Let’s get this on the table right away. Micro-greens are not spouts. What they really are, are the starts of vegetables. That is to say, the immature growth of plants with leaves and a root system. The key to micro-greens is that the tiny plants are harvested after they have grown for some time but have not reached full growth. This is usually in the range of just a few weeks and micro-green farming is growing just as fast as those tiny shoots that get snipped and tossed into salads. What … [Read more...]
Profitable Cash Crops You Can Grow At Home
There is a huge demand for various crops that you can grow at home to earn an extra income. There are six specific profitable cash crops that are ideal for backyard growers and they include the following: Salad greens - The top earning salad greens you can grow for profit include lettuce, arugula and Asian greens. Start up costs would include seeds which will run between $30 and $150 per pound and a pound of these seeds will cover an area between 1,500 and 10,000 square feet. So, if you were … [Read more...]
Growing Microgreens For Profit
What if I told you that there is a plant growing business that will cost just a few hundred dollars to start, will take up as little space as a tabletop and can produce upwards of twenty crops a year? Do you think you’d be interested ? Here’s the basics about these profitable plants: The ‘new’ trend is growing what are called microgreens. Microgreens are basically tiny edible plants that are somewhere between spouts and fully grown plants. Think immature plant, if you must, but that’s what … [Read more...]