With this new method of growing

Benefits and Advantages of CropKing's MicroGreen Growing System

The MicroGreen system from CropKing grows the best MicroGreens on the market without the comtamination of soil!

Controlled production of consistently high quality microgreens and other specialty greens such as wheatgrass are now possible with CropKing's technology. A standard single MicroGreen system will produce as much in a seventy square feet as soil growers produce in fifteen times that amount of space!

CropKing's MicroGreen technology can

• Grow fresh, highly nutritious and extremely tasty MicroGreens!
• Eliminate the use of harmful pesticides or herbicides.
• Accelerate germination and growth of microgreens.
• Grow a consistent quantity and quality of product, day in and day out!
• Minimize labor watering is completely automated.
• Significantly reduced labor compared with soil production.
• There is NO soil, so the product is perfectly clean!
• There are no grains of soil/sand/grit in the final product.
• Only light rinsing is required since soil is not present.
• Labor is reduced in washing, both at the grower end and receiver end.
• The microgreens do not get damaged with manual handling, which means a more marketable product.
• The system allows for a variety of MicroGreen crops to be grown.
• Nutritional management is significantly easier since we can feed optimum nutrients directly to the seeds and young plants rather than having to inject it into the soil.
• The system allows for uniform and extremely consistent water and nutrient supply to the plants.
• No need for composting or mixing soils.
• No need for filling growing beds with soil mixes.
• No need for spreading soil on top of the seeds after planting.
• No need for removing soil after the crop is harvested.
• No need for replacing soil after each crop is harvested.
• No need for manual watering of the seeds or growing beds.
• No risk of contaminants from previous crop residue remaining in the soil growing beds.
• No risk of soil born insects, since 90% of most detrimental insects carry on their reproductive cycle in the soil.
• No soil born diseases such as phytophera, pythium, or other bacterial diseases that are commonly found in soil.
• No weeds!

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