Melody, this is too cool! Thanks for sharing. I bet it would do a fine job for other sprouting needs as well, like flowers in spring.

Probably so. I know people who grow seedlings in their greenhouses and then go outside and plant them in the garden.

Me?? I just sprout. Don't have a backyard, don't have a garden.

BUT I HAVE MY SPROUTHOUSE!!

I'm going to make another video in a few days WHEN ALL THE SEEDS HAVE SPROUTED. You will SCENES OF GREENERY like you've never seen.

God, I need to get a life.


lol

mel

That is a nifty idea, Melody!

I enjoyed your YouTube video too.

You are quite clever, you know

Clever?? lol

Nah, I just got scared enough about diabetes and organ failure (especially now that I've wated the new show "Three Rivers", which is all about transplants.

Holy Cow, one never knew about what goes on in a transplant hospital.

So I decided to take control of my health BY TAKING CONTROL OF WHAT I EAT.

I made sprouting a hobby, but I'm a neat freak and I don't like dirt or soil, so I knew I would have to do the hydroponic thing (using only water), like they do in Disney World. Years ago, I took an underground tour of Disney World where they grow all their food. Now this is over 30 years ago and I have no idea if they still grow their food this way.

But I remember being in a boat ride that took you through the underground growing menageri and all I saw were vegetables, and stuff UNDER WATER. since I never forgot that image, I remembered saying to myself "wow, that's cool, someday I'll grow stuff with water".

Well, flash forward 30 years, I went online, discovered sprouting AND I MEAN I DISCOVERED SPROUTING, and the benefits, and the ease, and I needed SOMETHING to focus on (since our son is not in our lives), and I could have let that either destroy me, or I could make it work for me.

Not an easy task. I know MANY people who think I should have shot myself or walked around like a dead person, BUT WHY ON EARTH SHOULD I DO THAT.

I have Alan to take care of, and I have ME to take care of. I've spoken to my doctors who think I'm a hoot and who have said to me "I wish more of my patients would eat like you eat".

So when I started doing the sprouts thing with the trays and the mason jars, then I got the sprout rack, then I watched a youtube video on mini-greenhouses and I said 'wow, why not make a place in my kitchen for ALL MY SPROUTS). And the trays are so much easier than taking the mason jars over to the sink, rinsing and draining. I used to have 20 MASON JARS going at one time, and I would be in my kitchen every evening, doing the rinsing and the draining.

Now I can use trays (and they don't have to be the round green trays, I've also built my own trays). and I just take my bottle mister, to which I've added drops of Liquid Kelp, and I just mist mist mist two or three times a day (depending on the heat of my kitchen).

Best thing I ever did.

The sign just makes it adorable, and it lifts my spirits. And believe me, between dealing with Alan's feet, and the upcoming holidays, I need ALL THE UPLIFTING I can get.

It's a neat hobby, it feeds us, AND IT'S GOOD FOR THE BODY.

That's enough for me.

And my diabetes isn't complaining either.

lol

Thanks hon.

Melody
P.S. Now if only I could get that darn dsl wall filter off of my kitchen phone. lol