GET THE BENEFITS OF GARDENING WITHOUT THE SWEAT MOVE YOUR VEGGIES INDOORS!
perlite) or purchase plant starts at your local nursery. Within a month, your lettuce leaves will be ready to eat! PLANT PEAS OR CARROTS UNDER GROW LIGHTS. Many people assume fruiting plants like peas and carrots are impossible to grow indoors. But with powerful grow lights, almost any plant can flourish! Try planting seeds or starts in pots and sunning them with fluorescent shop lights. The plants will take longer to mature than outdoors, but you’ll get there in the end. Other fruiting plants, like peppers and tomatoes, require hand pollination to thrive inside. CREATE A MUSHROOM-GROWING COMPOST BIN. You only need six things to grow mushrooms: a wooden tray, compost, mushroom spawn, a heating pad, a thermometer, and a spray bottle. Fill the tray with compost and a pinch of spawn, keep the compost at a toasty 70 degrees F with the heating pad for three weeks, and moisten it with sprays of water regularly until mushrooms appear. Go to Better Homes & Gardens for an online guide, or purchase a mushroom kit or terrarium. The more time, patience, and creativity you put into your indoor garden, the more it will reward you. To dig deeper (pun intended), pick up a copy of “Indoor Kitchen Gardening: Turn Your Home Into a Year-Round Vegetable Garden” by Elizabeth Millard or check out The Provident Prepper’s “Indoor Gardening” playlist on YouTube.
Gardening is incredibly satisfying — but in the summer, you may wonder whether the fresh produce is worth suffering through the heat, the humidity, and a stiff back. If so, try moving your garden indoors! Inside, you can get the same mental and physical benefits without the sweat. Here are three creative ways to grow food indoors. GROW YOUR LETTUCE HYDROPONICALLY. Lettuce is one of the quickest and easiest crops to grow inside because it thrives in relatively low light. You can buy a lettuce-growing kit for less than $100 at Walmart or off Amazon and either start the sprouts from seed in a moist growing medium (environmental journalist Katherine Gallagher recommends rockwool, lightweight clay aggregate, coconut fiber, or
Jury Awards Our Client $3.5 Million KEEPING THE STREAK ALIVE FOR OUR CLIENTS
Virginia Lawyers Weekly (VLW) is a newspaper for lawyers published every week in Virginia. Every spring, VLW publishes its list of the largest verdicts and settlements in Virginia from the previous year. I am happy to report that our firm’s results have been included in the list every year since 2017 except for 2020, a year in which we had zero trials due to the pandemic. That means in 5 of the last 6 years, we’ve made the list. And in three of those years, one of our cases made the top 10. Our chances of making the list again in 2023 got a boost in May when a federal jury in Roanoke, Virginia, awarded our very deserving client $3.5 million. As of May, that verdict was the highest verdict awarded by a jury in Virginia so far this year according to the list of verdicts and settlements published weekly by VLW. For our client, the journey toward that great result started in 2019. That year, she was a passenger in a car driving down Interstate 81 when a truck abruptly changed lanes, clipped the car in which she was riding, and sent it careening off the interstate, flipping multiple times. Our client survived but not without harm. She suffered a life-altering traumatic brain injury. Since then, she has been plagued with chronic headaches, vision problems, and other related challenges. After initially hiring my co-counsel, Jonathan Wren, we were asked to get involved in the case and take it to trial with Jonathan. A lot of hard work and teamwork went into obtaining the result for our client. Jonathan and I spoke daily, worked nights and weekends, traveled for depositions to New York and Charlotte, NC, went through two mediations, and devoted a lot of resources to putting on the best possible case we could at trial. And that’s true in all our cases. Our typical case involves another law firm asking us to team up with them because, let’s face it, these cases are all consuming. Handling
Jonathan Wren and Kevin Mottley on the steps of the federal courthouse in Roanoke, Virginia, after a jury awarded $3.5 million to our client.
one correctly can easily devour an attorney’s entire practice. We’re glad to help out and to lend a hand in whatever way makes the most sense when another firm asks us to help. That usually means we’re being asked to come into a case to build it into a winner. Looking back, I feel blessed to have a team around me who made this victory possible. If you know someone with a brain injury who needs legal help, or if you’re an attorney looking to beef up your trial team on one of these cases, give us a call!
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