February 9, 2011 @ 1:16 am
Turn Your Kitchen Into A Sanctuary
Whether you have a tiny, cramped kitchen or a have a large working space, you can learn how to enjoy eating and preparing home cooked meals. Aside from appliances and fancy cookbooks, every cook needs to work with fresh ingredients. Although NYC is well known for having some of the world’s most rare foods, they are not easily accessible to all. Instead of substituting fresh vegetables for sodium laden canned goods you can create a hydroponics garden and grow your own. Because hydroponics uses a sophisticated system that eliminates soil, you can grow your produce in confidence. As an added bonus, your crops will always be full, ripe and delicious.
Plants usually get their nutrients from soil, and since your hydroponics garden will be dirt free you should use a water soluble nutrient spray to help your vegetables to thrive. You can purchase nutrient spray along with all of the other supplies that you will need from New York Hydroponic. They have two locations; one in the Bronx and the other in Brooklyn. These stores are easily accessible by subway, taxi or bus. Because all of your gardening supplies will be lightweight, you won’t need to worry about how hard it will be to lug them up a flight of stairs or down the street.
The last, and most important that you will need are a set of high powered grow lights. These grow lights will ensure that your plants get the proper amount of ’sun,’ but you will never need to worry about incurring a high energy bill. Overall, growing your own produce will be a rewarding experience because it will not require much on your end. Bring a fresh salad with you to work everyday for lunch or enjoy your home grown vegetables while you sit to a meal that you prepared for your family.
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