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Dearest Benni,
I am thrilled that you are interested in growing your own wheatgrass. Here is the most basic way I can tell you how to grow it.
First you will need Hard Winter Wheat Berries, most health food stores sell them in bulk bins. Get several pounds of them.
In a measuring cup put 2 cups of the hard winter wheat berries and pour them into a bowl and cover them in 4 cups of water over night.
Next day rinse them by placing them in a strainer basket in your kitchen sink. Spray them several times for the next 12 hours. Then plant them.
To plant them, get super soil from the Home Depot. Get growing trays from ACE hardware the 16 by 16 trays you will need a half dozen of them. Put about 2 quarts of soil into the tray and water it a little. then take your sprouted wheatgrass seeds and put them in the middle like a mound, and spread them out in all directions over your moist soil. Just like you are icing a cake, the seeds sit on top of the soil Then lightly water again. Place them with newspaper over them so they get no day light for the first two days. Water twice a day, every day. Get a misting spray bottle and water that way. Don't get it soaking wet so much that mold will grow. Keep it light with the watering. On the 3rd day uncover your seeds, they will be nice and germinated and have hair type folicles growing into the soil. Place the tray in INDIRECT sunlight. Sit in shade somewhere. Here is another tip, you must prop the tray up off the ground so their is air under the bottom so it drains well. I just use a couple of bricks. Do not over water. Too much water will grow mold in the tray. Depending on how warm or cold your part of the world is right now, your grass will be ready in 6 to 14 days. Colder taking longer of course. Don't put it in direct sunlight as it will turn yellow. You can grow it indoors by placing it near a window. When grass is about six inches it's ready. Cut it as low to soil as you can, place it in a bowl and take it to the sink and wash it really good with water. I sometimes soak it in ozone for 15 minutes, but not everyone has an ozone machine. I ozone everything I eat pretty much. Anyway..... you will need to then juice the grass. Wheatgrass juicers are their own machine, other juicers won't do wheatgrass. Buy a machine from Ebay called the Wheateena. I have had mine for twenty years and it still works as good as the day I brought it home. It is solid steel, get the electric one. If you can afford it. Hand crankers work, but are a pain in the ..... you know what I mean.
Start drinking it with just one ounce twice a day, morning and again in early afternoon on an empty stomach. Before you drink the lemonade, and then give it an hour of alone time in your belly before you drink water or your MC drink. Or if you do it for your fast aftercare program (highly suggested for 3 months} drink it before you eat a full hour as well. After about 4 days at one ounce, double it to TWO ounces twice a day, and stay with this for about a week, and then punch it up to 3 ounces twice a day. Don't over do at first, you will barf, it's too much. Little by little is the key. After a month or so you will be able to drink more possibly depending on how clean you are inside. Also implant the grass after the SWF, twice each day for the rest of this fast if you can, or next time you do it. Maybe one day a week you could fast after fast ends and do it that day.
Thats pretty much about it. You can order off Amazon.com, a book by Anne Wigmore called Wheatgrass, used paperbacks are probably five bucks or something like that. Read it, it will teach you how to grow the grass, this is how I learned. The super soil is important. Be sure not to get the soft wheat berries, they are for rejuvelac and not the WG trays. Get HARD winter wheat berries. Two cups make one tray. So get loads of them. Start a new tray every 3rd day.
Good luck and I really hope this helps your hair, I know it will. Wheatgrass has silica in it which is what hair is made of... so don't delay another day! Get going. In the meantime get shots from health food stores every day til the trays are ready. Also never drink old wheatgrass, it is meant to be drank as a baby sprout, if a tray starts to wilt throw it out. If it gets to tall it's not as sweet as the shorter grass, and has less life force in it.
God Bless you Benni,
Love,
Shivablisser
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Last edited by shivabliss on Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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