About Us

We offer a series of hydroponic (soilless) garden kits that are reasonably priced, easy to set up, require virtually no maintenance, and enable you to grow delicious, fast-growing vegetables and herbs on your window sill or in your patio, garden, or classroom. The technology embedded in our Floating Garden^tm Gardening Kits incorporate our utility patent-pending hydroponic technologies.

We have extensively tested our kits with a variety of plants grown from seed in the units and transplanted from nursery bedding plants. The instructions that come with each kit are based on these tests and the conclusions we reached based upon our tests and research. All of our kits are made by our company (ArtSciDesign, LLC) in the USA and comply with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA, 2008).

Gary Fisher, of ArtSciDesign, LLC is the founder of Plantechnics.com. He was trained in the hard sciences and bio-engineering. When in graduate school he was an ardent subscriber and reader of Rodale's "Organic Gardening Magazine." He grew every vegetable imaginable, had grape arbors and even filmed his growing artichokes. Among other research as a graduate student he developed a conceptual model for maintaining an optimal diversity of chlorella (green algae) for a food source in a future space mission.

As a gardener, Gary was committed at that time to growing everything "organically" in soil. (He currently maintains a roof-top soil-based organic test comparison garden year round in addition to growing a variety of lettuces, herbs, tomatoes, and cucumbers - indoors and out - using his company's hydroponic kits.)

His first hint that there may be something as good as or better than soil-based growing came when his UCLA Ph.D. committee chairman John Lyman told him that when he was a kid growing up in Santa Barbara he grew tomatoes hydroponically and trained them around the ceiling of a sun room. These were the days when hydroponics was below the radar.

Much later after reading about food supply issues, depletion of natural resources, contamination of ground water and rivers by pesticides and fertilizer runoff, Gary re-discovered hydroponics, investigated a number of soil-less gardening techniques, and developed new technology scaled for the home and school. These developments form the basis for the products that we offer on our site.