Aug 27, 2011

Fresh Picks: Highlights From the International Gift Fair in New YorkBy William L. HamiltonOnline.WSJ.com

New York, NY – The Invention

Season’s Over? Ditch the Garden

Bacsac is a small Paris-based company producing bags you can plant in. The series includes pots, window boxes and a variety of sizes of gridded squares that can be planted as “raised bed” flower and vegetable gardens. Decks, terraces, balconies, roofs: Bacsac’s modularity and portability make them ideal for urban gardeners, or summer renters. The recyclable synthetic sack material is a double-walled “geotextile” fabric that is permeable and allows dirt to drain and breathe. (Geotextiles are typically used in civil engineering projects like erosion control.) The bags are frost and sun resistant, and can be rolled up, when empty, like sleeping bags—strapped and storable. The Bacsquare 4, a vegetable planter with a quadrant of plant plots, is about a foot high and two feet square; it holds approximately 31 gallons of dirt and suggested retail price is $172

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