The AeroGarden

I haven’t written anything for Helium for a long time, but one of their latest article titles caught my eye this morning: AeroGrow’s AeroGarden.
I keep seeing pictures of the AeroGarden, and it has obviously been designed to make gardeners want one. It’s a table-top, computer-controlled growing system that guarantees a hearty crop of herbs, salad vegetables or even flowers with no mess and no fuss.
I’d love to say I don’t want one, or to be able to say it’s the worst thing that’s happened to gardening since the development of chemical pesticides, but it has appeared on the TreeHugger blog, so it can’t be that bad.
Apparently it uses less energy than a 60 Watt light bulb. The blurb on the AeroGarden American website says that the nutrient pods are ‘organic-based’, but I have no idea what that means. It is considerably more expensive than a packet of seeds and a bag of compost though. The UK distributor is selling them for £130 (excluding delivery) and extra seed pods are £15 – including the Master Gardener kit that makes it possible for you to grow your own seeds in the AeroGarden, with a year’s supply of seed pods and nutrients.
Has anyone got one an AeroGarden? It’s way out of my price range for the moment.
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May 16th 2008
7:59 PM
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How to choose a green manure
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How to create a sheet mulch garden
How to encourage a Christmas cactus to flower for Christmas
How to grow achocha
How to grow an Avocado Stone
How to grow garlic
How to grow garlic
How to grow mustard and cress
How to grow new potatoes for Christmas
How to grow spring cabbage
How to grow tiger nuts
How to keep cats off your garden
How to make a Christmas pudding for the birds
How to make leaf mold
How to plant avocado pits
How to use coffee grounds in the garden
How to use grease or glue bands for pest control
How to use green manures
How to use urine as a fertilizer
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