strokes a recap of the process goes like this: • Soak your seeds and pour water into your soil mix to moisten. • After at least 6 hours of soaking, the seeds are ready to plant. • Fill your trays with compost, sea kelp, and moistened soil mix. • Drain the seeds, and spread them over the surface of the soil so they just touch but do not overlap. • Place a soaked paper cover over the seeds, and place the tray in a warm, dark place for at least 4 days (shoots will grow to about 1 inch [2.5 cm] high). • Remove paper cover, water the roots, and place the tray on a windowsill. • Water once a day until greens are ready to harvest, about 4 to 6 more days. • Harvest by cutting with scissors or a knife. • Serve in a salad, a sandwich, or a wrap, or use in a stir-fry.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

“Make sure you get a mix of peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite, not just peat moss alone. Some have added limestone and that is OK, but don’t buy a mix that has added fertilizer or anything to retain moisture. These are usually chemicals, and we don’t want them and don’t need them for indoor gardening. Any compost will work, but this brand, available to me locally, is a premium mix of organic materials.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

“Most potting soil or germination mixes work fine. The things you do not want in your potting mix are any hydro-gels (silicone pellets) that retain water in a container. Those are meant for flower pots and should not be used for growing food. Also stay away from the mixes that contain chemical fertilizers, whether slow-release or otherwise. I add my own organic fertilizers at the time of planting.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

“To get the particular yield I want, I plant five trays a day, one each of the most popular seeds: sunflower, radish, buckwheat, pea, and broccoli. I add two trays of peas once a week for a family favorite—stir-fry with pea shoots, mushrooms, and garlic. If it’s winter and I want more greens, I add a few trays of sunflower or I add more seed varieties like purple kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, or Hong Vit radish. These adjustments are easy to make when I have to plan only 10 days in advance.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

“Where I usually plant seeds in the soil outdoors, for soil sprouts I scatter the seeds on top of the soil indoors. In my outdoor garden seeds are planted in carefully spaced patterns. For my indoor garden’s soil sprouts I spread the soaked seeds on top of the soil so close together that the seeds touch.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

“found that a simple potting soil mix, augmented with small amounts of compost and dried seaweed meal or liquid sea kelp, is all that soil sprouts need to flourish.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

“As we struggle to find ways to change course from a consumer society to a sustainable society, here is one small step we all can make and be rewarded for the effort.”
― Peter Burke, Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days