How to Grow SPROUTS at Home - Quick & Easy Harvest 🌱)

I'd love to grow my own food, but I don't have enough space. I'd grow my own food, but I just don't have any sun. I'd grow my own food, but it's too cold where I live. It's too hot where I live. I'm just too busy. Listen, I know it's not reasonable to think that all of us could have a vegetable garden in our backyard, but there is a food that all of us can grow no matter where we live, any time of year. In this video, I'm going to teach you four steps to grow the most delicious, nutritious, freshest food that money cannot buy. And you can grow it in such an easy way right on top of your kitchen counter. I have heard all your excuses, but after you watch this video, you're not going to have a single one left. So let's get into it. The first thing we need is a draining tray. So this is some kind of a straining, draining material. You want to have tiny little holes, tiny enough that water goes through, but not big enough that the seeds run through too. So we want this to catch the seeds, but let the water drain. At Gardnery, we have a stack of two straining trays that stack on top of one another. I've done this before. I grow like six different types of sprouts all at once, and I just keep stacking them one over the other. So once you've got your draining tray, the next thing that you need is a non-draining tray. And this is going to catch the water as it slowly comes off the seeds every time in between rinses. Then I like to have a top. This makes sure that I'm not exposing my sprouts to anything on the air that I don't want to. Then you only need two other things. This could not be simpler. So of course, you need some seeds to sprout. And in general, these are actually the same kinds of seeds that you use in the garden. You're just catching them much earlier in the germination process. So a great thing you can do is use old seeds. So seeds that have expired or you're no longer going to plant in your garden. If they're going to create a sprout that you would like to eat, this is a great way to use up your old seeds and not throw them away. In the Gardnery Sprouting Kit, we give you seed packages that have a lot more volume in them. This allows you to have several iterations, several times to plant each and every seed that you want to sprout. So my two favorites are broccoli and alfalfa. Broccoli sprouts are one of the best health hacks there is out there. So I'm going to show you how to grow these, but you need some seeds. And then the last thing you need is some water. So I'm not at my kitchen sink right now, but that's where I would be doing this normally. And it is as easy as just turning on your tap and then turning it off. So those are the only things you need to get started. A draining tray, a non-draining tray, a top, some seeds, and some water. And you're ready to become a sprout gardener. All right, I'm going to bring you through the five steps to grow your own sprouts at home. But just in case you want to go deeper, we offer all the steps inside our sprout system. In fact, there's a whole little course on how to grow your own sprouts at home when you get our sprouting kit. So you can check out all the details to go deeper on this right below this video. All right, step number one is just to soak your sprouts. So this is something I like to do right before I go to bed when I'm making my herbal tea. Before I head to bed every night, I can start a little new tray of sprouts. And I probably do this maybe once or twice a week. So you're going to take your seeds and you want to put a couple of tablespoons in the bottom of the tray. And this is going to go in your non-draining tray. Do not do this in the draining tray. You'll have a huge mess on your hands. So what we're doing at this point is just activating the seeds, getting them ready to sprout. And we just give them a soak overnight. So I'm going to use my hand as my tablespoon measurer. So I'm going to do one, two, three. So I'm going to do three tablespoons in this sprouter at once. And then we're just going to soak these in water overnight. So this can be filtered water. You want it to be a little bit lukewarm, not too cold. And you're literally just going to fill it up enough so that you know all the seeds get water. It doesn't need to be too much. And then you're just going to put the top on. So this is step one. I think it took, what, three seconds? I'm telling you, this is a no excuses kind of gardening. Everybody who tells me they can't garden, I'm like, you can grow sprouts. So put the top on, set this right next to your kitchen sink. That's the trick. Put it near the thing you're going to see first thing the next morning. So you don't forget about it. You don't want to over soak these. Just let them soak while you're sleeping. Next morning, you're ready for the next step. Step number two, 12 hours later, is to rinse your seeds. Super easy. I'm going to use this, but I honestly just do this all over my kitchen sink. Just rinse right over the drain. However, if you want to have really nutritious water that you can pour on your house plants out in the garden, this water where these seeds are soaking is actually super full of nutrients because the seed coating is breaking off, right? So all the nutrients that are in that seed coat are now in this water. Okay, so we're just going to take the top off. It has not been 12 hours since I soaked this. In general, these are going to look a little bit more swollen and you're going to start to see some of the seed coat coming off. So I just had to speed up time and do this all at once for you. But when you do it, you're going to see a little bit more change in the way the seeds look. Okay, so we're just going to pour this out onto the sprouter. And then you want to make sure that you've got all of the seeds out. Each and every one of these seeds becomes a sprout. So don't waste them. I'm going to use a little bit more water to get everything out of the non-draining tray, just like that. So it's completely empty. Then your job is to spread the seeds over the sprouter. So each and every one of these seeds is going to become a sprout. So we do want them to be as spread out as possible. It's impossible to get them completely spread out. I mean, I've found. Because they're wet, they're tiny, and they stick to you. But do your best just to get them so they're not all in a lump. And then we're going to rinse them. So this will be our first time to rinse. And it's the first of many times. And it's very complicated. It goes something like this. You take some water and you pour it over your seeds. I know, I know this is really high-level gardening here. But you can do it, OK? Just kidding. Don't mean to patronize you. But I just want you to realize this is so very easy. So give it a little rinse. And then this again, you've got your nice nutritious water you can use to water some plants. And shake it. Make sure it's covering as much of the surface area of the sprouter as possible. And then you put the top on. And you're ready for the next step. So step number three is just more of the same. You know how they say rinse and repeat? Well, that is literally what you're going to do with your sprouts. Every 12 hours, you're going to take the top off. You're going to rinse your sprouts again. Add a little bit of water on top. Make sure they're able to strain and drain. Put the top back on. And then come back the next 12 hours. I am not exact on every 12 hours. But if I keep that routine and rhythm, just when I go into the kitchen first thing in the morning, and let's be honest, that's kind of the first place almost all of us go. And then when I clean up the kitchen at the very end of the day, let's be honest, none of us want to do that. But we do. Then those are the two markers. Those are the time markers. And that, honestly, that's the secret to habits. I talk about this in my book, 5-Minute Gardener. If you haven't read it yet, you can get it right below this video. But in 5-Minute Gardener, I talk about this idea of habit stacking. And this is how you become a 5-Minute Gardener. It's how you work the garden into your life. It's things that you already do in your everyday life. You just tie something that's about the garden with it. So you're already in the kitchen. Why not rinse some sprouts? You're already cleaning up the kitchen. Why not rinse the sprouts one more time? It takes two to three seconds, not five minutes. And you're going to have so much delicious produce that you get to add to all your meals just from doing this little practice. After a few days, depending on what kinds of seeds you're sprouting, you're going to start to see your first sprout. It's so exciting. And that means you are ready to start step four. So let's skip ahead to that one. Ta-da! We have magically arrived at step number four. It has been seven whole days since we first soaked our seeds to sprout. And now the magic is waiting for us right underneath these sprouters. I cannot wait to show you what has happened. So in the first few days, the seeds started to sprout. And what happens when these seeds sprout is they start to grow from both sides. So the seeds start to sprout in both ways. They send a shoot up from the top, and then they start to send a root down to the bottom. And these things are tiny. I mean, look at them. Just a little bitty sprouts. These in particular are the alfalfa variety. So as these started to sprout, when I started to see both parts of the sprout happening, both the root and the shoot, it was time for me to put these sprouts under a little bit of light. So as I started to see these seeds create both roots and shoots, I knew it was time to open up the top of my sprouter and let these things get a little bit of light. Now you don't need a window. You don't need some artificial light. You just need to expose these to the everyday light of your home. So what I did on this day when the shoot started to appear is I opened up the top and exposed them to some light. And this is what happened. Check out these alfalfa sprouts. These are now seven days old and are definitely ready to be eaten. So after just giving them a few hours of exposure to light over the last two or three days, they've greened up really well and they are now definitely ready for one final rinse and a really delicious sprout sandwich, sprout omelet, or just a sprout salad. So if you recall in the video, we just put a couple of tablespoons of alfalfa sprouts in this container and I continued to spread it out as I rinsed them every single day using the water and sometimes my hands just to be sure that the seeds were completely dispersed throughout the container. And you can see if you look at the roots here on the container that they are pretty well evenly distributed. There are some places where it's a little heavier than others, but for the most part, each of these little roots and shoots got plenty of room to grow to their full potential as an organic sprout. Then we've got these green tops that are the most nutritious part of the sprout and definitely make it much more appealing both to the eye and to the taste buds. Remember at the beginning of the video when I said this was a food you could grow that money literally can't buy? Well, my team looked at me and was like, what do you mean, Nicole? I'm like, literally, you can't buy this. So getting sprouts that you can eat the minute that they are harvested is something that you literally can't find in any marketplace. It's impossible to buy sprouts that someone else grew for you and get to eat them the second after they're pulled. But you get to enjoy this magic and let me tell you, when they look like this, time is of the essence. You want to eat these sprouts the day that they start to green up and look this mature. So all you've got to do is get a little bit of water and do the same thing that you've been doing all this time. You're going to give your sprouts one final rinse, and then it's time to harvest them and turn them into a delicious dish. It's as simple as taking your hands. You could take some tongs if you wanted, but I just simply grab a few sprouts out of the tray, put them into a bowl, and then you get to decide how you want to use them. You can make a salad. You can make a sandwich. You can make an omelet. You can use this as garnish. You can put this on top of pasta. There's really no limits to the way that you can use these sprouts, and there is literally no limit to the nutrition you get from each and every one of these little bites. Want to know the coolest thing about sprouts? Every single one of these little sprouts contains all the nutrients that you get from the full mature harvest. So something like broccoli has been scientifically proven that if you eat the full heart of broccoli that takes months to grow in the garden, you get less nutrients than you get if you eat this tray of broccoli sprouts. So we all know that we need to eat better food, right? We all know that we need to fill up on more nutritious things. This is the way that all of us can do this every single day for pennies on the dollar. You cannot find a more nutritious food, and you cannot find an easier thing that you can grow yourself, but just a tray and some seeds and a little bit of water. You can take the easy track and just get the Gardnery Sprout System. We'll put a link to our entire kit right below this video. Growing sprouts is just one of the many practices I teach you in my new book, The Five Minute Gardener, because growing sprouts is definitely something all of us can do in less than five minutes a day. You can find the link to get my book, Five Minute Gardener, and a ton of bonuses right below this video. All right, this is the year we're going to all start growing a little bit of our own food. No space, no sun, no time, no problem. This is a food we all can grow, so share this video, tag a friend in the comment. Let's encourage each other to start living healthier lives and all becoming five-minute gardeners together. Don't forget to subscribe to the Gardnery channel and stick around. We have got tons of five-minute projects for you all year long. I'll see you next time.