Guides

Each guide answers one job: a tray in an apartment, a cost comparison, a windowsill, a balcony salad, or the watering step those setups share.

The pages cite university extension publications and link those sources. They are not grow diaries. A seed calculator scales the published 10 by 20 inch rates to other tray sizes.

• How to grow microgreens in a small apartment

  A tray, a soilless mix, and a bright spot are enough to start. Here is the sequence extension publications describe.

• Microgreens kit vs DIY: what the costs are made of

  The tray is a one-time purchase. Seed is the cost that returns with every sowing.

• Microgreens seed density per tray

  Extension charts do not all use the same tray. Read the tray size before you copy a gram number.

• Pea shoots vs radish microgreens

  Radish is a light sowing of a spicy green. Pea is a heavy sowing of a milder shoot.

• Can you grow microgreens on a windowsill?

  Several extensions say yes, with a bright window. A lamp is the backup when stems lean hard toward the glass.

• How to start vegetable seeds in an apartment

  Transplants need more light and more weeks than a tray of microgreens. The setup is still a shelf, not a yard.

• Bottom watering for trays and microgreens

  Water from below to wet the mix without soaking the leaves. Then let the tray drain.

• A balcony salad garden in containers

  Leafy greens need less sun than tomatoes. Drainage and pot size decide whether a balcony salad lasts.