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.

Source: iGreenSpot

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The Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden has been designed to allow anyone to quickly, simply and sustainably grow mushrooms in their own home. The mushroom garden contains all you need for at least two crops of home grown mushrooms that can be first harvested after only 10 days.

The Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden is a complete kit to allow you to grow fresh mushrooms with the minimum of effort. Designed to be placed on a windowsill, the mushroom garden only requires misting with water twice a day to allow beautiful homegrown mushroom growth. A mister is supplied to allow you to tend to the mushroom garden and by following the simple advice you can have your first crop of mushrooms in only 10 days.

The Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden was designed to be sustainable, bringing local farming into your home. The soil used for the mushrooms is 100% recycled coffee grounds, a safe and sustainable resource. The mushroom garden should provide you with up to 1lb of mushrooms per crop and should grow at least 2 crops of mushrooms, it has been known to provide up to 4!

The Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden is a great way to get into home gardening, without having to leave the house. The mushroom garden allows anyone to grow fresh mushrooms to cook in a sustainable way.

Source: Back To The Roots

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Industrial designer Jacky Wu has designed a simple artificial leaf to aid us in our plant watering.  This concept design has been named Dew Drop and aims to keep your plants watered without you ever needing to move a watering can.

The Dew Drop works from the basic principles of condensation, thereby extracting the water vapour out of the air and letting it run into your plant pot.  By simply placing the artificial leaf into the plant pot and plugging it in you should be ensuring your plant stays watered, with the water in the air condensing on the leaf and being funneled down into the plant pot.

Unless you happen to run your house solely from solar power (or any other green electricity source) the green benefits of such a device seem limited. Though you would obviously save yourself a small amount of water use, the power needs of such a device could render it pointless and may even make it a more harmful way for you to water your plants.  It may also have a limited effect in a building that has air conditioning (AC) or a dehumidifier, as the water vapour in the air will have already been removed to some extent from the area.

The Dew Drop should water your plant well in the right environment and would certainly be useful to those who easily forget to water their plants.  How natural it would look though to have multiple plants trailing electrical leads is another matter.

Source: Yanko Design

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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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3. Volksgarden Rotating Garden

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!

Source: Omega Garden

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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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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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