By Derek Markham, Source: Treehugger
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Ambitious gardeners might head out to the back yard and start tearing up the whole lawn to make room for garden beds, but many of the garden-curious need something quite a bit smaller in scale to begin with, such as a single plant or two. Keeping a few plants alive and thriving is fairly simple to do, and with any luck, the successful experience of growing a single plant will plant the seeds of a gardening passion that just might end up feeding a family, a neighborhood, or a community.

Hydroponic growing, a soil-less method that can help take some of the guesswork out of growing, has seen a resurgence lately, and we’ve covered new versions of personal hydroponic devices that aim to make it simpler for beginners, and an assortment of plug-n-play hydroponics options, but even those are much more complex than this next little device, called the Petomato.

The Petomato is a special bottle cap that fits on the top of a plastic water bottle and repurposes it into a micro hydroponic garden, and according to the website, is “easy and requires little maintenance.”

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