This is for all the black thumbs out there. Simple Garden is a gardening kit that contains everything you need to start gardening in your home, including a specially-designed planter to improve air flow, water circulation, and nutrient absorption, as well as seed packets, a planting template, a planting stick and a guide to cultivating healthy plants.
Simple Garden, designed by Fertile Earth, was the 2010 IDEA Winner. Other products by Fertile Earth include the LiteStick ($29.98), an innovative LED light-sensor you stick in your plant's soil that comes on automatically when the light in the room dips below a certain level, and the WaterStik ($15.98), which also sticks in the soil to let you know when you need to water and when you've overwatered.
The Simple Garden Starter Kit retails for $29.98 and can be purchased here, and comes in two sizes: the standard size is approximately 12" x 12" x 7.75", while the junior size, known as the Simple Garden Jr., is approximately 4" x 4" x3".
What do you think? Great idea or not?
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I used to have a severe black thumb so I can appreciate this, but it all seems a bit wasteful. I cured my black thumb by talking to a botanist and asking my boyfriend (green thumb) to tell me what I was doing wrong. Learning the traditional way puts us in touch with the plant's life. This method is interesting but I'm not crazy about all the plastic involved either.
Since, I've been looking for a way to keep plants alive in my apartment I'm intrigued.
in general, if plants don't survive in your home, it's because they don't get enough light or they are improperly watered. The real key is to pick plants that suit the space rather than always being disappointed that you can't grow tomatoes in your dark corners. Ask at the local nursery which plants suit your needs.
I think this is really cute, but I agree with Emmi. Read a book. Figure it out.
In general the people I know who have black thumbs are more absent minded about caring for plants than anything else. That moisture meter alone would probably save most of them from killing their plants. Especially if it has a flashing light or noise built in.
The rest of the stuff I think isn't that great and rather wasteful. Nothing a good book on container gardening won't fix.
I have been seeing these at the store but didn't know really what they were. I like the idea and even though some of these things might seem "wasteful" to others, I'm very good at finding ways to reuse stuff. I'm totally getting one of these.