I Never Wanted A Garden — Now I’m Having A Love Affair With My Gardyn

Nothing from a dozen CES conventions has captured the imagination of friends, family and neighbors like the Gardyn, which I’ve been using for well more than a month now. Starting a garden during the middle of winter seemed like something you’d only dream of, but with this marvelous creation, we not only started everything from seed, but we’ve been having fresh and nutritious salads every day now for a couple weeks. Not only that, it takes up less than two square feet of space next to our kitchen patio door.

After seeing the product at CES, I spoke with FX Rouxel, Gardyn’s creator and CEO. He dispelled several reservations I had about the viability of actually growing enough product to make it worth the investment of time and energy. Some of the great points he made:

• Through the use of hydroponics and the IoT, there is almost no work involved to start and maintain your garden. With hydroponics, water is recycled over and over, saving as much as 95% compared to watering an outdoor garden.
• You can grow almost anything other than root vegetables or trees. They have more than three dozen vegetables, fruits, herbs…