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Friday, October 23, 2009

Growing Your Own Mini Vegetables without the Need for 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 for ways to increase the amount of nutrients that you consume to improve your health taking care of these mini plantlets can prove a difficult task. With conventional sprouting jars and sprouters will require you to water and rinse them regularly. So if you wish to grow such plants but are out at work all day this can prove 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?

There is a solution to this problem that will in turn provide you with the opportunity to successfully grown all year round your own organic sunflower greens, pea shoots, micro salads, beans and seed sprouts in plentiful supplies effortlessly. You don't even need to have a sophisticated, artificially lit; temperature controlled indoor growing room that uses hydroponics and fancy lighting. What is needed is a small amount of space, a small amount of electricity along with a water supply 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.

It allows you to grow all types of bean and seed sprouts, wheatgrass that can be juiced, sunflower greens with or without the need for soil, pea shoots to be used as garnishes or in salads, micro herbs to add flavour to your plate and miniature salad leaves. The possibilities are endless. You can even look at using a food dehydrator as well to add some variety to the mix.

How Does it Work? At its heart the EasyGreen employs some of the most advanced hydroponic technology available today. It consists of a rectangular box at the rear of which is a reservoir and to the front the growing chamber. It comes with a clear polycarbonate cover allowing light to flood the crops and water and any organic nutrients you wish to add is automatically sprayed into the growing chamber which is controlled by a timer so giving you complete control over exactly what the plants you are growing need.

With the EasyGreen you have a good selection of growing trays to choose from allowing you to tailor the growing chamber to meet your particular needs. So in effective you have the ability to mix and match what plants will be grown within it. If you are intending to grow wheatgrass, sunflower sprouts or baby salads then you should use the large trays. Whereas the junior (smaller) trays are more suitable to growing a wide selection of crops up to 10 varieties at a time in them.

Simplicity Means Success. Each EasyGreen system comes with a specialist pump that creates an ultra fine mist of water that is oxygenated and provides you with a more optimized and advance growing environment for your crops. As the seeds contained within are watered evenly there is no need to initially pre-soak them and will often grow much more quickly. Also the mist has sufficient amounts of oxygen in it that is beneficial to the growth of the young crops roots. The generator also provides you with complete control over the growing chamber that is ventilated because every time the crops are watered the air is being filtered and cleaned. Plus because these systems contain no water jets or dripper nozzles you want have to spend time dealing with blockages.

What water source you use and whether you add nutrients to it including a Kelp solution to enhance the crops vitality is up to you. You are able to fine tune the water at any time of day or night at 15 minute intervals. After laying the seeds in the tray and filled up the reservoir you just set it up and forget about it, which is advantageous to those who lead busy lives. But you must ensure that the reservoir is topped up and harvest the young crops at the right time to obtain maximum nutrition and flavour from them.

Unlike other types of hydroponic systems the EasyGreen is one where the use of soil or compost in the trays is allowed and so is ideal for long growing crops such as wheatgrass, baby salads or sunflower greens. This system is undoubtedly the best no matter what sorts of sprouts or mini plant you wish to grow in yours and provides you with a regular convenient supply of foods to boost your health. Plus these use very little power and so won't have an adverse affect on the environment and although the cost to purchase is high initially you will soon begin to reap the health benefits from using it.

Each EasyGreen MikroFarm measures 24 by 18 inches and comes with five long trays. There are other trays available and can be brought at the same time as your initial purchase and will typically cost you around 149 in the UK to buy. It also includes a manual that is not only informative but offers guidelines and tips for growing different types of sprouts. This particular model can be purchased through UK Juicers Ltd who import it into the UK and provide with it a comprehensive sprouting book that will enable you to quickly become an expert in relation to this health subject. Also this company offer a range of high quality organic sprouting seeds to get you up and running. - 17274

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