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how do the roots of that basil plant not rot in the hydroponic pretty thing?

I can't believe I just read the manual for that hydroponic vessel.
The answer is: pretty thing contains clay pellets

While I'm here,
Broadway Panhandler on Broome St downtown always has a Creuset sale and sometimes has a special Creuset sale. It's such a wonderful store that Sur La Table is in horning in on their game, just blocks away.

Broadway Panhandler has stellar customer service and quality gear. And the guy that sells knives couldn't be nicer or more knowledgeable. He won't try to sell you only the most expensive thing in the store. Hopefully that will keep them in business...in the meantime, there's no reason to be buying no Creuset at Williams-Sonoma!

A quick look at conversion rates lists this white pod-o-planting at about $164. Seems like a lot to me when I could just by a pot and put some basil in it.

Sorry, but this creeps me out. Actually all house plants creep me out. They strike me as unclean, somehow, and unnatural as well. I work in healthcare, and we don't allow people with severely compromised immune systems to even have plants, potted or otherwise, in the same room with them because of the added risk of infection. Plants should be outside in a lovely garden. The only exception that I can bring myself to make is the satsuma orange that I bring into the house in the winter only (potted in nice legionairre's disease carrying potting soil, thank you very much).

let's reserve the indoors for lysol and outgassing new carpeting!

caitlin: funny... We didn't have flowers at my grandmother's funeral, at her request. My grandmother worked as a nurse until her oldest child was born, and she never liked flowers because she always had to take care of them or throw them out at work. She associated them with sickness and death, not with comfort or beauty...