Sun and Soil Probe

If you are looking to keep your garden as healthy and green as possible, then here is the perfect device for you. The Sun and Soil Probe is a handy little device that takes scientific sun/soil information generated from a probe you insert into the soil. It's really useful especially for amateur gardeners.



You can do a lot with this probe as it helps monitor light, water, and more. Also, it helps you find the perfect spot for your plants, where they will receive just the right amount of light. And you know that the probe knows what it's talking about as it incorporates data from the American Gardening Association. If you are one of the people that think their tears might bring their dead plants back to life, then you definitely need a device like this.



The ingenious in-ground sensor incorporated in the Sun and Soil Probe, available from Frontgate, reads and analyzes growing conditions in specific spots inside your home or yard, including sunlight, temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and drainage. It even puts the same technology used on NASA's Mars mission to work in your own backyard for soil moisture measurements.



This probe is very easy to use too. Thus, after you take it out of the soil, you need to plug it into your computer and watch as it turns readings into recommendations, listing plants sure to flourish in your exact environment. This way, you don't have to “torture” certain plants, but you can find out what kind of plants will feel comfortable and happy in your yard.



You can even specify the desired bloom color or season, plant height, drought tolerance, deer resistance and other features, and you'll certainly be satisfied with the result, as the database contains 5,000+ plants. Also, besides deciding what types of plants go in the environment provided by the place you want to put the plants to, this probe can diagnose ailing plants, so that you can bring them back to health.



This Soil and Sun Probe is like having your own personal team of botanists on-call around the clock. It allows you to spend a lot less time in the garden, it goes with both PC and Mac, it's reusable and sells for approximately 70 US dollars.