The Spice-Versa is a concept for a hydroponic herb growing system specifically designed for those with small homes. Being able to grow fresh herbs at home has eco-friendly benefits and can help fragrance your room with refreshing herb scents.

The Spice-Versa is a concept design by Ana Arguezo for a system of growing herbs at home without taking up a large amount of space. The system allows the herb planter to hang with the plants growing upside down, the planter can be hung from a ceiling or a wall anywhere, high up enough to not take up any needed space but still allow access to the herbs themselves.

The Spice-Versa is made up of 6 sections surrounding a central light, the light used is a mercury spot light which is perfect for helping plants to grow. Each section is filled with a biodegradable plant gel, this provides the plants with all the nutrients they require and supplies water to the growing plants. The gel locks away water efficiently, allowing you to only need to water the herb garden once every month.

Growing plants indoors is a great natural way to keep the air fresh and clean, the herbs also help add their fragrance to a room, helping to make it more pleasant to live in. By growing your own herbs you have a constant source of fresh herbs for cooking, herbs that have not incurred any travel miles to get to your plate.

The Spice-Versa concept would allow anyone to be able to grow herbs easily in their home, no matter what the size. The herbs themselves would add a green touch to any room, keeping the air pure and refreshing, or to any plate, helping to liven up any meal with home fresh flavour.

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The LabBox Grower is thought to be the smallest fully contained hydroponic grow box in the world. The device allows you to be able to provide a plant with everything it requires to allow it to grow to harvest, letting you grow herbs or your favorite plants any time of year.

The LabBox Grower makes use of advancing hydroponic technologies to provide a miniature bio containment unit. The grower uses high intensity LEDs to provide the light a plant requires to grow and a automated drip irrigation system to provide all the additional nutrients to allow the plant to thrive.

The LabBox Grower can also be controlled through your web browser, iPhone or iPad by downloading the software provided. This allows you to control the temperature, lighting and nutrient delivery controls, to help you make sure your plants get exactly what is required even if you are far away from the grower. The grower can additionally be interfaced to allow updates to twitter to inform you of it’s status and health.

Though growing plants in window boxes or in gardens will usually require a lot less electricity than this unit they cannot produce plants and crops all year long. By using LEDs to supply the lighting, the grower consumes less energy than it otherwise would. The LabBox Grower allows you to have a ready supply of useful plants like herbs, fruit or vegetables all year, without requiring as much electricity or space as some hydroponics systems can require.

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The Self Sustaining Indoor Garden is perfect if you don’t have a garden, but you want to grow your own herbs, flowers or vegetables indoors. Just like the AeroPonics Accelerated Indoor Garden, the Self Sustaining Indoor Garden provides all of the light, water, and nutrients needed to grow almost any plant you want.

The light produces just the right mix of wavelengths to quickly grow your plants, whilst the water pumps ensure that the roots don’t dry out. The water contains the nutrients needed by the plants, without the need for soil. There are 6 growth pods which are rotated automatically to ensure all of the plants get an even amount of light and nutrients.

The growth techniques used by the indoor garden gadget means that plants grow up to 50% quicker than conventional plant growing methods. The garden gadget also adjusts the lighting and nutrient delivery for each of the pods during the different growth stages, namely seed germination, initial seedling growth and mature plant growth.

The Self Sustaining Indoor Garden is available for $149.95 plus delivery.

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The Volksgarden Rotating Garden is a circular hydroponics system that allows you to grow up to 80 plants in less than 9 square feet! The Volksgarden Rotating Garden rotates completely every 45 minutes, making the most efficient use of light, water and nutrients. The rotating garden is perfect if you don’t have a great deal of space, but at a diameter of 48″, and being 76″ tall by 30″ wide, you’re going to need some space for it!

The Volksgarden wheel is made from food-grade molded plastic, with the structural components being made of power-coated steel. Each compartment is designed to hold 3 inches of nutrient medium. Nutrients and water are added to the lower water tray, where all plants receive nutrients as they pass through the tray.

The aspect where the rotating garden is not quite so eco-friendly is where it needs a high power lamp (400W, 600W or 1000W), although there are some florescent lamps you could use instead. Just a snip at $1995 USD, but you do get a 10% if you buy two!

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If you don’t have a garden, but you still want to be green-fingered, you might find the Aeroponics Power Plant Growing Machine interesting. Using technology pioneered by NASA, the growing machine allows you to grow all kinds of plants all year round using a soil-less plant-growing technique. The system uses a series of microjets that constantly sprays roots with super-oxygenated nutrient rich water to help plants grow.

You simply add water to the nutrient mix, add the nutrient solution to the specially designed sponge strip, sow your seeds in the sponge and stick the growing machine on your windowsill. The seeds will start to germinate in just a few days, meaning you don’t need to wait long to enjoy the fruits of your (albeit minor) labour.

The growing machine runs on a 12 volt power supply which drives the microjet pump. Spare sponges are not yet available. Once your nutrient solution runs out, you can just use common nutrient mixes as available from all garden centres.

What are the benefits?

• Grow herbs, flowers and fruit all-year round
• No need for soil, so no works or pesky insects
• Very easy to use, very low maintanance
• Very low energy usage, so cheap to run

Update 4th Jan 2011: Unfortunately, the Power Plant Growing Machine no longer appears to be available. We’ll update this article if it does become available again.

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