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An indoor garden device consisting of two white vertical columns with plant pods coming out in several spots, in a corner of a sunny living room next to a wine rack.

The Gardyn Studio is that rare piece of tech that looks good inside my home.

I can’t grow anything. Multiple attempts to create a cottage garden, first in Idaho and now in South Carolina, have brought disappointment. Both are challenging climates, but where others have succeeded, I’ve been left with little more than a pile of cherry tomatoes for my vast efforts (those things are bulletproof).

I’d all but given up on the idea of ever successfully growing my own food – I can’t even keep those pots of herbs you buy at the grocery store alive for more than a week – until I met the Gardyn Studio 2.

A smart indoor garden, the Gardyn Studio 2 is an automated growing platform that deploys AI to do what I failed to do: w …

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