Growing Your Own Mini Vegetables without the Need for a Garden!
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.
A large number of us know about the small stacking bean sprouters available and that you sit on a kitchen window sill. They do offer you a taste of the health benefits to be collected from seed and bean sprouts but will only do so on an irregular basis unless you set up several of these units. Often they only provide you with regular garnish sized portions. Also these systems do not have the capabilities for the use of soil need to sprout things like sunflower greens, pea shoots as well as wheatgrass which is become increasingly popular with being able to juice.
Hassle-Free Healthy Young Sprouts & Salads. Also when it comes to caring for the mini plants in the traditional sprouters or sprouting jars can be a chore as they constantly need rinsing and watering when you want to increase how much of their health enhancing nutrients you consume. It becomes even more difficult to grow them successfully when you are out at work all day.
So what will you need to if you have limited space and would like the opportunity to grow healthy micro greens and sprouts so you don’t need to keep spending money on the inferior kinds at your local store?
There is one solution that will allow you to be able to successfully grow all year round plentiful supplies of organic pea shoots, micro salads, sunflower greens, beans and seed sprouts effortlessly. There is even any need for you to use sophisticated temperature controlled indoor growing rooms that rely on hydroponics of fancy artificial lighting. The solution requires only a small amount of space, doesn’t require too much electricity to power it or a water supply or ambient lighting.
EasyGreen Makes it EasyGrown. There is a self contained fully automated miniature hydroponic system available called the EasyGreen MikroFarm that is not only simple to use but very effective in helping to produce sufficient quantities of your favourite sprouts to make a difference to your life and provide you with the health benefits they offer. This one box solution provides you with a regular supply of not only home grown mini vegetables but other plants as well. This can be used by a chef to grow good quality micro greens, garnishes and baby salads for meals in their restaurants. The EasyGreen modular system will allow you to place other units on top of one another so increasing the amount of things grown in them.
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? 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.
There is a wide selection of growing trays to choose from and can be tailored to meet the size of your growing chamber and in turn allowing you to mix and match the crops that you like to grow. In the larger trays you have the opportunity to grow crops in bulk quantities such as wheatgrass, baby salads or sunflower sprouts. Whilst the smaller (junior) trays allow you to grow up to 10 types of crops at any one time.
Simplicity Means Success. At its heart the EasyGreen watering system has a special pump that generates an ultra fine mist made from oxygenated water. This provides the most advanced and optimised growing environment for your plants. The seeds will be watered evenly so you don’t need to pre-soak them and they grow much more quickly. Plus the mist created provides oxygen that the delicate young crops roots need. This generator gives you control completely over the ventilated growing chamber as with each watering it is purged with clean and filtered air. One other advantage to using this system is that there are no watering jets or dripper nozzles that can become blocked over time with use.
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.
UK Juicers are one of the best suppliers of juicers in the United Kingdom and sell a range of related items for a health lifestyle. One of their most popular items is the excalibur dehydrator which is well know as one of the best dehydrators. Take a look at their online shop for more information and articles on best a healthy lifestyle.
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October 24 2009 04:36 am | Nutrition