These Edible Flowers provide you with more than a colourful and beautiful pot of flowers – every flower in the box is edible. The flower kit contains everything you need to grow a delicious collection of edible flowers, helping to educate children about growing plants and over the variety of edible foods there are around them.

This Edible Flowers kit by Dunecraft contains all you need to grow 3 different edible flowering plants. Each kit contains a sprouting and growing terrarium (to help your plants flourish), seeds, planting mixture, natural gravel and full, easy to read instructions. The 3 types of seeds included are Violas, Calendulas and Chives, all of which provide you with both a beautiful look while growing and also a tasty addition to meals such as salads.

The Edible Flowers kit can help demonstrate to a child the variety of foods out there that have for whatever reason gone out of fashion. It is a great way to get a child interested in growing their own food and plants. They can enjoy watching the plant develop in the terrarium watching the beautiful flowers develop then enjoy the unique tastes from eating them. The kit can be used to demonstrate the benefits of growing your own food, though care should be taken to ensure a child is aware that not all plants and flowers are edible.

The Edible Flowers kit is a fun way to educate a child on food and gardening, while providing an attractive arrangement for your home. The use of flowers as a food stuff is sure to spark interest in any child and hopefully encourage them to try growing other produce in future.

The Edible Flowers kit is just £14.95 from Gizoo.

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This Seedbed comes as a roll of grow mat that includes all you need to grow tasty salad leaves with a minimum of effort. By just rolling the seedbed mat out and securing it you have done most of the work needed to ensuring you have a supply of salad leaves for the summer.

The Seedbed roll is a grow mat that has had seeds for different salad leaves already added to it, spaced out as the plants require for growth. On top of this it has a coating that as the leaves grow becomes an inbuilt polytunnel, to ensure optimum growing. Because of this the seedbed roll helps anyone to grow salad leaves easily. There are no worries with weeding as the mat helps to block any weeds from growing up, the polytunnel helps to keep the leaves warm and moist, plus both help to keep any pests to a minimum. This ensures a high quality of home grown salad leaves with a minimum of effort, no need to go weeding or spray your plants with any pesticides.

To plant the Seedbed roll all you need to do is clear a patch of earth to lay it flat out on, water the ground so it is nice and damp and roll the mat out. Using some of the soil pin down the edges of the mat to stop it moving or blowing away. Small rocks could even be used to help anchor it down. That is all the hard work done! From then on its a simple case of keeping it watered. As the seeds germinate they grow down into the soil and secure the mat to the ground, the leaves that grow up push the layer of plastic polytunnel film up creating the polytunnel itself. Due to perforations in this plastic film it can expand as the leaves grow tall, creating a great growing environment for your salad leaves. To access the salad the plastic film just needs to be rolled back to uncover the leaves within.

The Seedbed Roll comes in three different types, Mediterranean salad, English summer salad, and Oriental salad. The Mediterranean salad includes Chicory Italico Rosso, Rocket Dentellata, Lettuce Catalogna Cerbitta and Amaranth. The English summer salad includes Lettuce Red Batavia, Green Batavia, Tango Lettuce and Cos Lettuce. The Oriental salad includes Mustard Red Frills, Mustard Green Frills, Mizuna, Tatsoi and Pak Choi. Each Seedbed roll is estimated to produce around 50 bags of salad leaves. Remember you can simply pick the outer leaves off and leave the plant to grow, there is no need to cut off the plant totally each time you want some salad. This helps you to get the most from your plants.

Each Seedbed Roll costs just £6.99 plus delivery.

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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 Solar Powered Glowing Plant Pot is an attractive alternative to the boring old flower pots you might have around the home. Using a solar panel, the plant pot charges up during the day and gently glows during the night. Depending on how much sun light you get, you can get between 2 to 8 hours of glowing pleasure before the battery runs out.

The plant pot comes with a solar panel on a 3 metre length of cable. This means you can position the solar panel to get the best sunlight. The solar panel fits on top of a plastic stake, which means you can mount the solar panel in the plant pot if you wish.

There’s a solar plant pot that glows white for £19.95, and a colour-changing plant pot for £22.95. The plant pot is not 100% water-proof, so you just need to ensure it doesn’t become too saturated in water.

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If you have house plants, then you know it’s hassle to remember to water the plants all the time. If you don’t water the plants, they die. If you over-water the plants, you can get root-rot, and so the plant also dies. The Grobal self-watering plant pots take care of the watering for you. You just fill up the water chamber, and it will automatically add water to the plant soil to help ensure they don’t die from under- or over-watering.

The system works by using simple capillary action to draw water up from the 1-litre reservoir below the plant. As the soil dries out, water is “sucked up” and re-hydrates the soil. It appears that the soil has been designed to exploit the capillary action watering technique. As the water is used up, the simple clear plastic water level indicator can tell you when the water is running low.

The self-watering plant pots come in a range of colours. Each pot comes with the soil and nutrient packs. You just need to add your own plant!

Source: Coolest Gadgets

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