I gave two sprout lessons today

[Guest guest]

The first one was to our Access a ride bus driver who was driving us to the

mall. He heard me talking to Alan about his blood test results and his a1c and I

was going over his results.

The guy says " Do you know anything about diabetes? " and I sais " sure, what do

you need to know " . 30 minutes later the guy knew all about sprouting, about

broccoli sprouts, I showed him the videos on my Flip and he took my youtube id

so he could watch my sprouting videos.

Alan was going " oh my god, you talk to EVERYBODY " . LOL

Then tonight my next door neighbor (who had never seen my living room shelf

system, well I said to her 'want to see something cool? " she came in and let me

tell you, she was ooooohing and aaaahing and when I showed her the coco coir,

she got hysterical.

As she left my house, her kids were coming home and she yelled out 'She grows

things in coconuts " . I got hysterical.

Taught her all about sprouts and microgreens and everything.

Today was a good teaching day.

Melody

[Guest guest]

Oh wow, 2 feet.  I think I'll just give him the packet and let him pot it and

grow it.  I think they use chia and the cat likes that.  But they use it from

the chia pet, not with an organic growing form.  My coir block should be on its

way.  Maybe I can pot it for them even.

 

My mom gave me catnip tea as a kid when I had pneumonia.  What else is it good

for?

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:23 PM

Subject: Re: I gave two sprout lessons today

 

I grow catnip outside on my berm, and it grows up about 2 feet.

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Reply-To: <sproutpeople >

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 20:21:44 -0700 (PDT)

To: " sproutpeople " <sproutpeople >

Subject: Re: I gave two sprout lessons today

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> I stopped at a thrift shop today to see if I could find an inexpensive

> bookshelf. I am sure I can find one around here sometime. Think I'll tell my

> neighbor, , tomorrow that I need a book shelf that is strong enough to

> hold my garden stuff and he and his lady friend across the street like to go

> looking at yard sales and trash, etc. He found brand new cabinets to put in a

> studio apartment he finished on the side of his mobile. His previous room had

> blown off during the hurricane in 2005. He rebuilt it all with mostly

> salvaged materials. He had fallen off a roof years ago (in Construction

> work) and didn't think he'd walk again, but he has. Most of the bones in his

> legs were broken and sometimes he has major problems with back or feet but he

> does so much to his place and he has a green thumb. I will give him the

> catnip seeds I bought for him (they share a cat). I'll ask him if he wants me

> to get them started. Does it grow about the

> size of greens? Wish I could get baby spinach to grow there, but think I'll

> put in one of the tomato trees. Probably won't grow until the fall as that is

> more of a cool weather plant I think, as is broccoli. I have starters I can

> use in the fall for planting outside. I wsant to start strawberries too but I

> think we have to get little plants, bare root or something. Guess I have to

> study propagating.

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> I am going to copy your shelf idea as it sounded great. I want to grow

> sunnies (I got a big can of them). along with the sprouts. Eventually I'll

> do a tray or two of microgreens. From what one of the videos said, it might

> be only 7 weeks or so before the greens come up in the Aerogarden. We'll see.

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> Did you see the video where a guy really had plants planted in coconut in

> coir? That was interesting and I'd not have thought they were big enough for

> that.

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> Carolyn Wilkerson

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> From: Melody <eliz7212@... <mailto:eliz7212%40verizon.net> >

> To: sproutpeople <mailto:sproutpeople%40yahoogroups.com>

> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:01 PM

> Subject: I gave two sprout lessons today

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> The first one was to our Access a ride bus driver who was driving us to the

> mall. He heard me talking to Alan about his blood test results and his a1c and

> I was going over his results.

>

> The guy says " Do you know anything about diabetes? " and I sais " sure, what do

> you need to know " . 30 minutes later the guy knew all about sprouting, about

> broccoli sprouts, I showed him the videos on my Flip and he took my youtube id

> so he could watch my sprouting videos.

>

> Alan was going " oh my god, you talk to EVERYBODY " . LOL

>

> Then tonight my next door neighbor (who had never seen my living room shelf

> system, well I said to her 'want to see something cool? " she came in and let

> me tell you, she was ooooohing and aaaahing and when I showed her the coco

> coir, she got hysterical.

>

> As she left my house, her kids were coming home and she yelled out 'She grows

> things in coconuts " . I got hysterical.

>

> Taught her all about sprouts and microgreens and everything.

>

> Today was a good teaching day.

>

> Melody

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