Already Growing Wheatgrass? Grow Buckwheat Lettuce Too!

If you are already growing Wheatgrass at home, you should try to grow buckwheat as well. You don't need to buy anything else except the buckwheat seeds, and it grows pretty much the same way as wheatgrass. Here's what you need to do to grow easy buckwheat lettuce:

1. Soak the seeds for 10-12 hours.
   
2. Drain the water out and pre-sprout them the same way as you grow wheatgrass. If you haven't grown wheatgrass, take a look at these instructions.
3. Rinse the buckwheat seeds twice a day, until little roots come out--usually after 1 day
   
4. Put the seeds on soil just like you do with wheatgrass. Water twice a day, and after a week or so, they will be 4-6 inches tall and ready to eat. Cut them just above the roots and they are good to go.

Ready to eat Buckwheat Greens





Unhulled Hulled Buckwheat Seeds

Hulled Buckwheat Seeds

Buckwheat greens are great raw in salads, or you can juice them or toss them in with other things in the blender.  People have known about their health secrets for a long time. You can also add them to other healthy recipes like salads to make them even better.

*** Make sure you buy the Unhulled buckwheat seeds to grow this way. (see pictures above)***
You can also sprout hulled buckwheat seeds and eat the sprouts when they are an inch or so long. You don't plant this kind in the soil. Good Luck!

The story of Kamut

Anybody who shops in health food stores has undoubtedly come across the word "Kamut"
in everything from bread to spaghetti to cereal. For those of you who don't know what Kamut is, this posts for you. From what I have managed to dig up, Kamut is an ancient type of wheat. Some say that a handful of Kamut berries were taken from a thousands of years old tomb in Egypt, and others say that they got it from Egyptian farmers who were still using traditional grains. Regardless of where it was first found, it isn't a hybrid, like pretty much all of the other kinds of wheat that is grown throughout the world today. It is also much bigger--about 3 times the size of normal wheat kernels.
Naturally, I wondered if you could grow Kamut grass and juice it. Although at the moment I don't have a way to get my hands on any of the seeds since I am in Asia, I have discovered that a few people do indeed grow and juice the stuff. Apparently, it pretty much grows the same way as wheatgrass. And the good news is that if you buy genuine Kamut, it is always organic, and non-GMO. I have also found out that Kamut is a bit higher in many amino acids and other nutrients than most other forms of wheat. When I back to the USA, I will give it a go and report on how it works.
If you want more information on Kamut, check out their website. To see all of the various Kamut products, take a look here.