Comparisons

See AeroGarden vs LetPot lined up on price, pod count, light hours, monthly power cost and warranty terms to match a garden to your kitchen and crops.

Find the best microgreen seed suppliers for your crops by weighing germination, organic certification, pathogen testing, pack sizes, and shipping costs.

Compare the best sprouting trays, jars, sacks and automatic sprouters by format, price and cleaning needs, plus which seeds and buyers each one suits.

See a microgreens equipment list priced at three scales, from one windowsill tray to a full rack, with what to buy, skip, or borrow from the kitchen.

Buying bulk microgreen seeds cuts cost per tray, but only if the bag gets used fast enough. Compare 5 and 25 pound prices, shipping, and weekly tray needs.

Compare a still-water tray, ebb-and-flow table and NFT channel hydroponic system for microgreens, with setup costs, what each needs and problems to expect.

A young edible seedling, grown densely and cut above its medium at about the first true leaf, usually 1.5 to 3 inches and 7 to 21 days. That cut is what separates it from a sprout.

Seed alone makes home growing look eleven times cheaper. Add medium, power, a failure rate and your own time at $20 an hour and the saving against the cheapest retail is 8 percent.

Priced per unit of growing area, the ranking inverts: the $60 kit is the cheapest and the $20 kit is nearly the dearest. Against assembling it yourself, the sample runs 6 to 40 times.