
How to grow Microgreens (Mixed)
Mixed species
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
A windowsill mix of radish, broccoli, rocket and more, cut as tiny seedlings for intense flavour — ready in under two weeks, all year round.
Growing Microgreens (Mixed): what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 4+ hours a day
- Watering
- Keep the compost damp; water from below
- Soil
- Multipurpose compost
- Spacing
- Sown thickly
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- No feeding needed
- Harvest
- About 8 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 1–11
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- On planting day
Sow a Tray
Fill a shallow tray with 3 cm of damp compost, scatter seed thickly, press it in and cover with another tray for a few days.
- 2–4 days after “Sow a Tray”
Uncover and Move to the Light
Seedlings appear in 2–4 days: take the cover off and stand the tray on a bright windowsill. Mist or water from below daily.
- 8–14 days after “Sow a Tray”
Snip and Eat
Cut with scissors just above the compost when the shoots are 5–10 cm tall. Take a photo for your journal!
- 0–7 days after “Snip and Eat”
Sow the Next Tray (optional)
Sow a fresh tray every week or two for a constant supply. Old compost goes on the compost heap.




