Curly sunflower greens

[Norvegen]

On google images the sunflower greens looks straight and tall, but my sunflower greens always end up crawling along the soil before curling upwards in between each other.. also they don't grow to the same height, but that maybe from the horizontal crawling..
Makes me almost have to harvest them one by one...

Am I doing something wrong or is it just bad quality seeds?

This also goes for my buckwheat greens to some degree, not curly like the sunflowers, but they grow to different heights.. can I blame the seeds or do I have to blame myself?

Pea shoots grow just fine, straight and tall... =o)

Just started growing popcorn greens... any suggestion to other greens I can try?

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

On google images the sunflower greens looks straight and tall, but my sunflower greens always end up crawling along the soil before curling upwards in between each other.. also they don't grow to the same height,

Try covering the sunflower seeds with a thin sprinkling of soil over the top of them, place a sheet over plastic over the tray and put something light (newspaper) over the plastic covering. This should put some pressure on the sunflower seeds and get them to grow straight.

Am I doing something wrong or is it just bad quality seeds?

Seeds sound good.

This also goes for my buckwheat greens to some degree, not curly like the sunflowers, but they grow to different heights.. can I blame the seeds or do I have to blame myself?

Sunflower and Buckwheat always have uneven sprouting rates. lt's inconvenient but worth the hassle.

Just started growing popcorn greens... any suggestion to other greens I can try?

They are the main ones l think, but you could also try growing: wheatgrass, ryegrass and barleygrass.

l hear that sprouting watermellon seeds on soil is good too (27 - 39)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zdq...21&playnext=17

[DebB]

I soak my seeds overnight, then I sprout them until small tails grow. That's when I plant them in my tray on top of the dirt. Now I take another tray and place it over the top of the planted tray. I weight this down with little containers of water evenly dispersed.

I put this in a dark place for 3 days, spraying the sunflower seeds daily and then reweighting them again. By the third day - the greens will be pushing up the weighted tray. Now I remove the top tray and place them in indirect bright sunlight.

They grown straight and tall. I learned this from a Renegade Health YouTube video when they showed doing this way at Gabriel Cousens' retreat in AZ. *Ü*

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

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[amanda]

Yum... I need to start sprouting. Had some delicious sprouts the other day at Macy's Skyroom salad bar in Mpls.

[Norvegen]

Pressure sounds logical the more I think about it... will try this next time!


As for other greens, I already grow wheatgrass.... my popcorn greens really took a shot during the night (no pun intended) so I had to taste this morning.. tasted almost like grass...