This is a complete guide on how to grow chia seeds. Learn more about the process of planting and sprouting chia from this in-depth post. Although chia seeds can be pricey at many grocery stores, it’s easy and inexpensive to plant, grow, and harvest your own chia right at home. Once you’ve found a dry, warm area to grow your chia seeds, use a rake to mix a handful of chia seeds into the soil. Chia seeds (Salvia hispanica) called mealy cup sedge, are native to Texas and Mexico. Chia was domesticated nearly 4,500 years ago in Mesoamerica and was used as both food and medicine. It is a shrubby, clump-forming, tender perennial that grows 1.5-3′ tall on erect, branching, square stems. Chia seeds Salvia hispanica, one of several related species commonly known as chia (/ ˈtʃiːə /), is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala. It is considered a pseudocereal, cultivated for its edible, hydrophilic chia seed, grown and commonly used as food in several countries of western South America, western Mexico, and the southwestern United States.
