Gardening: Harvesting a Crunchy Bean Sprout Salad in The Winter

It can be hard to find fresh local salad in the dead of winter. In just few days with little or no light you can grow sprouts as a highly nutritious alternative. Of course they're not only for Winter, sprouts can be enjoyed any time of the year.

All you need are sprouting seeds, a mason jar with a screen instead of the lid, water, and two sprout rinse sessions a day. Almost any sprout-able, edible, vegetable seed, bean, or grain will do.

I'm trying out Mumm's Sprouting Seeds, the Crunchy Bean Mix: Peas, lentils, garbanzo beans.

Four Tablespoons of Sprouting Seed Mix go into the Sprouting Jar. The jar is filled with water to just above the seeds, gently swirled, then emptied.

Fill the jar 3/4 with water, the seeds will soak up a lot of water in this soaking stage, soak for 6 to 12 hours.

Empty the water out of the jar through the screen. Leave the jar upside down, at an angle in a bowl so any left over water can drain.

Twice a day the jar needs to be filled with water, the sprouts gently swirled, emptied then left upside down in the bowl.

After a few days there is a plate full of sprouts.

These sprouts are ready to eat by the handful, as a side, on a salad, on a sandwich, in a wrap, in a stir fry, in a soup, or in many other dishes.

I'll put these sprouts in the fridge to keep them fresh for later.

Here's a link to the Post about when I received the Sprout Seeds:

https://steemit.com/gardening/@jackdub/gardening-seeds-for-sprouting-seeds-for-the-garden-seeds-for-eating-seeds-for-life

Have a great day! :)