I'm, like, sooo yesterday! Do you remember the days when seeds were started in egg cartons or peat pellets and transplanted into dirt? Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you're yesterday too. Actually, you're the day before yesterday if you remember the egg carton bit.

In our modern age of high-tech gadgets and flashy gizmos, the frugal, luddite techique of planting seeds in dirt simply won't do. Enter the AeroGarden to show us the foolishness of our old ways. I have to admit I was very skeptical upon arriving at their website which is plastered with slogans like "NASA-tested" and ""5 times faster than dirt". Then there's the sticker-shock: $149.95. That's a lot of peat pellets.

After closer inspection, though, I said to myself "why not?' I'd rather see this gadget in people's houses than another TV or miracle exercise machine that they'll never use. And - who knows - maybe prospective AeroGarden owners will be so jazzed about growing their own herbs that they feel this inexplicable urge to tuck a few seeds into the ground just to see what happens.

As for me, I'll hold onto my dirt for now.