Grazing

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For the first time I actually remember I drank a couple of ounces of wheatgrass juice within fifteen minutes of cutting it. I shouldn't have been surprised. I didn't exactly know with aforethought what it would taste like. But, after I'd swished it around in my mouth for a while and then swallowed, I realized it tastes just like... grass.

I like the hype I'm reading about employing a wheatgrass diet. I like the description of chlorophyl as liquid sunshine. Most of all, however, what I like about this deal is that I can easily grow this stuff all year long and have green food that I know where it comes from.

My sister-in-law is my partner in crime with this diet. She actually found out about it from her father who just hours before his death, when she asked him if there was anything she could get him, he said he wished he had some wheatgrass to drink. I think she is treating that incident as a sort of his last advice to her.

We planted a couple of trays of wheatgrass berries she had been soaking for a day or so. She showed me how to put about an inch of soil in the bottom of the tray and then cover it with the soaked wheatgrass berries. Then, we cover the trays up. They're supposed to be covered for three days, then uncovered to the light for a week before you can start harvesting.

It's been two and a half days, so I've been eager to see how the berries are developing. I walked over to my brothers house and asked if it was time to uncover the trays yet. Me and my brother sat and talked for a while. He seemed happy I was getting interested in participating in this diet.

One of the parts of the process that concerned me was the cost of a juicer. The ones I've seen on the internet are not cheap. I could buy a nice computer or a new digital TV for $700. While I was over at their house I asked what kind of juicer they had. They got a nice cash flow situation going much, much better than me. I figured she had the expensive kind.

I was delighted to be informed that the juicer my brother had found for her was operated manually, and she told me it could be had for about $100. Whew! I can live with that. Then, she offered to cut some of the wheatgrass she had growing outside on the sunny side of her house, and show me how the juicer worked, and feed me my first jigger of juice.

She got a stainless steel bowl she used to put the wheatgrass in and some scissors, and we went outside to where she had it growing. I was surprised to see it because it looked just like the grass the commercial grass grower scoop off the top of the ground to plant on new lawns.

That's when I realized it was in that form because she had grown the grass in a shallow tray with one inch of topsoil in it, so when the wheatgrass took root and she removed it from the tray to lay on top of the ground by her house, it had to look like that.

For some reason I had thought that she would use all the grass that grew in a tray of fresh wheatgrass for each juicing, but I was wrong. She cut the fresh wheat grass close to the ground to juice it, and then let it grow back out to have the regrowth to cut again. This is looking easier to do as we go along.

The most convenient aspect of this for doing this is they have a fairly large greenhouse that's located almost exactly halfway between my house and their house. The wheat grass can be started in the trays and then laid out on the ground inside the green house where it can grow at a maximum rate until it peters out, and then the sod pad can be rooted up and replaced with a newly grown tray full.

This juicing diet is a blessing for a snaggletoothed old man who never took much care of his teeth anyway. Particularly when I realized the problems I've been have with my mouth has to do with the partial denture I use because I ain't got no upper chewing teeth left. The partial is held together with titanium, and that titanium has rubbed my tongue raw where I use it to keep pushing the partial plate into place.

I'm very happy to have figured that out. It's been very uncomfortable and inconvenient to have to cater to what I eat. Spicy food and alcohol burn like crazy. I think if I quit using the denture for a while it ought to heal up. If it doesn't, then I got other troubles. What a drag, man.
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