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Every Bean Counts

Taexalia's Magic Beans

Crunching and bean counting being big news just now, I have decided to join in - and today the great bean sprouting experiment got under way. I have found a lot of advice out there but no singular method, and so this should prove interesting as I am still clueless...

First I soaked my teeny tiny little beans in filtered water for eight hours...

Alfalfa beans having a bath

My tiny alfalfa beans didn't really do anything, no matter how often I sneaked through to the kitchen to check on their progress and I have decided that eight hours is a very long time. Whilst I was staring at the jar hoping to see the first signs of life, I marvelled at how self sufficient we are going to be in around five days when we have our first crop. I suppose starting small is a good idea, and our only option until we move to our new and, as yet, undiscovered garden. I can only imagine how impatient I'm going to be when I sow a vegetable seed and have to wait several months for an end product...

Alfalfa beans stare back motionless

Finally the eight hour decade was up and I poured the beans into the top tray of the bean sprouter and let the water drain off. I am supposed to check for any bad beans but I don't know what a bad bean looks like and they were all sitting quietly so I let them be. I was overjoyed to see they have swollen a bit!