Can an Indoor Smart Garden Beat Outdoor Gardening? We Tested It | WSJ
Can smart gardens really grow delicious vegetables inside your apartment? WSJ asked Timothy Hammond, an urban gardener and educator in Houston, to test out Rise Gardens hydroponic smart garden to see how the vegetables compare with his own outdoor garden. Photo: Ben Hallock for The Wall Street Journal
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Would an apple seed grow in this thing?
4:55 dude! get a cover for that outlet on the wall! Danger! and it looks like its been painted over? holy moley
What a blatant lie from Rise, there is nothing special about the technology or the materials used that would justify that price.
You could very easily make a DIY solution for a 10th of the cost
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spending
What about the electricity
You can build that for like $150 > $200 with way better led lights..
That’s a lot of lettuce and tomatoes to make up for the co$t Hobbies are fun but to depend on these as a way to grow for own food? HA, the farms are laughing out loud. Nice marketing though, bunch of suckers will buy.
Wow that was weak. 25 days isn’t nearly enough. Maybe the outdoor plants started slower but would have out-produced the indoor ones? Very likely with many sun-loving plants. Then again, you’re unlikely to get much in the way of pests inside since you’re not using soil. This was just so incomplete.
Ask any cannabis farmer, outdoor can’t even compete with indoor. There is no competition when your’e able to completely control the environment.
Is it possible to grow using normal fertilizer, plz inform me,
I wonder if you can use this for succulents! That’d be awesome… But I’d rather use it to grow some flowers. Gonna talk to my dad to see if I can get one for x mas.. as well as a "Yesteday, Today and Tomorrow" tree.
It’s not the task for indoor gardens to beat ourdoor gardens. It’s, especially in winter and autumn, there to be an add on. Or it is for people who don’t own a real garden. What’s there to "beat"? So your title is rather much click-baiting.
This is so stupid, you can easily make one yourself, and as for the grow lights it cost pennys to run, LED lights barely use any wattage and the water pump is nothing as well.
1. The market for this started with the Arduino Crowd.
2. Then the more resourceful Aquaponic Growers.
3. Now we these Kit gardens, the Home Depot isn’t really taking seriously!
For this to really take off at those prices, it should come with a fish tank at least!
Much cheaper to build your own, and use MasterBlend. The prices for some commercial systems are insane. DWC, NFT, Tower Garden , they are all pretty simple to build and work excellent. Outdoors or indoors in Winter.
I mean… You tried to grow lettuce in the summer outside in the South. Of course it didn’t do well. It’s like asking if ice stays solid longer in an ice chest than it does on a freeway in summer. That doesn’t mean that a ice chest is better than Antarctica at keeping things really cold.
I had the Rise Garden for a little over a year. It’s nice until their water pump failed and there support team won’t admit to replacing it to the latest one, which they have been doing for other customers. Worst experience ever
Have you looked into aquaponics? It’s going to be healthier because it will be the full circle of lie and you know what goes into your fish food.
Inflation over 3 years, for this product:
$549 -> $799 (+37%)
$749 -> $1149 (+42.1%)
$949 -> $1449 (+41.7%)
Cost sure has increased over the last 3 years, eh.
Least there’s two colours.
Its a tray and a light. What corners are there to cut?😂
An overpriced Lettuce machine for Karens and hipster morons who dont know you can make the same thing that can not only grow lettuce but peppers etc. For pennys what this cost. There is nothing "Smart" about paying $2,500 for something you can build yourself out of lowes Heavy Duty totes, Aquarium pumps and a decent grow light
Grow some weed. This would be amazing for cannabis
Can it run off-line
$800 bowl of salad 😂😂 . Nice
Cant compare outdore with boosted gowing, Just Paied commercial
i love it
So many design mistakes here, Know there are better kit system out there!
Rip off, but bring on the competition, all will be well.
You can build the system for alot cheaper, you just need the software and light kit
Great review . My opinion gardening as someone more on a budget would be going for a diy version or an aerogarden or a knockoff aerogarden along with growing outside and in soil. This kit is great for people who have more money .
700 bucks for a bookshelf with lights? lolol
I can build one for a 3rd of that price
At over 700 USD, I can buy 2-3 Garden Aeroponic Towers
Are vegetables better for you in anyway if they are grown outdoors as opposed to indoors? Like sunlight energy as opposed to this light energy? May sounds dumb but idk.
I got to grow vegetables outdoors on my balcony last year for the first time and it was so exciting to see them grow and produce – and then devastating to see some lost to heatwaves and others to mites or even fungus, following a particularly humid week. Growing indoors in a more sterile environment, reducing or eliminating soil when possible, seems like a better option. The major negative for me then becomes ‘light management’.
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A key important con that comes with aquaculture is that once a plant goes bad it’ll infect everything in its system, this is one of the biggest challenge doing this.
I’m curious of the vitamin/mineral content of hydroponics/indoor gardening
This is my two 3-tier family rise garden. The first garden has already produced almost 2KG of food with a rough value of CAD$200 – https://youtu.be/z8tj2Grm1XQ
The thing is, most of the time you would start your seeds indoors until they were strong enough to handle the heat
Is it silent? or does it make noise from a water pump?
700/3 is 240 packs of brussel sprouts..it’s a hobby/game..this isn’t an economical way to replace your grocery shopping
i can make this for 150$ plus with automatic water exchanger powered with solar with battery and better reflective isolation.
i can make this for 150$ plus with automatic water exchanger powered with solar with battery and better reflective isolation.
If wanting to bring the price down, I would suggest cutting the connectivity. I would be fine checking water levels myself or turning the lights on with a timer, etc. and can’t imagine too many people fussing with remote changes or needing a special app or whatever for reminders.
Can this be used outdoors as well? . Are the nutrients organic? Thanks for sharing 🙏🏽
With that price tag this is just a fk joke.
Go find a trashed cup and plant in that instead.
WHO buys this??
Can you use your own seeds and growing medium?
I’m looking into wall mounted hydroponics for my apartment.
There are good plans on YouTube to build one for yourself!
Kamini, is it you ?
you could recreate that garden if your handy for $50.