Start filling a number of containers with soil.  These containers can be clay pots with or without holes or a simple plastic basin that is six to eight inches in diameter and three inches deep.  The soil can take up about two and a half inches deep within the container.  You can also use trays that are made of wood or steel as well.  The number of containers can range from seven to nine so that you will be able to harvest a wheatgrass yield each day of the week. The soil that you put in the container can be a plain soil or an organic potting mix.  Be sure that there are not any chemicals or fertilizers that are added in it to be able to sustain a pure supply of nutrients in the wheatgrass. Remember you are concentrating on proper health, so that means using organic wheatgrass seeds and natural soil. Once you had the container ready with soil, spread the soaked wheat grass seeds evenly on the surface, making sure that they do not overlap one another, finishing it with a sprinkle of soil on the wheat grains.

To provide the needed darkness as well as to prevent birds or outside factors from destroying your growing crops, cover the container with a newspaper.  Make sure to dampen it a little to provide the needed moisture. You can place your wheatgrass tray inside or outside the house for as long as it receives filtered sunlight.  The balcony, windowsill or veranda is an ideal place but you have to make sure that the wheatgrass is not under direct sunlight or else it will easily dry up and die even before the seeds take root.

Uncover the newspaper on the wheatgrass container and spray it with water to keep the moisture going, finally covering it back with the newspaper.  This step must be done repeatedly each day until you see the wheatgrass leaves sprouting from the soil.  You can now stop covering the wheatgrass once you see the leaves growing. Be sure to water the pot everyday. The amount of water that you should put depends on the season as well as whether the container has holes for drainage on it or not. A very hot weather requires more moisture on the wheatgrass while cold season sometimes no longer needs more water than it has.

The wheatgrass will continue to grow in height everyday.  Once the height reaches about eight to twelve inches tall, the wheatgrass is ready to be harvested.  This usually happens during the seventh to ninth day of germination, by the time that the wheatgrass is at its peak of nutrient content.  Use a serrated knife or a clean pair of scissors when cutting the wheatgrass just about half an inch from the soil surface.  The wheatgrass that you harvest is now ready to be fed into a juicer machine for drinking. What was left of the wheatgrass on the container can still be re-grown for another round of harvest in six to seven days.  However, you have to remember that the nutrients contained in this second batch of wheatgrass is not as rich and abundant as the first one but they are still healthy and beneficial nutrients nonetheless.

Once you are done with harvesting the second batch of wheatgrass, remove the soil entirely from the container and breakup the all the roots while mixing them with the soil. Add a bit of cowdung and your soil will be once again rejuvenated with plant food. This new soil can be used for another fresh round of growing wheatgrass. The quantity of wheat grass that you must sow everyday depends on how many people or volume of wheatgrass juice consumed. If you have about four healthy people drinking fresh wheatgrass juice everyday, then having seven to nine wheatgrass containers can sustain the ideal one hundred grams of wheatgrass grains to be sown everyday. This will ensure you that you have a harvest each day of the week. This can also sustain a sick individual who drinks wheatgrass juice for supplementary nutrition. You can also store your wheatgrass so long as it is put in an air-tight container or cellophane bag, placed inside the refrigerator and for only about three days. Leaving you wheatgrass untouched for more than three days will leave it wilting which destroys most of the nutrients that it has.

Wheat grass juice must be drank immediately after juicing as the nutrients are destroyed the longer you keep your juice staying out in the open. You can also store it in an air-tight container to lessen the destruction of the nutrients but you can only keep it for less than twenty-four hours or else you will be left with an empty beverage. In juicing wheatgrass, most people use a masticating wheatgrass juicer because it is a slow-turning juicer machine which is ideal for delicate green vegetables, sprouts and wheatgrass as well. Electric blenders or high-speed juicer machines such as the centrifugal juicer should not be used as the fast movement of its blades causes oxidation of the chlorophyll, rendering it useless for consumption. Wheatgrass juicers can be purchased in online health stores where you can find a wide selection of these masticating juicer machines in various models and prices.

The process of juicing the wheatgrass is rather simple. You only have to place the cut wheatgrass in the wheatgrass juicer and let the juicer machine do its work.  The wheatgrass juicer squeezes the juice out of the fibers slowly and surely, resulting to a juice extraction rate of about fifty percent more than high-speed juicers. The remaining pulp can be ran through the juicer extractor for a bit more rounds until there is no more juice left to be extracted. The pulp can be used as compost for the soil that you use to grow your wheatgrass. Drinking wheatgrass can be a very significant part of our life, helping us fight as well as prevent a lot of unhealthy conditions that may plague our body. By growing our own wheatgrass patch at home, we can ensure ourselves of this bright and healthy future.