If your green thumb is itching for a garden that your cramped apartment can’t facilitate, it turns out those take-away food containers in your fridge can double as clever mini greenhouses. Well, you can with these specially designed translucent plastic boxes that look like take-away food containers but still let sunshine in.
Created by Italian designers Francesca Bonfrate and Alessandra Bove, the Serravaso planters are part of Bubble Design’s Green Kit, which lets you garden with limited real estate. With the lid closed, the containers trap heat and humidity creating the perfect greenhouse-like environment for seeds to mature into plants. Once your crop gets big enough, you can open the lid giving them more room to grow or transfer them to a larger container.
The smallest version of the kit, which includes three containers, is priced at just under $US40. But if you’ve got the room, the larger $US70 set might even put a few vegetables on your table. [Daily Review Shop via Design Milk]