If You Can’t Garden, Help Is Here!

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Listen, Amazon is not stopping until it conquers all of their consumer’s needs. If you recall earlier this year, the company joined forces with Whole Foods for a delivery service and to cut their food prices. That business move was groundbreaking and now Amazon is on to the next. Amazon is now venturing into a gardening service. This service will help consumers grow their own food in their own yard. Yup, Amazon has found another way to your home.

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This gardening service will instruct users to upload pictures of their current gardens. Then Amazon will provide a list of recommendations to help the garden start or improve. This list will include gardening tools, advice on what to plant, atmosphere suggestions, and even recipes to make with your grown vegetables. This idea may seem peculiar, and maybe you’re wondering why would anyone need it. There are books for this, right?

Amazon gave a hypothetical example of a lady named Evelyn stating, “Evelyn who likes to cook with home-grown veggies, has just moved to Seattle, and isn’t familiar with the plants in her backyard or how to cook them. The gardening service would provide recipes based on what it determines she’s growing. In the example, the service finds she has mint, tomatoes, and cucumbers. It would then recommend a Greek salad recipe and even let Evelyn know she can get other ingredients, like feta cheese and olive oil, from Amazon.”

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Still, maybe you can’t relate to Evelyn because you have experience with gardening. Amazon considered this as well. Here’s what the service could offer more experienced gardeners. After uploading a picture, Amazon will use algorithms and a geolocator to access your area. Then they will list suggestions on your current gardening conditions and analyze if you’re growing the correct things. For example, if a picture of a shady garden location is uploaded, Amazon will proceed in recommending a plant that has the best chances of growing in that area. It will also show where you can find that plant and the essential tools needed to tend to it on Amazon, of course.

The date of this service being launched is unknown. But, the gardening patent has been purchased by Amazon. To some gardeners, this tool may be useless. However, it could possibly lend a green thumb to thousands of people around the world.

What are your thoughts on Amazon’s latest service?

Samantha Wachs