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Gardenr.com (or HeeHawr.com)

Submitted by: thecougar
Created: Mar 16, 2007, 4:29 pm

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My idea is an online community where people are able to grow and maintain a garden. Users could log onto the site and sign up for a small plot of land. You pick the seeds, plant them, water them, and watch them grow. You could also chat with the neighboring "farmers" to discuss strategies. Once the vegetables grow big enough, you can enter the county fair, where the biggest and best pumpkins and cukes win blue ribbon prizes.

Sounds lame, right? Here's the catch: instead of this being a fake virtual garden, it would be a REAL garden! Real life gardeners would sign up to host a patch (say a 5x5 meter plot of land) and online users would each get a square meter to work with. Whatever the users chose for the gardener to plant, they would do it. If the online gardener didn't click the water button, the real gardener would skip the real H20 for the day. At the end of the season, the gardener would harvest the veggies and ship them to the online user.

I thought of this idea when I was...

taking in a beautiful spring day in the city and feeling sad that I didn't have the room to plant my own garden.

Comments Posted

coda Posted: April 2, 2007, 11:09 pm

What? Some niches are cool and some are well.."wait what did you say?"

mustang4 Posted: April 20, 2007, 3:24 pm

There are a few snags like one meter is not much room, most garden vegetables like a lot of friends, I suppose like requests might be put close together. also would the real gardeners get paid? if so I would be one. It sounds good but maybe just hire out gardeners over the internet to grow stuff for people who do not have the room. Could get very fresh vegetables in 1-2 days delivery. Also even if it was a small amount they do not all ripen at same time so there would be a trickle of veggies over time.

migueljds Posted: April 24, 2007, 9:30 am

You going to have a really hard time sustaining that website. How will you pay the gardener and purchasing the land for the garden, if it's ever to scale.
Unless ..... hmm, unless people or website members volunteer their real garden for other members, but then if one member volunteers a piece of land in their garden for free to other members to maintain and grow stuff, where do you make money?

laracee Posted: April 29, 2007, 12:10 am

Honestly I really like the idea of paying for gardening space and for someone else to do the work. Ha! I love to garden but have very limited space for veggies, but still I maximize every inch of space I have. I'd be sure to try this out, but...

who are these gardeners and why would I trust them? I assume they would only get paid upon delivery of veggies. If I'm diligent in my online gardening play (as I so would be) who's to say they would be as diligent with their real life gardening duties? Is there any guarantee on quality of harvest?

I do see room for this site to partner with a wide variety of advertisers.

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