Realistically, most people aren’t going to spend a year of 5 hours a week redoing their yard to be organic gardens. It’s delicious and highly recommended, but totally get older people complaining about their knees or hips. Raised garden beds and windowsill pots are MUCH more popular and less work. Plus, they’re great for regular meals without reinventing the wheel.
While I spent the weekend weeding radishes, pruning apple trees, and planting trays of herbs for the outdoor kitchen garden, definitely had neighbors showing up for free purple basil for their countertops. If you spend anytime in NC, BASIL is the #1 herb as it scares off mosquitoes. The trend brings back visions of the 90s kitchen container herbs: Rosemary, thyme, and sage multi-layered combos. Or basil, parsley, and chives. All that cute Martha Stewart stuff.
Looking at the British BBC Show GrowVeg and the low-budget gardening app, you can’t help, but wonder if we’re going to see someone in Silicon Valley wise up and recast it as an American version complete with a shiny planting app for 2025. Maybe with some strategic Lowes, Home Depot, or Michaels promotional branding? It brings back visions of Facebook Farmville. The simple app graphics are TERRIBLE on the British version even if the actor, Ben, is very good. It’s kind of this diamond in the rough.
Lowes and the local farmer’s market both have great selections of herbs here in Raleigh. The little $5-7/six-pack herbs are perfect for planting drinking parties with friends. Soil is cheap in big bags and they have SUPER cute pots. You wonder if some business owner or enterprising florist is going to do bachelorette parties or wedding table arrangements from edible herbs that guests can take with them as an environmental MAHA trend. Obviously, some cute actresses or female chefs on BRAVO spring to mind. Can’t you see some hippie theater chicks having a blast?
And yes, of course some rich people will game the system by buying pre-made cute little pots full of beautiful herbs instead of growing them from scratch or pay someone to do it behind the scenes. And there will be one wicca whose ALL into SAGE. Or the stoner guys who use their bong water to make a hydroponic edible salad garden that gets EVERYONE high. Or the DnD group who makes it part of the evening campaign complete with tiny painted elves, orcs, and wizards. And some nerdy engineers are going to get together and try to Xbox controller their herb garden by hooking it to some cooking robot or overly complicated technology, but overall good times and cheap reality tv to produce. You may not be able to afford the $10,000 gas stove, but you can buy the $24.99 herb tabletop garden from Lowes. Or $59.99 for the tv branded version. Say Princess Peach oyster mushrooms grow kit with the new Super Marios Game? Anyways, if anyone from Lowes or the local gardening department wants this idea, it’s yours. Have a great week everyone!