The Lazy Girl’s Insta-Garden
Posted by: Nina Carbone
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5:10PM, Wednesday August 12th 2009
Who doesn’t want local, fresh vegetables—especially when those veggies are, like, from your backyard local. Just because you don’t have hours of free time to slave away in the dirt and blazing sun, doesn’t mean you can’t follow Mrs. O’s gardening lead. Behold, your very own roll out and grow garden kit. The Roll-Out Veg Mat is a cardboard roll with four different types of seed and organic fertilizer pre-sown in. You “plant” the roll as a whole, water it, and wait for veggies to make an appearance. The seed choices change as the seasons do so you’ll always have seasonal veggies. [Trendhunter]
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Laurel
wrote on August 12 2009 @ 09:37 pm: [report]
Michelle Obama’s White House garden is so inspiring! I was so gratified to see the Obamas start a garden after reading Michael Pollan’s October 2008 letter to the next president proposing a “Farmer in Chief”: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html .
You don’t need this product to start a wonderful, easy garden! You can grow an herb box in a sunny apartment window if you don’t have a patch of dirt. If you have a porch or yard, tomatoes (either of a potted variety or in the ground) will practically grow themselves—all you have to do is water them and make sure they get sun. I’ve got two tomato plants in the ground right now, one tabasco petter growing in a pot, a pot of basil, and various flowers (morning glories, marigolds and zinnias) growing. Oh! and I also have an avocado pit that I sprouted growing leaves.
Sorry…rambling…But my point is, gardening isn’t hard at all. Most plants are hardy enough to just need watering and sun/light. That’s all it takes.
CaleeKay
wrote on August 13 2009 @ 06:03 pm: [report]
i agree with Laurel.
Come on, anyone with enough time to ‘plant’ this, has enough time to do it the real way. You dont need to make a giant one, just big enough for what you want, water it and youre good.
People dont need things like this to give them an easy way out, quit being lazy and just do it right, or dont do it at all. Go pay a farmer who could use the money for his hard work and then you know its organic. /sigh