Tomato plants can be grown easily in your home, whether you have a garden or just a balcony and it is very rewarding. First of all, decide which tomato to choose for your area and your taste preferences: determinate varieties grow in bushes, and indeterminate ones climb and spread. Growing your plants indoors is recommended to be done about six to eight weeks before the last expected frost that is hard in your area. Fill small containers with a good quality seed starting mix and make sure that the container receives ample light and heat since tomatoes grow well in media that has been warmed to 70-75°F (21-24°C).
When the planted seed has germinated and the seedlings have grown about 2 inches and produced the first sets of leaves they are ready to be transplanted into new pots or directly into a garden. Tomatoes have to have a least 6 hours of direct sunlight so it should be placed in the final location where the plants receive a lot of sunlight. When planting use part of the stem because tomatoes can propagate extra roots along the stem thus making it stronger. If the grower decided on staking or using cages, this must assist in the vertical training and keep the fruit from the ground.
Frequency is important–water your plants as frequently as possible but avoid showering the plant and wetting the leaves because this leads to many diseases. Feed your plants after every two to three weeks with a fertilizer that has equal proportions of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Growth regulation: Removal of the lower leaves and suckers, which are small shoots between the stem and branches, also seen in the plant will lead to improvement of the growth of the fruits.
In few months it takes, depending on the variety, you will be getting your tomatoes ripen. Some seeds are ripe when they are still on the plant, and these ones should be harvested when they are bright in color, and the skin is somewhat soft to the touch. If taken proper attention and time, it is very easy and fruitful to have fresh tomatoes grown at the home garden which offers much better taste compared to the tomatoes sold in supermarkets.

Considering mushrooms as one of nature’s best kept secrets, people have not realized that this food item has numerous types each having different flavours, types of textures and ways of preparation. Edible mushrooms are many and some of the most common ones are: Button mushroom – pack and mild flavoured. When this mushroom grows older, it becomes the cremini with a slightly more umami taste, and ‘the chop stick’ or the portobello with a meaty texture and strong flavor, that is usually used in dishes such as vegetarians burgers.
In addition to the widely used mushrooms there are some special mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms which enjoy high demand in Asian countries because of their unique taste and nutritious value. Shiitake mushrooms are tasty and versatile and contain flavonoids and antioxidants, B vitamins, vitamins D and potassium. Oyster mushrooms are, once again, another type of mushroom that is tender and bland and usually preferred for stir-frying or using in soup dishes.
In the wild there are certain things that foragers look for, and one of them is the golden-fleshed, slightly peppery-flavored chanterelle. These are the mushroooms which many find tasty but they have to be picked properly as some of them are poisonous substitutes. Another kind of mushrooms that has a vast demand is morel mushrooms because of their honeycomb like structure and nutty flavor.
Medical mushrooms also have a great importance in the conventional and holistic medicine and healing. Three of the most researched mushrooms for their numerous and diverse health benefits include Reishi, which tends to the immune system, Lion’s Mane, for the improvement of the brain functions and lastly the turkey tail which is also crucial for the immune system functionality.
The BW Addy mushroom; like any other category of mushrooms, there exist the hazardous ones such as the amanita which is deadly and the psilocybin mushrooms containing psychoactive compounds. This rich variety makes mushrooms a very interesting subject of study and they are a combination of culinary delicacies, possible healing properties, and the natural enigma.