When it comes to growing your own food, I am a complete geek! I have every River Cottage Series ever done by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and I grow vegetables in an old bathtub outside my back door. However, even though my heart is in the right place, I do tend to forget to water them quite often!
When I came across the AeroGarden I was quite impressed, its crazy actually, you plug it in, plant a “pod” and then it electronically controls the light and how much water is fed to the plants, all you have to do is top it up with water when it asks you too. It allegedly can make plants grow 3 times quicker!
I’ll be honest though, I am having trouble making my mind up about this gadget, I mean, yes its cool, and yes it solves a problem, but, its VERY lazy, and with a price tag of £119, you could instead keep yourself in stock of fresh supermarket herbs for a very long time!
It is worth saying that you can also buy tomato, salad leaf, and chilli pepper seed kits (which are all £15 a pop!), but I really don’t think that you are going to get a BUMPER crop in this small space!
I like the idea behind this, but, its definitely not for me!
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