Sunflower Sprouts
Windowsills are a great place to grow kitchen herbs and sprouts. If you have an unobstructed east- or west-facing window, whatever you choose to plant will have a very happy home; if you give your plant some toothsome kitchen scraps, it’ll have an even happier home. (In my case, whenever I use eggs, I add a little bit of cold water to the eggy bowl, swish it, and then pour it into the plant. Crushed eggshells also make great fertilizer. Just be careful not to overfeed your house plants–if you do, mold can develop!)
This spring, after going on a what-do-I-already-have? rampage through my pantry, I wound up planting dried Northern beans, some wheatberries, and raw sunflower seeds. And guess what? They all grew! (Which really made me think about that old wives’ tale I’d heard as a kid about watermelon seeds growing in your belly…) The raw sunflower seeds from Trader Joe’s did the best, so I planted another batch and then gave the seeded soil some windowsill real estate. I planted them with the intention of snipping off the sprouts and adding them to my salads, but they’re looking so cute that I may have to let them become sunflowers…
…or not. It is getting to be lunchtime, after all.
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