The Home Allotment Willow Planter helps you to grow fresh salad, vegetables, or herbs at home. The natural looking planters are a great way to make use of small outdoor areas, such as a balcony, patio or roof terrace for home growing.

The Home Allotment Willow Planter has been designed to provide you with a stylish and natural looking planter to help encourage use of even small outdoor areas for the growth of plants. Each planter is made from willow panels that are provided in flat pack form and are easy to put together, this allows you to be able to disassemble the planter for winter storage.  The planter includes a Home Allotment planting bag to plant your crops into.

The Home Allotment Willow Planter is available in 3 different sizes, herb planter, salad planter and potato planter. The herb planter is 40 cm (15.7 in) wide x 30 cm (11.8 in) deep x 20 cm (7.9 in) high and has a 19 litre capacity, the salad planter is 70 cm (27.5 in) wide x 35 cm (13.8 in) deep x 30 cm (11.8 in) high and has a 62 litre capacity, and the potato planter is 40 cm (15.7 in) wide x 40 cm (15.7 in) deep x 50 cm 19.7 in) high and has a 69 litre capacity.

The Home Allotment Willow Planter is a beautiful, natural looking planter to allow you to start to grow you own vegetables and herbs at home. The planters are great for making the most out of small areas during the growing months and are easy to store away during the winter. Growing your own food helps you to know what went into it, does not require the long distance transport that supermarket veg can have caused, and the plants help to add a bit of cheering greenery to your home.

The Home Allotment Willow Planter is yours for just £19.95.

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The Pest Free Elevated Garden is designed to allow you to produce stronger, healthier, pest free plants without the aid of chemical pesticides. The greenhouse protects against pests, allowing your plants to grow in warmer, sunnier conditions which helps to encourage higher yields on your plants.

The Pest Free Elevated Garden raises your plants away from many common garden pests such as slugs, snails, rabbits and rodents. The base is roughly 51cm (20 in) high and does also allow you to tend to your plants whilst you’re sat in a chair. This is ideal for people with limited mobility who have trouble bending over. The greenhouse helps to protect your plants from pests without pesticides as it has insect netting hung over all sides. This allows the rain and sunlight through to your plants while keeping the insects out. It will additionally offer some protection to your plants from larger pests such as birds, cats or dogs. The side netting is easily pulled up when required to allow you access to your plants.

The Pest Free Elevated Garden is constructed from a PVC UV-resistant frame and base. It also includes 7mm clear poly sheeting that can be used to cover the sides of the greenhouse over the netting. This sheeting allows the garden to be used more like a traditional greenhouse would, keeping the plants within warmer and protected from the elements which is great for seedlings or for extending the plants growing season.

The Pest Free Elevated Garden measures 124.5 cm x 122 cm x 122cm (49 in x 48 in x 48 in). Because the garden is raised up from ground level, the temperature of the soil for the plants is higher, helping them to grow more vigorously. The plants also have more access to the sunlight without being so easily shaded by other objects around the garden. 

Though this elevated garden does prevent the need for the use of hazardous chemical pesticides, the use of PVC plastic is not eco-friendly in the slightest. There are plenty of other types of eco-friendly plastics that could be used instead. The manufacturers could also have used sustainable bamboo rather than use plastic. So a great idea, but it’d be pretty easy to make it completely eco-friendly with just a few changes.

The Pest Free Elevated Garden costs $599.95 and assembles within 2 hours using the supplied tools.

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The Eco-Drop is a concept to use the liquids that worms produce from breaking down waste food as a fertilizer for a garden. The concept helps to prevent harmful chemicals entering the food chain and to prevent water contamination. It also helps to recycle a households food waste into an effective fertilizer for a garden.

The Eco-Drop concept has been designed by Seung Kim to help combat the problems of water contamination and to help reduce the amount of household waste going to landfill. The Eco-Drop would work by using worms to break down organic matter waste (like left over food, vegetable peelings etc). Worms would feed on this waste which would be placed with them into the main chamber of the device. As the worms feed, they excrete the digested matter and break the matter down.

This creates a liquid or worm juice that makes a great fertilizer for a garden. Many use worms to help break down their waste for composting currently. The difference with this concept is that it allows you to make use of the rich fertilizing liquid cleanly and easily. The Eco-Drop allows you to use this fluid as a fertilizer when watering a garden through a sprinkler system. The device hopes to take out the effort in using this form of fertilizer, there is no heavy lifting, no hard work like that of covering the ground in more compost and there is no messy extraction of the fluid. To use the worm juice you simply fill a cup like part of the device with the fluid from a nozzle  located at the bottom of the main chamber, the cup part then attaches to the sprinkler part to allow you to water the garden with a worm juice and water mix.

Chemical fertilizers can cause a lot of damage to the ecosystem. The chemicals find their way down into the water table and are washed into drains which can lead into rivers and lakes. The fertilizers change the natural balance of these water habitats and can cause devastating results. The worm juice though is a natural product, that will not effect the ecosystem in the same way. It also helps to reduce down the amount of waste a household would send to landfill and could help to encourage a household to grown some of their own foods. The concept would not require any long term running costs while providing you with a useful resource for your garden.

Source: iGreenSpot

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With it being the wet season, particularly in Europe, it makes sense to collect as much rain water as possible ready for the spring. Due to growing populations, clean water is becoming increasingly scarce. Rather than use fresh drinking water to water your garden, why not just collect rain water? It’s free! If space is an issue, a wall-mounted water butt is a simple device to collect rain water without needing a large garden.

Another great use of rain water is for washing cars and windows. Usually, any sediment falls to the bottom of a water tank, which means the water is certainly clean enough to do some cleaning with it.

The water butt can hold a total of 100 litres (22 gallons) of rain water, which is collected from the down-pipe from the guttering typically found on UK homes. Once the water tank is full, the extra water flows out the overflow, which is basically down the downpipe underneath the water tank. This means you can install the water tank, and then forget it, as it looks after itself.

The kit includes all fixtures and fittings, including a tap and connectors to your guttering downpipe. Made from black UV protected Polyethylene, the tank measures 46cm (w) x 23 cm (d) x 122cm (h). The 100 litre water butt costs £99, and you can also get larger water tanks too.

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The Smart Solar Roto Basket is a gadget that will automatically turn your hanging baskets so that all of the plants in the basket get equal exposure to the sun. If the sunlight is brighter, the basket turns more quickly. The gadget will also help ensure patches of soil in the hanging baskets don’t dry out too quickly.

The basket rotator can only handle a maximum weight of 27lbs, which means that you can only really use it on lighter baskets. The reviews on the device are not too great, meaning you might be better off getting a simple twisting hook and turning the basket manually every evening. The The Smart Solar Roto Basket is available for $14.95.

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The Neuton CE 6 Mower is a rechargeable battery-powered lawn mower for the garden. Rather than using a petroleum-based fuel, the mower just uses batteries. A single charge of the 360kWh battery is enough to mow up to 15,000 sq. ft. or 1/3 acre of grass.

Theoretically, you could use solar panels to charge these batteries to be completely eco-friendly, but if it takes 12 hours to charge a battery via the mains, then it would probably take 20 to 30 hours to charge via a large solar panel.

The internal rechargeable battery can be charged in about 12 hours, and supposedly cost just 10 cents per full charge. The manufacturers also claim that the battery is 95% recyclable (why not 100%?) and will last up to 5 years with proper care. A spare battery will cost you around $100. The mower itself, which comes with a battery and charge will cost you the best part of $500.

Since the lawn mower is not directly connected to the mains, its ideal for people with large or remote gardens. I can’t imagine professional gardeners using one though, as they’d get through 10 batteries a day!

Source: Coolest-Gadgets

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Jin-wook Hwang is a designer that has come up with the idea of a seed bomb to allow the artificial replanting of vegetation in areas that have become arid.

Man-made activities such as deforestation can turn landscapes into a desert or ecosystem with very little life. The seed bomb uses a biodegradable plastic pod to rapidly and easily replant an area with seedlings to create a new ecosystem. The pods contain some soil and nutrients to encourage the seeds to germinate and grow.

As the seedling grows into a full plant, the pod biodegrades around it, allowing the plant to mature. Additionally, the plastic pods act as a mini-greenhouse, which gives the seeds and seedlings the additional warmth to grow into strong plants before being exposed to the harsh environment outside the pod.

I wonder if the main ‘rockets’ could be made out of cardboard? As littering the area with plastic is not a great idea. Using paper or cardboard would be useful, as it would break down easily and quickly.

Source: YankoDesign

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The Rapid No-Turn Composter is a specially designed and patented composter that rapidly increases the rate at which compost breaks down without having to manually mix the compost yourself. The composter takes just 12 weeks to achieve mature compost, compared to 6 months for other types of composter.

After about a month, partially composted waste is moved from the top chamber down to the middle chamber of the composter, simply by removing a panel. As the material continues to break down, the mature compost falls to the bottom chamber. The mature compost is accessible by simply removing the bottom panel. The bottom chamber has a number of aeration holes to ensure the bacteria get enough oxygen to properly decompose the food matter without nasty odours.

The composter itself is made from a black plastic (polypropylene) that absorbs energy from the sun to increase the rate of breakdown. The plastic itself is partially sourced from recycled plastics. I’m not sure why it’s not 100% from recycled plastic, seems a shame really. Anyway, it costs an eye-watering $300 dollars, so probably out of the price-range for most people.

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The AeroGarden gadget (Amazon UK or Amazon US) is a kit that allows you to easily cultivate lettuce, cherry tomatoes, herbs, chili peppers and more in an energy-efficient environment in your home! The kit comes with pre-seeded growth medium, fertilizer, two daylight-spectrum bulbs and the grow pod itself. The plants start to grow within 24 hours, and the plants mature 5 times faster compared to ordinary soil.

The AeroGarden system monitors itself to maintain the optimum growing conditions and it will alert you if the plants need nutrients or watering. Regardless of outdoor conditions, you have the chance to grow fresh herbs and salad fruits all year round. The kit makes it completely hassle-free to grow fresh produce, needing less than 10 minutes attention per month.

The AeroGarden will automatically optimise the light/dark growing cycle depending on the plant type. The eco-gadget is inspired by technology from NASA. The only downsides according to the reviews, are the noisy pumps and short life (6 months) of the bulbs.

The AeroPonics AeroGarden is available on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

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