Imagine Having Your Best Garden Yet, Seven Simple Ideas By Bill Bradshaw For My Grandmother, My Kids and My Big Sister. And also Professor Potato. Introduction. Gardening is fun, or at least it should be. Doing things in the garden that offer a reward in eighty, or one hundred days might seem like a long way away. If you are not inspired to wait that long. Start with something like a flat of Pumpkin or Sunflower Sprouts. Your can have delicious and nutritious Sprouts for your sandwich or salad in just a week to ten days from now. Always soak your seeds before you plant them. They will sprout much faster and have more even sprouting and growth. Add a Tiny pinch of hardwood ash, Azomite or Real Salt to your soak water. This will alkalinize the seeds and your water. It add s important trace minerals to your spro