4 to 40 times as much<\/a> nutritional punch.<\/p>\nKale, for example, has tons of vitamins <\/p>\n
You don\u2019t need any special equipment, either. He uses a cut-open Oatley milk carton, fills it with soil and sprinkles in seeds.<\/p>\n
Microgreens are easy to grow at home. ronstik \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need just sunlight, so you need to be putting them somewhere where there\u2019s sun, and give them daily watering,\u201d he recommended.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always say most vegetables are less sensitive than your average house plants. House plants are the most drama queen plants I\u2019ve ever known. You give them everything and they just die, and it\u2019s really annoying. But vegetables, they\u2019re a bit more resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oakley\u2019s new book, \u201cPlant to Plate,\u201d is out now Quadrille<\/p>\n
You can harvest these after about eight days when they\u2019re around two inches tall, and they\u2019ll continue to grow back over and over again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re so nutritious and you should eat them right away that they\u2019re incredible for you,\u201d said Oakley, who recommends them as toppings or ingredients for smoothies.<\/p>\n
#2: Tomatoes<\/p>\n
Tomatoes are great for your heart, lungs, eyes, skin, teeth and blood vessels. Besides vitamins C and K, potassium and folate, they\u2019re packed with the antioxidant lycopene \u2014 which can lower your risk of cancer and help manage a bunch of diseases.<\/p>\n
Oakley says these are very easy to grow \u2014\u00a0and planting these in front of a sunny window will \u201call be worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomatoes are great for your heart, lungs, eyes, skin, teeth and blood vessels. stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just need a small bucket with some holes in the bottom. Put a plate underneath it. Or you can go fancy and get a nice terracotta pot and fill it with some compost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can get it to buy a tomato plant from a garden center, or you can sow your seeds into a little tray first and then transplant it. Water every now and then, and maybe give it some support with a piece of bamboo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then in about two months\u2019 time, you will have tomatoes to harvest.\u201d<\/p>\n
End up with more tomatoes than you can eat? Oakley recommends fermenting them into something like his tomato kimchi recipe. It\u2019s \u201cso delicious,\u201d he said \u2014\u00a0and you get that extra bang for your buck since fermented foods are great for gut health.<\/p>\n
Finally, lettuce is great if your home doesn\u2019t get much sunlight. geshas \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
#3 Lettuce<\/p>\n
If your home doesn\u2019t get a ton of sunlight, you should still be able to grow lettuce \u2014 and it does best in spring and autumn climates.<\/p>\n
No special planters necessary for this, either: He grows his in an old pipe split in half, filled with compost.<\/p>\n
\u201cSprinkle some lettuce seeds on top, water every now and then, and within about 21 days, you\u2019ll have lettuce,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPick the outer leaves and then leave the center leaves to grow and get bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if lettuce doesn\u2019t get you terribly excited, it\u2019s certainly versatile \u2014\u00a0and full of vitamin K (good for blood and bones), flavonoids (gets rid of those free radicals), and the \u201ceye vitamin\u201d lutein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talk about a plant-based diet. You don\u2019t actually need a green thumb to start growing your own healthy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[2409,5703,13538,105,388,4434,16,15,24573],"class_list":{"0":"post-207751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-eating","9":"tag-fruit","10":"tag-gardening","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-nutrition","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-vegetables"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114732918688387896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}