<story><title>Space Buckets: DIY Indoor Gardening with LED and Arduinos</title><url>http://www.spacebuckets.com/#c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foxhop</author><text>Every time I see a gardening with tech post I get mildly irritated now that I have been actually gardening for 5 years.  I&amp;#x27;m of the opinion that we need less tech and more systems with integrated design to take the human labor out of gardening and orchards.&lt;p&gt;The sun is the perfect light source for photosynthesis and temperature. I only use LEDs as a last resort for seed starting.  Also LEDs don&amp;#x27;t provide the heat which plants really, really desire so you will end up needing to supplement with heating pads, incandescent bulbs, or external heating.&lt;p&gt;I accidentally raised my electric bill $100 one month last year when I used a small space heater to warm seeds.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m currently trying the following experiments:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * winter sewing basil using milk jugs outside in the snow

  * sewing onions indoors and germinating them on top of my houses boiler.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Space Buckets: DIY Indoor Gardening with LED and Arduinos</title><url>http://www.spacebuckets.com/#c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hughes</author><text>This looks interesting, but high-tech gardening communities almost always seem to turn into thinly-veiled DIY cannabis farmers.</text></comment>