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A third company just recalled broccoli seed for possible Salmonella. Gardeners Basics (Waltham 29 Broccoli Sprouting See...
10/09/2026

A third company just recalled broccoli seed for possible Salmonella. Gardeners Basics (Waltham 29 Broccoli Sprouting Seeds, 1 lb) joins EAK Distribution and Eden Brothers.

If you grow microgreens or sprouts, pull your broccoli seed packets and check them against the FDA notices. Stop using any seed that's listed, and don't eat anything grown from it.

The FDA says the Gardeners Basics seed was linked to a sprout grower in a multistate illness investigation. No illnesses had been reported to the company as of Oct. 6.

Recall notices and the full story are in this week's digest: https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/october-9-2026/

Share this with a grower who buys seed online. Gardeners Basics sold on Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, and TikTok Shop.

Photo: FDA recall notice

Quick one for the farmers here. The Northeast Farmers Fund is taking applications until Tuesday, October 14.It can help ...
10/09/2026

Quick one for the farmers here. The Northeast Farmers Fund is taking applications until Tuesday, October 14.

It can help with equipment, processing, and marketing costs. This is the first application period, and it's rolling, so don't wait for the last day.

Check the fund's own page for eligibility before you apply. We don't want anyone spending an evening on an application they don't qualify for.

Also in this week's digest: a Colorado program that reimburses up to half the cost of an intern (up to $5,000, closes November 2), plus a vendor scam warning. Full issue: https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/october-9-2026/

Know a grower in the Northeast? Tag them.

If you've had root rot show upin a tray you did nothing to cause,look at your water before you look at your seed.A stude...
10/02/2026

If you've had root rot show up
in a tray you did nothing to cause,
look at your water before you look at your seed.

A student team grew amaranth microgreens in mini hydroponic tanks to study a Pythium root rot. Then their control tanks started rotting too.

Ten trials. Two years. The controls kept showing root rot the team had not caused.

In the last trial, they disinfected the equipment and sterilized the water three different ways. The controls stayed clean. The authors' conclusion: municipal tap water was likely bringing it in.

That's a lead, not a finding. It's a small student study, and the last trial changed several things at once, so it can't tell you which step did the work.

You can still run a cheap version on your own bench. This part is our suggestion, not the paper's: split your next seeding, one tray on straight tap water and one on water you've treated, everything else the same. If the rot only shows up on one side, you've learned something about your own water.

Which three treatments they used, what they suggest commercial growers consider, and where we'd read the result with care are in this week's Microgreens World digest.

This week's issue: https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/october-2-2026

If you grow microgreens under LEDs and you're pricing a new fixture, read this before you trust the scale on harvest day...
09/25/2026

If you grow microgreens under LEDs and you're pricing a new fixture, read this before you trust the scale on harvest day.

A team in Russia grew radish microgreens under two 50-watt LED fixtures. One of them raised fresh yield by 68 percent. On a scale, that looks like a clear winner.

Then they dried the plants. Most of the gain was water.

Fresh weight tells you how much water the crop is holding. Dry weight tells you how much plant you grew. A light can move one and barely touch the other.

You can run the same check yourself. Cut a small sample from each tray, weigh it, dry it in a low oven until the weight stops falling, and weigh it again. Compare the dry numbers, not the fresh ones.

Which light won on fresh weight, what happened to the shoots you sell, and three reasons to read the study with care are in this week's Microgreens World digest. Link in the first comment.

First comment: This week's issue: https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/september-25-2026

Is it really possible to quadruple the iron in a tray of microgreens without giving anything up?Penn State put five iron...
09/18/2026

Is it really possible to quadruple the iron in a tray of microgreens without giving anything up?

Penn State put five iron sources against an untreated control, at three rates, on radish and pea. One source did the job. One did nothing at all, and the reason it did nothing is a detail about tray plumbing that will matter to anyone running a shallow reservoir.

Then there is the part almost nobody measures. Something else in the tissue moved while the iron was going up. It moved down, and in one crop it moved down by 62 per cent.

The frame worth keeping even if you never click: biofortification is a trade, not an addition. You are not adding a mineral to a plant. You are changing what the plant takes up, and the plant does not have unlimited room.

Which means if anyone runs an iron panel for you, that panel should not stop at iron.

Which source won, which one failed and why, what fell, and how far it fell in each crop. All in this week's issue: https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/september-18-2026/

09/16/2026

Sept is the one month a year I spend a couple of dollars a packet for cheap toss them in and wait seeds. They really pay off! Remember not to w**d out the new starts in the spring!

Is it really possible that a red cabbage grown to maturity beats its own microgreens? One trial planted the same seed bo...
09/11/2026

Is it really possible that a red cabbage grown to maturity beats its own microgreens? One trial planted the same seed both ways and measured both, and the answer is not the one this page usually prints.

Most growers answer "are microgreens more nutritious" with a multiple. Six times the vitamin C. Forty times the vitamin E. Those figures come from comparing microgreens against mature vegetables grown somewhere else, by someone else.

This trial removed that problem. One cultivar, one organic farm, one season. Part of the seed was grown as microgreens under supplementary LED, the rest grown on to heads.

The mature cabbage won on four measures. The microgreens won on one. And between the two lamp colors the microgreens were grown under, one beat the other on everything measured.

The usable part, whether or not you click: the honest answer to a customer is never a multiple. It is which compound, compared against what. Say that at the stall and you will sound like the only grower who has read a paper.

Which four measures, which one, which lamp, and the numbers behind each are in this week's issue.

Read it here ==> https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/september-11-2026

Is it possible the light setting growing your heaviest trays is the same one costing you the color people buy on?Most of...
09/04/2026

Is it possible the light setting growing your heaviest trays is the same one costing you the color people buy on?

Most of us set the lights once and leave them. Turn the blue up, the trays come off heavier, the numbers look better, and nobody tells you what you gave up to get there.

A red cabbage trial went looking for the trade. Three blue LED power levels crossed with four selenium doses, thirty-six units, three replications.

Three outcomes. Three different winning settings.

Weight peaked at one combination. Carotenoids at another. Anthocyanin, the red pigment people buy with their eyes, somewhere else again.

Nothing peaked in the same place.

Which means there is no best setting, and there never was. There is only what you are optimizing for on this crop, and what you are willing to give up to get it. Decide that before you set the light, not after you weigh the tray.

The three winning combinations, the wattages and the doses, and the one caution that comes with them are in this week's issue: https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/september-4-2026/

Have you seen where the compound actually sits inside a broccoli microgreen? It is not spread evenly through the plant, ...
09/01/2026

Have you seen where the compound actually sits inside a broccoli microgreen? It is not spread evenly through the plant, and that turned out to be the thing that surprised me most.

Guo's team separated broccoli sprouts into cotyledon, hypocotyl, and root, then measured each part on its own.

Ninety-three to ninety-seven percent of the glucoraphanin sat in the cotyledons. The three-day cotyledon carried nearly eighteen times what the stem below it did, and sixty-six times what the root did.

Then they measured the enzyme, and it runs the other way. Myrosinase is what turns glucoraphanin into sulforaphane, and the hypocotyl carried about four times the myrosinase of the cotyledon.

The root makes the point better than either of the others. Rich in the enzyme, with almost no precursor, it produced sulforaphane at just over one percent of its breakdown products. An enzyme with nothing to work on produces nothing at all.

So the compound lives up in the leaves, the machinery that acts on it lives in the stem below, and your harvest cut runs somewhere between them.

Does cutting lower change what you end up with? Nobody has tested it, and I am not going to claim it. If you want to run it on your own trays, I would like to hear what happens.

https://microgreensworld.com/how-to-grow-broccoli-microgreens/

Guo et al. 2014.

If your grow room ran hot this summer, something changed in the trays.Not the yield. The chemistry.A team at the Univers...
08/28/2026

If your grow room ran hot this summer, something changed in the trays.

Not the yield. The chemistry.

A team at the University of Zagreb grew broccoli from the same seed at two temperatures, and the gap they measured was:

28 per cent.

Broccoli sprouts raised at 38°C (100°F) day and 33°C (91°F) night carried 28 percent less total glucosinolate than the same seed raised at 23°C (73°F) and 18°C (64°F). Total phenolic acids fell 40 percent. Total polyphenolics moved the other way and rose 30 percent.

If your room ran warm through July, the trays you sold may not match the profile you describe on your sign. Worth knowing before you write next season's labels.

The full figures, the growing conditions, and the rest of this week's issue are here.

https://microgreensworld.com/microgreens-weekly-digest/august-28-2026

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