I’ve always liked the idea of growing my own vegetables, but I can say pretty confidently they wouldn’t prosper under my watch. ย So a self-watering planter, well for me, that’s the way to go.
The new Glowpearย Mini is versatile and engineered for growing food in tight, urban spaces. Run it up a wall, sit it on a bench or hang it over a balustrade. Then set and forget the self-watering technology, and your plants will be fed how they want and when they want, regardless of your busy (or lazy!) lifestyle.
Glowpear co-founder Lloyd Fenn explains that while he was inspired to design a vertical solution for growing edibles as a result of his own attempts to grow fresh produce for his family, it was the feedback from Glowpearโs customers that ultimately informed the design and functionality of their latest product, theย Glowpear Mini.
โOur followers consistently share with us their love for the Urban Gardenโs (their original product) user-friendly functionality, contemporary aesthetic, and the results they get from its self-watering system, but they also consistently tell us they want something smaller, something vertical, and that portability is essential,โ says Lloyd.ย โTo overcome the perceived constraints of urban spaces, the Mini needed to be even more compact than our previous releases, so we wanted to design something with the versatility to traverse every spatial option within an urban context.โ
With a unique, modular design, each planter canย either stand alone or be interconnected. There is also a strong focus on health and the environment with the Glowpear Mini using lessย water than traditional planters because of capillary action watering, minimising evaporation and watering plants as needed.
The Glowpear Mini will initially be launched on crowd funding platform Indiegogo onย 12ย April 2016 and will then be available globally through selected retail partners.