Microgreens: Grow Nutritious Microgreens and Sprouts Indoors on a Windowsill, Shelf or Countertop

On a dull January afternoon, when the garden has nothing to say for itself, a seed tray on the kitchen windowsill earns its keep. Scatter radish seed over damp compost on a Saturday and, a week or two later, you can be snipping a dense little forest of seedlings into a sandwich. Real food, grown from seed, in about the time it takes a bag of supermarket salad to go slimy in the fridge.

This is a practical guide to growing microgreens, shoots and sprouts indoors on a windowsill, a shelf or ...