even plants are on Twitter these days

Soil moisture sensors are nothing new, but couldn’t the whole process be more, y’know, socially interactive?

Botanicalls in action - image: Botanicalls

With the Botanicalls Kit your plant notifies you by Twitter that it needs watering, then thanks you afterwards. ($99.95.  Fiddly-looking.)

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We report this week on UK asparagus reaching the supermarket shelves in time for Valentine’s Day. The season for pretty much all fresh produce now runs for months rather than weeks.

Yet for some reason the Seville orange season still seems to pass in the blink of an eye. Unless you’re in the supermarket during the appointed three hours on the morning of the third Tuesday in January, or whatever ephemeral moment it is that they stock them, you’ve had it. Grrr.

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I know most arbs are sensible, level-headed types, so surely this guy can’t be among their number:

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“Il faut cultiver notre jardin”, Voltaire’s world-weary Candide ultimately declares. And now cuddly pop diva Adele has announced that, having conquered the music world, she might take a few years off to, among other things, “plant a nice vegetable patch“. Sensible girl.

Adele - image: Wikipedia / Christopher Macsurak

[Update: apparently not.]