Growing wheatgrass is very simple process that does not require neither special tools, knowledge or extensive efforts.
If you plant wheat seeds in soil, water it and wait, wheatgrass will grow. This process assumes that wheat seeds will germinate under the soil, and the growing will follow.
In order to speed up and help the process, it is always better to produce wheat sprouts and to plant sprouts instead of seeds. This will shorten production process for at least 7-10 days, or even more.
The following process shows how to plant prepared wheat sprouts, and details of how to produce wheat sprouts is explained here.
For planting you can use any kind of tray. I use this plastic trays sized 20 x 26 cm, 6 cm deep. (about 7x10 in, 2,5 in deep). It is important to have draining holes at the bottom.
Put organic compost or potting soil in prepared trays. About 2-5cm is enoug.
Flatten soil and gently spread wheat sprouts as even as possible. Sprouts can overlap, do not spare them. Even 1 cm width of sprout layer is OK. Try to cover all the soil with sprouts.
it sometimes helps if you gently push them down into soil, just be careful not to damage gentle sprouts.
After this, cover the sprouts with thin layer of soil. You do not need much soil, just enough to cover the sprouts. You need no more than 5-10mm of soil.
You can find in various sources on Internet that people do not cover sprouts with soil, but with some cloth or even worse with old newspapers. I would not recommend that, especially not with newspapers since they contain lead. You can be open to experiments, but I do stick to covering with soil, giving more natural environment for developing wheatgrass.
Now, the process of planting is over, and you can put your trays aside. Choose some dark peaceful corner in your home, water it regularly and wait for wheatgrass to grow.
Watering of the planted wheat should be done once to twice a day, depending on outside temperature. In the morning you need to make the soil wet (just wet, not muddy), and in the evening just check and spray just a little water if the soil looks dry.
In order to keep soil from premature drying, and to keep lower amount of light, I do recommend to use any kind of cardboard boxes to cover trays.
The day after, you will notice young plants growing from your soil:
third day, you could expect grass to grow more evenly
Tip: Keeping trays covered (as I recommended with cardboard boxes) while grass is growing helps in the way that the grass will grow faster in order to reach the light, and the weight of the cover will help grass to develop stronger leafs.
Few days later, the grass will grow enough to lift the cover above the tray.
That's good time to let it grow uncovered,
and to put it in a sunny place in your home.
Choose a place with a lot of indirect sunlight. (somewhere in the corner, near the window, but keep your plants away from direct sunlight, specially in the summer)
As you can notice, wheatgrass is rather yellow at this time,
but do not worry. Very soon, the same day or latest tomorrow, it will create enough chlorophyll and turn into nice green.
In winter or on cloudy days, it is always a help if you can provide artificial light source, but choose light bulbs that simulate daylight (any of significant brands offer special bulbs that stimulate growth of plants).
and you will get nice green wheatgrass.
From day to day you can see it growing.
You can leave it growing as long as it looks healthy and fresh.
When wheatgrass reaches 12-15cm height, you can start making your wheatgrass juice.
If you notice one day that green is getting yellowish, it means that the grass used all the food from the soil and that you need to cut it and make juice as soon as possible.
If you plant wheat seeds in soil, water it and wait, wheatgrass will grow. This process assumes that wheat seeds will germinate under the soil, and the growing will follow.
In order to speed up and help the process, it is always better to produce wheat sprouts and to plant sprouts instead of seeds. This will shorten production process for at least 7-10 days, or even more.
The following process shows how to plant prepared wheat sprouts, and details of how to produce wheat sprouts is explained here.
There are various methods to grow wheatgrass without soil, but I believe that the soil is essential source for nutrition minerals for our wheatgrass, so this method is based on planting in soil (organic compost or potting soil), in order to get more of nutrition quality in our wheatgrass.
For planting you can use any kind of tray. I use this plastic trays sized 20 x 26 cm, 6 cm deep. (about 7x10 in, 2,5 in deep). It is important to have draining holes at the bottom.
You'll also need a kind of tray to collect drained water from soil.
Put organic compost or potting soil in prepared trays. About 2-5cm is enoug.
try to spread soil as flat as possible, and make it wet. Soil should be wet, not turned into mud.
Flatten soil and gently spread wheat sprouts as even as possible. Sprouts can overlap, do not spare them. Even 1 cm width of sprout layer is OK. Try to cover all the soil with sprouts.
it sometimes helps if you gently push them down into soil, just be careful not to damage gentle sprouts.
After this, cover the sprouts with thin layer of soil. You do not need much soil, just enough to cover the sprouts. You need no more than 5-10mm of soil.
Now, the process of planting is over, and you can put your trays aside. Choose some dark peaceful corner in your home, water it regularly and wait for wheatgrass to grow.
Watering of the planted wheat should be done once to twice a day, depending on outside temperature. In the morning you need to make the soil wet (just wet, not muddy), and in the evening just check and spray just a little water if the soil looks dry.
In order to keep soil from premature drying, and to keep lower amount of light, I do recommend to use any kind of cardboard boxes to cover trays.
Few days later, the grass will grow enough to lift the cover above the tray.
That's good time to let it grow uncovered,
and to put it in a sunny place in your home.
As you can notice, wheatgrass is rather yellow at this time,
but do not worry. Very soon, the same day or latest tomorrow, it will create enough chlorophyll and turn into nice green.
and you will get nice green wheatgrass.
From day to day you can see it growing.
You can leave it growing as long as it looks healthy and fresh.
When wheatgrass reaches 12-15cm height, you can start making your wheatgrass juice.
If you notice one day that green is getting yellowish, it means that the grass used all the food from the soil and that you need to cut it and make juice as soon as possible.
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