They’re alive!!!

Our very own, home grown alfalfa sprouts!

Steven’s parents set us a sprouter for our anniversary, and four different seeds to try – (from left to right below) mung bean, 5 part salad mix, bean salad, and alfalfa. We decided to try alfalfa first, since it is the sprout with which we are most familiar.

The kit has 5 containers – a basin on the bottom for collecting water, 3 trays in the middle for growing sprouts, and a container on top for putting water in. You can use the three trays in the middle all at once – to grow three different kinds of seeds, a bunch of the same kinds of seeds, or seeds at different stages (so you’ll always have fresh ones!) – or you can just use one or two trays. Since this is our first try, we just used one tray, and decided to see how it went.

Day 1:

You take the top container off, and put a tablespoon of seeds in the seed container, then put water in the top container until it is filled 1/2″ to the edge of the top. You put the top container on, and the water in it drips down into the seed container. The little white cap in the seed container siphons the water into the bottom basin. You empty the bottom basin when all the water has gone through the seed container.

You repeat this “rinsing” process 2 times a day until the sprouts are ready. The instructions said it would take 3-5 days, but it took us a bit longer.

Day 3:

I thought they looked kind of wormy on day 3.

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6:

It was so fun to come home each day and see how much the sprouts had grown!

I rinsed them off yesterday, dried them, and put them in a little baggie in the fridge. They taste just like the ones from Jimmy John’s!

We’ll probably eat them on a sandwich today! And I already started some more last night!

The finished product!