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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Posted 18 January 2008, 09:22.  

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