Gizmos for Cooks

Hydroponics provides several advantages over traditional farming where plants are grown in the soil. Using the Aerogarden system you eliminate the need for pesticides and the plants can grow up to five times as fast as traditional methods. In addition, plants grown using Aerogarden require much less water than what is required if you planted the same crop outdoors in the soil.

With the E. coli incidents over the past couple of years, I’m not too keen on eating greens. I know, the E. coli incidents dealt with spinach, but other leafy vegetables could easily be infected in the same way as the spinach was. With that in mind, I’d prefer to know where my leafy greens come from! Also, hydroponically grown plants are not contaminated with soil or soil borne diseases.

Have you avoided trying to grow your own vegetables because you just don’t have a green thumb? Growing fresh vegetables at home not only saves money, it also ensures that your greens will be as fresh and nutritious as possible, and you no longer need to kneel in dirt to entice the greenery from the earth. The AeroGarden lets you grow organic-based plants inside your home at any time of the year. This kit comes with everything you’ll need to get started, including a salad greens seed kit that can grow up to 75 salads’ worth of mixed lettuces! Best of all, using this hydroponics system, you’ll have a guaranteed harvest in 28 days, up to 5 times faster than soil-grown lettuces (at $5 for an organic salad, it would cost up to $375.00 to buy these at the store).

Price: $149.99 at Amazon