Space age allotment

[Kieran]

Bit on the small side but looks very cool:

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

[skeptik]

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.

[Kieran]

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.

[eatyourveg]

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.

Are you saying you are NOT wearing a spandex catsuit?

[Erik]

"Just going out to water the basil, Dear"

[Kieran]

Damn! How did that photo get onto the net

[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!