Great Gift for an Indoor Gardener

steve | 5:23 am | September 6, 2007 | Gifts for Gardeners, Electronics

I love to cook, but one of the things I can’t stand is when a recipe calls for 10 basil leaves or a teaspoon of parsley or something. At the local supermarket, they sell things by the bushel, not by the teaspoon. So what tends to happen is, I buy a ton of fresh herbs, snip off a little to use in my recipe, and watch the rest go bad in my refrigerator. That, or spend weeks eating parsley soup, parsley sandwiches, parsley-ka-bobs, etc.

Living in an apartment, I don’t have the luxury of having my own herb garden. I tried container gardening, but can never seem to find good light for them and remembering to water them.

When I first heard about the Aerogarden, I literally gasped. It’s like having a garden right in your kitchen that provides its own sunlight, waters itself, and to boot, you don’t have to deal with weeds or bugs. If your recipe calls for a spring of a fresh herb, you can just snip it off and have the freshest herbs around. Not only this, you can grow cherry tomatoes, salad greens, and other things by buying different “seed pods”.

My sister just moved from her big house (with her huge rose and herb garden) in Davis, California to an apartment in New York City. I plan to get one of these for her birthday. For the apartment-dweller in your life, treat them to a virtual backyard. The Aerogarden is available at Problem Solvers.

Next to the McGriddle’s sandwich, I think this is the greatest invention I’ve seen in the past five years.