The AeroGarden

You can grow pretty much anything with an AeroGarden that you can grow in a traditional garden. The only limitation is you have to use seed kits provided by the manufacturer, AeroGrow International.

Most of the herb and flower seed kits come with a variety of different plants as opposed to a single type of plant. This is a great idea since the AeroGarden is fairly compact and it would limit its usefulness if you could only grow one herb, flower or vegetable in it.

On average each seed kit takes three to five weeks for the plants to mature and should allow you harvest for four to five months!

Herb Seed Kits: Cost $19.95

French Herbs – Includes Chervil, Sorrel, Marseille Basil, Parsley, Sage, Savory and Chives.

Gourmet Herbs – Includes Thyme, Chives, Italian Basil, Purple Basil, Dill, Mint and Parsley.

Holiday Herbs – Includes Parsley, Oregano, Thyme and Sage.

International Basil – Includes a number of varieties of Basil from around the world.

Italian Herbs – Includes Basil, Garlic Chives, Mint, Savory, parsley, Oregano and Thyme.

Japanese Herbs – Includes Mitsuba, Red Shiso, Nira Chives, Cress and Shungiku.

Vegetable Seed Kits: Cost $19.95

Cherry Tomatos

Chili Peppers – Includes three distinct varieties of chili peppers.

Green Beans

Salsa Garden – Includes Cherry Tomatoes and Jalapeno Peppers.

Snow Peas

Salad Seed Kits: Cost $19.95

Arugula – Salad leafs that add spice to salads.

Baby Greens

Mesclun – Blend of sweet lettuces.

Romaine lettuce – Includes both red and green leafs.

Salad Greens – Includes seven different lettuce varieties.

The first thing that came to mind when opening the shipping box was that only three of the seven bio-dome pods actually had seeds in them. It turns out that due to the relatively small size of the AeroGarden, it doesn’t have the space required to support seven growing tomato plants.

Fair enough, after all the reason I bought the AeroGarden was because of its small size.

Surprisingly even with only three plants it didn’t take very long for the plants to outgrow the space required and you will definitely need to spend at least a few minutes each week trimming your plants other wise they will grow to a point where the lights in the hood will start to kill the plant.

Besides the unexpected maintenance I can’t say I experienced any difficulty with the Cherry Tomato kit from start to blossoming, which took me about three weeks. Once the blossoms turned into actual tomatoes I had a little trouble remembering to trim the plant which caused some leaves to die.

However the resulting harvest was definitely worth the investment of time as I rediscovered my love for tomato sandwiches and fresh tomatoes taste far better then ones that have been sitting in my refrigerator for two weeks..