Automated Moisture Sensor

I’ve always been harping on about growing my own tomatoes and other veggies and earlier this year i attempted it for a while.Unfortunately with me going away for various conferences and generally being a forgetful lout i managed to kill many many plants!

What i wanted was:

What I got was:

So recently I was playing with my arduino and thinking about this, and got the idea to try and create an automated gardening system where my plants where automatically given water/light/etc without me having to worry about it. There are some fantastic resources online like http://www.instructables.com/id/Garduino-Gardening-Arduino/ and http://makeprojects.com/Project/Garduino-Geek-Gardening/62/1.

I began planning something i’d want, and ideally it would have to be this:

• Moisture control for water
• Water pump to water them
• Light sensors for Lights and LEDs (red and blue for optimal growth)
• Humidity to keep my plants cosy
• Interface via LCD/Web to see how things are doing (if more water is needed etc)
• Solar panel to allow the system to be completely stand alone

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