aero garden harvest white

The Quick Bottom Line: Yes, I’d definitely buy it again—mostly because it grows herbs, but also because it saves me from stubbing my toes at 2 AM while looking for a snack. The Pros: • Navigation: The LED grow light is bright enough to light up the whole kitchen for a midnight snack run to the fridge. • Compact: It has a small footprint; I put mine on the kitchen counter and I warned my neighbours to ignore the bright light in my kitchen that I was becoming a vegetable mama. • Set-up: Super easy to get started—basically "plug and play." The Cons: • Brightness: Be warned, the light is bright. • Pump Noise: You can hear a tiny trickle of water sometimes to me it sounds like a mini waterfall.

Great product and fun activity. It works as intended and I had no problems while using it.

I received one Aerogarden Harvest as a gift from my in-laws for Christmas. It came with the heirloom salad greens kit. We had sprouts less than 1 week after starting, and it provided salad greens for nearly 4 months before the plants matured and stopped producing more leaves. This provided 2-3 large salads per week for two adults. Some weeks we had 3-5 small side salads for two adults, per week. The lights on the base tell you when it needs more water and when to add more food. I have a reputation as a black thumb and it made me really happy to have such great success with growing plants. In 2022 I think everyone should be doing something to produce some of their own food, due to the supply chain crisis and crazy inflation rates that just keep going up. It's added a lot to my peace of mind knowing if nothing else I can grow my own salads. I realize it will take a while for the savings of my grocery bill to offset the initial cost of the aerogarden, but it's really empowering to feel that I can provide even a little of my own food right now. I have enjoyed the Aerogarden so much that I ordered a second unit which I have been using for growing herbs. I got the herb kit from Aerogarden and had very mixed results with this. The mint got an aphid infestation after a few weeks, when the mint plant was very large. This surprised me because all the articles about aphids that i read suggest adding mint to your garden because aphids are "supposed" to dislike mint. The dill and basil grew INSANELY well. I've harvested and dried dill and basil three times in the past 2 months. I filled 5/6 trays in my Cosori dehydrator with each batch. The thyme has stayed very small and the parsley also didn't grow very well. So, I think that the success of the Aerogarden is a bit situational and depends on the type of plant you are trying to grow. Salads are easy and very successful. Herbs.... your mileage may vary. Also, the size of the plants can sometimes be a hinderance to the growth of different plants in the same unit, or easily harvesting the leaves. I had a much easier time harvesting when the entire planter had only the same type of plant growing in it. For example, the basil plants got so large that they completely shaded the thyme and parsley because these grew much slower at the start of the garden. The basil had so many leaves that I had a little difficulty accessing the plants in the center of the planter. So I don't think i will ever try to grow large plants such as tomatoes or peppers in the aerogarden, simply for the convenience of being able to easily access any other plants in the unit. i am actually considering buying a THIRD aerogarden so I can have two units both growing a large variety of salad greens so that we have enough greens for two adults to have a large salad every single night.

Grows a nice herb garden. Easy to use.

This is a cute little device and for awhile it was fun to grow things in my kitchen over the winter. However, if you want to grow anything more than maybe herds or flowers it’s kind of useless. If you say grow a variety of lettuce, in a month you may have enough for a salad. And then you have to start again. I tried several different types of seeds and the only one I really felt to be useful was the basil. The tea set makes no sense as they all grow at different rates so you never really have the right ingredients for fresh tea. The tomatoes were cute but it took quite awhile to get about 6 cherry tomatoes. If you really want to grow food in your home maybe a bigger model would make more sense and then plant things according to how long it will take them to produce something edible. Would also be useful for starting your own plants for your garden if you bought the grow your own kit.