Growing Wheatgrass at Home Step 3 of 3

 

	Calculating Trays: Okay, down to the home stretch. These little illustrations that I put together here using my trusty Xara Graphics program – a little plug for my affiliate – are to help me explain how to determine the amount of berries to use for a tray of a certain size. For those of you who are mathematically inclined it will be easy. For the rest of us, it takes effort. I will try to explain it, in a way, that won't take more effort than needed. I'm basing this  calculation on trays that are 32 x 53 cm which equals 1696 sq cm (you can convert to inches for free online at: [This is a small, free program For windows:  http://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/ Right on the internet, no program to download.:  http://www.unitconverters.net/ http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/]

So you have 1696 sq cm and you use 300 grams of wheat berries. In order to calculate your needs, and I would recommend that you get as close to this size as possible, for convenience sake, you measure two sides of the tray (i.e. 26 cm x 37 cm = 962) and you multiply them together. That gives you a dimension of 962 cm sq. Since the 300g of grains are based on 1696 cm sq you have to divide 962, the total square centimetres of your trays, by 1696 the total square centimetres of the tray that takes 300g of grain. In this case that will give us .56. Since that represents a percentage of the 300g of grain, we just have to multiply the 300g by .56 = that equals 168g of grains for your trays. You can round that up to 170g of course. Next!

	Getting your hands dirty: Now, you place good black earth on the tray or trays you are going to use. Stretch it to the edges. Then place the germinated sprouts on top of that, going a quarter to one half inch to the side. Suzanne sprays this with algae – maybe she will let us in on her secret? – and then waters them, till the water shows on the sides.  This is done one or two times a day, depending on your availability and the needs of the plant. You should have a seven inch plant, in about 7 days. 17.78 cm just doesn’t have the poetry as does seven inches, I don’t feel. Now you are ready to use it. Be sure to cut the grass as close to the soil as possible, because that is where a

lot of the chlorophyll, and other important juice, are found, don’t miss it. You will have to have a very good juicer if you plan to turn it into juice. If you have questions on what types of juicers there are out there, or anything else in which I have knowledge,  contact me. You can reach me at my new contact page: This is the whole address: http://brians-place.hostwebs.com/briscontactpage.htm This is the tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/bris-place to make it easier to write down, if need be. Hope this little article has been helpful. If you have any other subjects that you’d like me to address, I take suggestions, and give them consideration… I wish you all great love, Sat Nam, same thing, kinda. - bri Sorry, Blogger doesn't support file uploads Please: 1) Change to a different blog provider, then; 2) Save the draft 3) Change to HTML view, then back to the view you were on. Your files will be ready to upload then.

 

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