So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Want to grow your own mini vegetables without the need of a garden?

By Nick Jaggs

Through indoor micro farming one has unlimited access throughout the year to mini salads, micro greens and bean sprouts that are healthy and intensely flavoured. When plants are young they are also more nutritious and in some cases sprouted baby vegetables have considerably more nutritional value than you would get from more mature ones.

Many of us are familiar with the small stacking kinds of bean sprouters available and which you sit on a kitchen window sill. Although they offer us a taste of the health benefits to be garnered from bean and seed sprouts they only provide them to us on an intermittent basis unless we have several of them. Plus they only offer portions of a garnish size regularly. These stacking systems also limit you to growing without soil only smaller sprouts so things such as sunflower greens, pea shoots and the increasingly popular wheatgrass for juicing are strictly off limits using this method.

Hassle-Free Healthy Young Sprouts & Salads. If you are looking to increase your intake of the nutrients they provide for enhancing your health you may find that taking care of these mini plant-lets is somewhat a chore. This is because the conventional sprouters and sprouting jars you used need lots of regular watering and rinsing. For those of us who are out at work all day then successfully growing such foods becomes even more of a challenge.

So what do you do if the space available and time is limited and yet you still want to grow your own healthy sprouts and micro greens so you don't need to purchase inferior ones from a store?

Luckily for you there is a solution to this problem that will allow you to successfully produce your own organic seeds and bean sprouts, pea shoots, micro salads, herbs and sunflower greens effortlessly and in plentiful supply all year round. There is no need for to rely on sophisticated artificially lit or temperature controlled indoor growing rooms that use fancy hydroponics or lighting. You just need a small amount of space, a good water supply a little bit of electricity and some ambient lighting.

The EasyGreen Makes it EasyGrown. With the self contained fully automated EasyGreen MikroFarm hydroponics system you can very effectively produce enough of your favourite sprouts simply to make a different in your life and provide you with their many health benefits. Just a one box solution that will provide you with regular crops of mini vegetables but other plants as well. Chefs can even use these to grow good quality micro greens, baby salads and garnishes for their restaurants. As the EasyGreen is a modular system it provides you with the ability to place units on top of each so increasing the number of crops you can grow.

This equipment even allows you to grow wheatgrass that can be juiced, bean and seed sprouts, pea shoots for garnishing meals or to be put in salads. As well as allowing you to grow sunflower greens with or without the use of soil along with miniature salad leaves and micro herbs that can boost the flavours in your food. The list of foods that you will be able to grow with this system is almost limitless. Even using a food dehydrator is possible which can not only add variety but is just as healthy.

How Does it Work? This is a very simple system to use and at the heart of the EasyGreen is to be found some of the most advanced hydroponic technology available today. It is made up of rectangular box which at the front is where the plants are grown and to the rear is a reservoir. Plus it is covered with a clear polycarbonate lid that ensures that light is allowed to reach the plants growing. Also water and any organic nutrients that you add to it will be automatically sprayed into the growing chamber at times you determine using the timer. This ensures that you have complete control over when and how much is provided to the plants growing inside.

Also you will find that there are plenty of growing trays to select from and can be tailored to your growing chamber allowing you to then mix and match crops. You can produce bulk amounts of one crop such as sunflower sprouts, wheatgrass or baby salads using the larger trays. Whilst the junior trays will allow you to crow up to ten varieties of plants at any one time.

Simplicity Means Success. At the very heart of the EasyGreen is its watering system that consists of a specialist pump that generates mist. Through creating an ultra fine mist spray of oxygenated water the system provides the most advanced and optimised growing environment. Seeds do not need to be pre-soaked as they are watered evenly and will grow at the fastest rate possible. The mist also provides the delicate young roots of the crops with oxygen that they need. This generator provides you with complete control over the ventilated growing chamber by purging at every watering with clean filtered air. Also because this system does not come with watering jets or dripper nozzles there are no blockages to contend with.

Where your water is sourced from is your decision and if you choose to add nutrients like Kelp to the reservoir is another decision for you to make in order to improve the crops vitality at harvest time. Using this system you decide when the crops get watered during the day and night at intervals of no less than 15 minutes at a time. Once the seeds are laid in the tray the reservoir needs to be filled and the timer set for when to water the crops and after doing this you can just forget about it. This is certainly of benefit to those who lead very busy lifestyles. However, you shouldn't forget to make sure that the reservoir is regularly topped up and also to harvest the crops once they have reached their most nutritious and flavoursome stage of growth.

As you will find with the EasyGreen system unlike other hydroponic systems you can use soil or compost in the trays. So it provides the perfect environment for long term growing crops such as sunflower greens, baby salads or wheatgrass. Of all the systems available this is undoubtedly one of the best no matter what kinds of mini plants or sprouts you wish to grow and will provide you with a convenient regular supply of the kinds of foods that can improve your overall health. Also these don't need too much electricity to power them so will not adversely affect the environment. Yes to purchase they can prove expensive but the benefits you reap from using them will soon outweigh the initial cost.

Each EasyGreen MikroFarm measures 24 x 18 inches and includes 5 long trays. There are other trays available and can be purchased at the time you by the initial system and in the UK it typically costs around 149.00. As well as being very informative the manual offers tips and guides on how to grow various sprouts. The EasyGreen MikroFarm is imported and sold in the UK by UK Juicers Limited who also provides with it a free comprehensive sprouting book which quickly allows you to become an expert on this particular health subject. Plus they also provide a range of good quality organic sprouting seeds to help you get started.

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