This morning I noticed the sun sparkling on the intense red colour of these microgreens. I also noticed how the plants have this intense colour as soon as the seeds starts to grow.
These are beetroot microgreens.
Growing this different variety of microgreens is all part of our continuing development of this harvest. Demand for our microgreens continues to rise so we thought we would try out some new varieties. Beetroot grow much slower than our normal radish plants but they look and taste good. Given the intensity of their colour only a small amount needs to be mixed in with the radish plants to make a very interesting looking mixture which I think is delicious.
I call this 'the microgreen field' which is in our nursery. Putting out the trays here takes up a lot of nursery space. With rising demand we've either got to create a new nursery or find better ways to grow them using the existing space.
Our latest idea is to grow the trays of plants on shelves as in this picture. This is our first experiment with this method and so far seems to be working fairly well. Although we think we will need artificial lights and to re-engineer the misting system to make them grow more evenly.
With the monsoon coming and the nursery being a nice dry place to work we've chosen the right time to carry out such experiments.
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