Something new hit the market recently, a Click & Grow Kit. This $59 kit is a battery powered electronic smartpot that grows plants without watering and fertilizing. We're not sure what to think but we'd love to receive a kit for testing. This is what the manufacterer says about it "Click & Grow is an easy-to-use electronic smartpot that grows plants without watering and fertilizing. You don’t have to have any knowledge about gardening, instead everything will be taken care by the smart Read more [...]

Developed by Japan’s Daiwa House Industry, the parking-space-sized cube can grow leafy greens and root vegetables like turnips and radishes. The self-contained system comes with a water recycling system and adjustable fluorescent lighting (instead of sunlight) to nourish the plants. Under the right conditions, the cube can grow up to 10,000 heads of lettuce per year--all for approximately 45 cents a vegetable, when electricity costs are taken into account, according DigInfo. The Agri-Cube’s Read more [...]

Paris could one day get a taste of the tropics. The French architecture firm SOA has come up with a greenhouse project that would make fresh, local tropical fruit — bananas in particular — more accessible in the cooler climate of Paris. The design, called Urbanana, is a vertical, six-story, all-glass greenhouse that would fit between already existing buildings. Unlike many vertical farm designs that stand alone in the form of a farm tower, this design is “easy to insert into the urban Read more [...]

Q: Is one type of rockwool system (eg., ebb& flood) better than another? A: As long as appropriate air/water ratios, fertilizer concentration, EC, pH and any other critical factors are maintained properly, the actual means of irrigating the plants does not matter. More appropriately care should be taken to choose the correct rockwool product (slab, block, BAB-12, Baby Leach) and size for the system. Commercial growers favor drip irrigation with growing blocks on top of slabs for tomatoes, Read more [...]

Fresh basil has heightened flavor, better texture and offers a healthier you. Buying dried, packaged Basil at the store gives you a sad rendition of this fine cooking herb. About 20 varieties of Basil (Ocimum basilicum) grown today are popular for culinary uses. Some are more pungent flavored than others, working best in different recipes. There is a lot more to basil than cooking Greek and Italian food. There are unique flavored basils and those used in different nationality cuisine. Oils Read more [...]