Johnsons Seed Microgreens Kitchen Seed Sprouter

V easy to use and Clean. Saves space by being stackable. Ideal for alfalfa and mung beans. Not so good with peas if you want those to develop into micro greens I think that the old method of paper towels in a tray or yogurt pots works better. Had mine for a couple of weeks now and produced more sprouted seeds than I can use!

This perplexed me, initially as I couldn't understand how the water would drain when there was only one drainage hole per tray and a cap over it. The instructions weren't too helpful initially, but actually they're not wrong, just lacking in detail. There is sufficient gap between the cap over the drainage hole and the tray base to allow water to move up under the cap and into the drainage hole, but it works by capilliary action which means: 1 - it helps to separate trays and caps and rinse them before you begin. 2 - While still damp, put it all back together with drainage pipe poking up and cap over it, even though this is counter-intuitive. Drainage points should be off-set from each other. 3 - Add your seeds and then add about 300ml (a cup) of water. Sufficient volume is important as you need the downward pressure from the weight of the water (I'm not a physicist, apologies to anyone who is who's cringing at my layperson explanation!) to trigger cappillliary action whereby the water draws up the narrow gap between the inside of the cap and the drainage pipe thing which is poking up under the cap, and eventually down through the drainage hole. 4 - Water moves up under the cap from the tray to fill the gap made by the water that's drained away. That's your capilliary action. 300 ml takes about 2.5 minutes to drain through on mine. If any of your trays is swirling with water and you do not see it draining away, try twiddling the cap. If that doesn't work, dismantle and rinse it through again without drying it. The moisture from rinsing it through helps the capilliary action to get going. Also, check it's on a level surface and that you're using sufficient volume of water to get it going. Now that I've got it going, it's working fine, but initially I was ready for sending it back, so thank you to the reviewer who mentioned capilliary action.

This is a perfectly serviceable sprouter, but be aware that you need to remove the drain section from each layer (easily done) when you wash it. Four levels is great.

Very poor product. It does not drain properly. I can’t understand the good reviews that have been given. Basically about a centimetre if water will just sit in each of the trays, so it does not work. Be warned!

It works, but a little water tends to sit in the tray - some of my seeds started to turn mouldy,, so I ended up rinsing the seeds in each tray individually. Tiny seeds (alfalfa) clog the filter. Defeated the object of buying this. Will be going back to a Kilner ‘shaker’ jar.

Fantastic to use and I like tje seeds

I am not very experienced sprouter but I am very pleased. It is perfect for larger seeds and small. For the first few days water has been blocked sometimes for no reason on one of the trays regardless seeds' size. But after washing them few times, touching water filters at the other, bottom side water is filtering with no problems. Even on the tray with small seeds and even when seeds surrounds filter water smoothly filters through. Sprouts are growing very fast. Strongly recommend.

We have grown Microgreens in the past in large trays but we wanted something smaller and found the Johnsons Microgreens kit. As soon as we got it we added our seeds and poured water in the top tray after a few seconds the water filtered down to the other trays. We continued to water 3 times a day and after 7 days we have healthy Microgreens. We have just ordered another.