QR Codes: Where Horticulture and High-Tech Intersect
One of the things I like best about gardening is that it provides an escape from all the high-tech electronic buzz that usually fills my head during the day. Between emails, text messages and what seems like constant googling, it's all too easy for me to fritter away my entire day tied to one electronic device or another. Once I'm in the garden it doesn't take long before I undergo a real digital purgation, where my head is emptied of all those bits and bytes. There isn't anything virtual about the garden. Out there, an electronic reminder usually means I've weeded a little too close to the electric fence (ouch!) and a tweet means that there's a real bird following me around and not someone on Twitter. Isn't reality wonderful?
However, as much as I like to keep the two worlds of horticulture and technology separate and distinct for reasons related to my own sanity, there are a few cases where I permit them to intersect. This is chiefly because I'm lazy and always looking for ways to make my gardening life a little easier. For example, not long ago I wrote about how my IPhone became one of my favorite new tools once I found out what it could do for me in the garden. And now, there are QR codes which are not only very cool and appeal to the nerdy side of me, but also seem like they could have great potential in the world of gardening.
