I'm Nuts about My New AeroGarden Planter

I have been curious about this one. I made a aeroponic set up for lettuce and it did a good job. However that little light might not be able to produce a nice fruit. It might change the spectrum during the blooming cycle. If not it might only be best for leafy items or herbs. If you get nice tomatoes without supplemental lighting, let me know. I seriously doubt you would do well with cucumbers. Wouldn't they grow crazy and become a mess? Would you have to prune it constantly to keep it under the light? Do they give you instructions to grow the cucs? Just curious.

This is amazing! Never heard of it before. I think we are moving into an unbelievable phase of inventions and discoveries. Thanks for sharing this. The basil plant is so green, i tell you! ] Pls keep us updated and I await your lovely review of this on AC. Till then happy aero gardening.

Hi drannhh, This looks like a novel and convenient kitchen gardening utensil - a somewhat refined version of the traditional planter box in the kitchen window. I like the idea, from the perspective of convenience, cleanliness and low maintenance, and maybe even education. And you can probably be confident that whatever you're eating is pesticide and herbicide free (depending on exactly what is in those tablets, and in the initial seed packages). But I dislike the energy, economic and infrastructural implications - not that these devices are going to drain the electricity grid or anything, but the design of these Aerogarden things establishes a framework of dependency on electricity, on the nutritional tablets, and (from what i can see) even the seed packages. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or criticizing your endorsement of the Aerogarden thing. I think it's a great idea - similar to the home bread making machines, which in fact serve a range of very useful purposes, just like the Aerogardens - convenience, confidence, health & nutrition, etc. It's just that there's probably simpler, cheaper, more robust approaches to the problem. I guess, at the end of the day, I'd only really be entirely satisfied with something that I know that I could build myself, produce and supply all the necessary materials myself, and fix myself if necessary. Real self-sufficiency, so to speak. In that context, the Aerogarden is cute, and a very handy kitchen appliance, but that about sums it up. It's workable in the context of a highly interdependent and technologically sophisticated societal paradigm - interdependency being the operative word. I like the idea way more than the product. Incidentally, without being facetious, one excellent use for this type of device will be in the initial stages of colonizing Mars (and perhaps the Moon - underground, most likely, and maybe the same on Mars). I believe I'd be using something similar then. But in the meantime, the good old kitchen window planter will suffice.

that looks very nice! say, i see you're pretty good with plants...could you give me some advice about taking care of a bamboo rod? :D

This is indeed a very interesting innovation for the home. I wanted to find out more, so I went into this site http://www.aerogrow.com/ and tried to learn more about growing your own vegetables with this new gadget. Somehow all the sites that show the Aerogarden show a different picture from what you have displayed, and I wonder if what you purchased and using are the same thing. Is it? I guess looks aside, the concept of how such an indoor hydroponic garden kit works will be the same. I read that one can grow chili peppers, cherry tomatoes, salad greens, peas and beans, all kinds of herbs and even roses in this kit. And they even control the right amount of simulated sunlight to enable the different types of plants and vegetables to grow properly. That's really marvelous and so neat as well. I guess if you new gadget is like this, you can give cucumbers and eggplants a try if you know how to set the right controls. I wonder if such an AeroGarden kit is available in my country. It might just be a hit here since not many people have gardens where they can plant their own vegetables.

Do you know how to grow Broccoli...? I'm nuts about this vegetable.

hm, this is new method of planting then. it seems interesting to try in cause it doesn't need longer time to see the result of your planting. if i have more space in my place at now, i would like to try this method. and your idea to plant cucumburs, tomatoes also eggplants is quit good. i am sure if you follow the direction carefully about this method then you able to see them growth well hey, the idea to plant roses between them also nice but you should make sure the needing of rose to grow with the needing of your plants to grow. happy planting for you then

This is really interesting and great for people like me (who don't have green fingers). Keep us posted on how it works...after you try out different plants!

Hi there drannhh, I love the idea of hidroponic garden! I never seen like that before in my life! and Basil of yours seems like different that i have in my country.

Pretty interesting. That actually sounds fun! I do not know much about gardening, so this is a thing you put the seed in and then the plants would grow? That sounds quite nice and I love the part that you don't need to use the dirt.

That is so cool looking! Where do you get one? It doesn't look very big, but I imagine you could use it to gro just about anything that would survive in that kind of space. I'm not a gardening expert by any means, but I do think that's pretty darn cool!