{"id":579,"date":"2021-03-15T21:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=579"},"modified":"2021-03-15T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:58:30","slug":"micro-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Micro Greens."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Not a fan of the name &#8211; &#8216;micro greens&#8217;. I keep thinking that they&#8217;ll be tiny little plants and the only way you can eat them would be on a massive white plate with a small pile of them in the centre. Kinda 1990s era nouveau cuisine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from the name, though, they&#8217;re rather cool. We planted some pea shoots which, well, shot up and grew so fast we couldn&#8217;t keep up. Next time I&#8217;ll plant them a few every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have some baby kale, and something else that I didn&#8217;t recognize but tastes rather good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you like salad and live in Canada, like I do, then these grow light contraptions for micro greens are rather cool. As long as you stay on top of them, the greens keep on coming. The grow-op that we have also has a nifty contraption for keeping the plants watered. Once every two weeks you can fill a bin and the water wicks up. It&#8217;s brilliant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you really hate the name &#8216;micro greens&#8217; just don&#8217;t harvest them for a few days. They turn macro rather quickly. But then they get unwieldy and the flavour suffers somewhat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-773x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-773x1030.jpg 773w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-1125x1500.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens-529x705.jpg 529w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MicroGreens.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><figcaption>A few days into the growing season.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a fan of the name &#8211; &#8216;micro greens&#8217;. I keep thinking that they&#8217;ll be tiny little plants and the only way you can eat them would be on a massive white plate with a small pile of them in the centre. Kinda 1990s era nouveau cuisine. Aside from the name, though, they&#8217;re rather cool. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,66,13,53],"tags":[68,114,115],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-grow","category-ingredients","category-organic","tag-grow","tag-micro-greens","tag-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}