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Space age allotment

Posted: 29 Jul 2009, 21:23
by Kieran
Bit on the small side but looks very cool:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... t-veg.html

Re: Space age allotment

Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 08:39
by skeptik
Kieran wrote:Bit on the small side but looks very cool:
Cool? looks like a tampon disposal unit to me. I dont think I need a white plastic device permanently running off the mains to grow my basil. It seems to do just fine in a conventional pot on the window ledge. And with the price of electricity as it is here in Spain every little saving helps.

Re: Space age allotment

Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 09:15
by Kieran
skeptik wrote:
Kieran wrote:Bit on the small side but looks very cool:
Cool? looks like a tampon disposal unit to me.
I was thinking cool in a Space 1999 way. Hell, as a kid I thought we'd all be wearing spandex catsuits by now. :wink:

Re: Space age allotment

Posted: 30 Jul 2009, 10:56
by eatyourveg
Kieran wrote:
skeptik wrote:
Kieran wrote:Bit on the small side but looks very cool:
Cool? looks like a tampon disposal unit to me.
I was thinking cool in a Space 1999 way. Hell, as a kid I thought we'd all be wearing spandex catsuits by now. :wink:
Are you saying you are NOT wearing a spandex catsuit?

Posted: 02 Aug 2009, 15:12
by Erik
"Just going out to water the basil, Dear"
Image

Posted: 02 Aug 2009, 21:32
by Kieran
Damn! How did that photo get onto the net :oops:

Posted: 02 Aug 2009, 22:00
by mobbsey
Pretty 9bloody expensive!) but:

1.
No soil or garden is needed just water and a power supply
OK, so given the average food supply takes 10 calories to produce 1 calorie of dietary intake, what the figure for this?

2. Where does the compost go? You're going to need a constant supply of dissolvable plant nutrients because you can't close the nutrient cycle.

What a thoroughly crap consumerist concept! :shock: