Growing Wheatgrass – Guide to “Growing Wheatgrass” At Home

If you don’t know what wheatgrass is for, read my posts on organic wheatgrass and wheatgrass seeds facts.

From my personal experience, if you know the right steps, growing and harvesting your own wheat grass is easy. You definitely don’t need a green thumb and it’s easy enough for even someone as lazy as me. It’s as easy as making kefir from kefir grains.

Here’s a step by step procedure that works for me… it should for you too.

Organics You will Need:

• Organic Wheatgrass Seeds
• Organic Soil and Fertilizer
• Peat Moss (optional)

You may have noticed I use the word organic most of the time. This is because I only recommend using organic wheat grass seeds. It tastes sweeter, contains the most vitamins and minerals, and more importantly it isn’t genetically modified in any way (GMO free or Non-GMO).

Tools You will Need:

• Plastic Gardening Tray
• Spray Bottle
• Scissors
• Shot Glass
• Wheatgrass Juicer (optional, highly recommended)
• Sprouter (optional, use this instead of the tray)

1. Pre-sprouting Organic Wheatgrass Seeds and preparing the Gardening Tray

Pre-sprouting is important if you want a good crop. It’s a little additional work compared to other methods but it’s definitely worth it.

• Pour just enough seeds to cover a layer of your gardening tray. Not too much overlapping.
• Rinse the seeds in clean water and drain them.
• Take out a bottle and soak them in cold water for about 10 hours.
• Drain the water and soak them again for another 10 hours.
• Again repeat by draining and soaking for the last 10 hours. It should start sprouting after this period.
• Layout the gardening tray with the paper towels so the holes are covered.
• Now take your organic soil, which should be moist, mix with peat moss if you want, and put a layer on the gardening tray. Don’t use artificial fertilizers.

2. Planting

• Now take your wheatgrass seeds, lay them over the organic soil in the tray. Making sure they don’t overlap each other.
• Gently press them into the soil.
• Place the gardening tray setup in a well ventilated place and make sure it is away from direct sunlight.

3. Watering

• Water twice daily using a spray bottle. Making sure you don’t water them too strongly.
• To be sure your soil doesn’t dry out, place a damp paper on top of the tray until the wheatgrass has grown about an inch in height.
• Whey they are an inch in height you can reduce watering them to once a day. But still making sure the soil is never dry.

This is where it gets a little tricky. Most of the problems I’ve heard of wheat grass seeds not growing has to do with the amount of watering they get. If you’re new to the whole wheat grass thing,a general rule of thumb is the soil should never be dry, but always damp.

Over watering is also pretty common. You want the soil to be damp and moist, not flooded. So the moment you see water not being absorbed by the soil, you’ve over watered.

4. Harvesting And Juicing Your Wheatgrass

Before you go on harvesting your wheat grass, it is important to know that once you cut and harvest them, you have to juice and drink the wheat grass within 20 minutes to get the optimal nutrition, vitamins and minerals, chlorophyll and enzymes. If you don’t, all the above starts to die off.

• Around day 8 to day 10, your wheatgrass should be about 6-7 inches tall. If it is, they’re now ready for harvesting.
• Take your scissors and cut right above the seeds. You need to cut a handful of them to make a shot.
• TIP - Spotting moulds on the soil? Don’t worry about it, just cut above it.
• Take your wheat grass juicer (which you can get from wheatgrass kits – it’s the banner below) and start juicing!

Don’t use grinders or blenders to juice the wheatgrass!
They will only oxidize the chlorophyll making the wheatgrass juice useless. If you don’t have a juicer, you can use the ever handy mortar and pestle.

• Chop the wheat grass
• Add a little water
• And grind it into a fine paste.
• Take out a clean muslin cloth and strain the juice in a cup.
• Keep doing this until the grass turns white.
• Drink ONLY an ounce a day. That’s all you really need. It’s that potent.

And there you have it. A step by step process on how to grow, plant, water, harvest and juice your very own wheat grass. It might seem a little daunting at first, but after you’ve done it a few times it gets easier. And you’ll see how growing your own can save you a lot of money in the long run.

And lastly, keep drinking this stuff daily, (along with kefir of course) and you’ll start to see the health benefits everyone is talking about.

Learn how to make your own wheatgrass video course here.

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