Get ready for fresh salad all year round with IKEA’s hydroponics indoor gardening kit! From tasty lemon basil to crispy red romaine lettuce; IKEA promises the KRYDDA/VÄXER series will make it super easy to grow your own indoor garden. How? With hydroponics.
Hydroponics is a plant-growing method which has been around for centuries, and today it’s the basis of successful, large-scale agricultural operations.
Growing plants involves just the right mix of light, climate, nutrients, and water. Hydroponics allow farmers to control all of those things even more acutely than conventional growing, making some believe that it produces superior plants. Others argue greenhouse hydroponics will never mimic sun-ripened produce, but for people living up north that will never be a year-round option.
This is why IKEA’s indoor gardening kit — which lets you grow lettuce right on your kitchen countertop — may very well be the future! Living in a time which emphasizes the importance of local produce and eco friendly farming methods, it can’t get better than this! City dwellers will reap the bounty of home-grown food, even those without access to their own gardens. Or at least get an understanding of the growth process, since the volume of produce won’t fill many plates (yet).
But, as pointed out by Inc, this little indoor gardening kit aligns perfectly with the core values of IKEA, which are:
“form, function, quality, sustainability, and a low price.”
IKEA has designed the setup and maintenance of the indoor garden to be simple enough for almost anyone. IKEA also prides itself on developing products that create solutions for little spaces, another plus for city dwellers.
Find the Indoor Gardening Kit at Ikea stores this spring. Meanwhile, get inspired and learn how it’s done here:
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