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

by NickJaggs

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?

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.

EasyGreen Makes it EasyGrown. The EasyGreen MikroFarm is a fully automated self contained miniature hydroponic system that is not only extremely effective but simple to use to produce in sufficient amount your favourite sprouts providing you with their health benefits. This is a one box solution to the problem of being able to produce a regular supply of mini vegetables grown at home plus much more. As a chef it allows you to grow good quality baby salads, micro greens and garnishes which can be used in a restaurant. What the EasyGreen system allows you to do is piggybank other units on top of each of so increasing their growing capacity.

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.

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. 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.

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.

With the EasyGreen trays unlike other hydroponic systems it allows you to use compost and soil in them which is beneficial to those crops that grow for longer such as sunflower greens, wheatgrass or baby salads. It doesn't matter what types of mini plants or sprouts you want to grow this system is undoubtedly the best on the market to provide a convenient regular supply of health boosters for you. The amount of power it uses won't be a burden on the environment and although the outlay initially is high this is soon compensated by the health benefits it offers you.

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.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.

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