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The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

269 - Tobie Stanger - Countertop Indoor Gardens

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

4.4734 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm speaking with Tobie Stanger with Consumer Reports.  She will be talking about 4 counter top indoor gardens she tested and what she found.

Show Notes:

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Tobie's Article in Consumer Reports

https://www.consumerreports.org/indoor-gardening/countertop-indoor-garden-review-a6362223816/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys. Today we're going to be talking about a topic that we have actually never discussed on the

0:06.4

podcast before. We're talking about countertop indoor gardens. And most of you may be familiar with this.

0:14.5

The Arrow Garden is one brand name, but there are also others. And this is a hydroponic type of growing food.

0:23.2

And I've really never discussed it because I've never done it before.

0:26.8

But I thought that it would be interesting to actually discuss it partly because we're heading into the holiday season.

0:34.1

And maybe you've had your eye on something like this and you're wanting to decide if you

0:39.4

want to give this as a gift idea to a loved one or if maybe you want to consider one of

0:45.2

these as a gift idea for someone else. Well, today we have on the podcast Toby Stanger and she is

0:52.0

from Consumer Reports and she did a side-by-side test of four different

0:57.5

countertop gardens and she's coming at this objectively as someone from consumer

1:03.3

reports she's not from any of these companies and so I really enjoyed hearing her experience

1:09.1

with growing in these four types of countertop gardens.

1:13.3

She's going to be talking to you about how they all generally work and then some differences

1:17.3

between them as well.

1:19.6

Now, as we're speaking, she is going to be referencing the ones that she tried.

1:24.6

We're going to have all of those links in the show notes for you to check out

1:28.8

along with her original article that she wrote with Consumer Reports, where she compared

1:34.0

the four that she wrote about and that she's talking about with us today. So I hope that you

1:39.8

enjoy this unique and interesting conversation with Toby Stanger and maybe it will inspire you to

1:47.3

consider one of these countertop indoor gardens for yourself or for a loved one this holiday

1:52.8

season. Hi, I'm Jill and almost 10 years ago I started my first garden as a new stay-at-home mom

1:59.8

trying to cut our grocery bill. Over the years, I stumbled my way garden as a new stay-at-home mom trying to cut our grocery bill.

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