After the first clipping of wheatgrass, I placed some dirt that had come packaged with the wheatgrass kit. I also added some powdered micro-nutrients as well. You can see in the photo the results. Greener and thicker wheatgrass. I don’t have a control sample to compare to.
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The eight K-cups produced about 3/4 of an ounce each for Teresa and I this morning. That was with a little water added to the grinder. I’m thinking 10 or 12 K-cups will be about right. This means I’ll need about 40 – 50 to stay in circulation to meet demand.
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First experiment growing wheatgrass in used K-cups.
I have felt guilty ever since we received the Keurig coffeemaker, or “brewing system” as it’s marketed. The prepackaged K-cup single-serving coffee cups weren’t very environmentally friendly. Plastic, aluminum and paper going into the trash with each cup of coffee. Within the first week we ordered the refillable cups. Problem solved, or at least I thought it was.
While sampling the variety pack of coffees I found a couple I really liked. When I don’t have enough time to wash and clean the refillable filter, I use the one-time-use coffee blends. As the K-cups started to pile up, the guilt returned. Until today.
The K-Cups are now the preferred growing pots for wheatgrass. At the same time I received the Keurig Brewing System, Teresa gave me a wheatgrass hand crank juicer and a wheatgrass growing kit. The kit came with dirt, trays and seeds. However, the trays were large enough to make quarts of juice at a time. The industrial version. Enter the K-cups to the rescue.
The first experiment has worked great. After about three days the cups are now in the windowsill and should be ready for juicing in a couple more days.
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un·der·tow/ˈəndərˌtō/
Noun:
1. A current below the surface of the sea moving in the opposite direction to the surface current, esp. away from the shore.
2. An implicit quality, emotion, or influence underlying the superficial aspects of something and leaving a particular impression.
Synonyms:
underset – undercurrent
Sometimes in the mornings you can get a hint what the day will bring. Today it was people getting in front of me in traffic or slowing down an easy process.
When I arrived at the gym for a noon workout I noticed the smell of insecticide. The trainer said it was lube for the machines. It still smelled of insecticide. To smell it means you’re ingesting it.
I remember my dad telling me of the undertow every time we went to the beach along the Texas Gulf Coast. It was a time before I could drive and before wikipedia. It was something that had to be told face-to-face.
“If you find yourself where you can’t swim against the current, let it take you out until the current is weak and then swim back in,” said dad.
The smell of insecticide-like-machine-lube was starting to close my throat and sinuses and it was my undertow. I decided to let it take me out and would come back when the current was weak. Instead I ran to Mount Bonnell from the gym. Best run in a long time.
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