Click and Grow is an almost foolproof way to grow houseplants. In fact, it appears to be the perfect product for the plant-loving but absent-minded geek.

The Click and Grow will be a plastic nursery-box which look very much like Apple's Mac Cube. Instead of a pot of soil, the Click and Grow grows plants using aeroponics: the plants are grown in air with nutrients and water delivered together in a fine mist.

To grow a plant, you buy a seed-pod, a capsule which contains both seeds and nutrients. You then hook up the box to your computer via USB (we told you this was nerdy) and download the correct program. The Click and Grow then does the rest, although you will still need to add water from time to time. Because food and water delivery are taken care of by the box, and the care programs are tailored for each plant-type, its hard for things to go wrong.

Or is it? You could still neglect to water the plant, you could put it in a place with too much or too little light and you could put it in a drafty corridor when it should be in a sun-dappled corner. In fact, pretty much anything you could do to kill a regular plant you could also do to the Click and Grow.

Still, I signed up to be notified when these go on sale: To my geek-brain, anything, even a pot-plant, is cooler when hooked up to a computer. Now, if only I could hack it to Tweet me when its thirsty.

Click and Grow will be around $23, with seed-capsules starting at $3.50.

Click and Grow - growing plants via computer [Gizmag]

Click and Grow [Click and Grow]