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Sunflower sprouts are baby sunflowers. They make an inexpensive and tasty nutritional addition to any salad or green smoothie.

Fresh, crunchy, and slightly nutty in flavor they are grown indoors all year round, providing lovely fresh greens in the depths of winter.

They can also be grown outdoors when the weather is warm. I find they need protecting from hungry wildlife with netting or some squirrel proof wire mesh if I do this.

Growing Sunflower Sprouts

This is how I grow sunflower sprouts. We usually have a tray growing somewhere in the house. They’re so tasty I snack on them straight from the tray, and a small boy I know likes to pretend he’s Peter Rabbit stealing from Mr McGregor’s garden!