AeroGarden Harvest Indoor Garden Hydroponic System with LED Grow Light and Herb Kit, Holds up to 6 Pods, White

Great invention. Works great and good quality

I had Aerogardens years ago and wound up selling them. Now I'm doing Kratky jars inside for transplanting outside to my half-acre garden. I mostly direct-seed what I grow here in Zone 8a, but things like tomatoes still need to be started indoors. While I have the 1020 trays and all that paraphernalia, I just don't have the space for them. (Santa, please bring me a greenhouse this year!) So I decided to pick up this basic Aerogarden Harvest and the matching seed-starting tray for the sole purpose of getting my tomato transplants started indoors without too much fuss.This is a tidy little 6-pod unit. It's not the one I would have chosen if I were planning to grow a lot of salad veggies indoors, but it fits very nicely on my desk and the lights are bright enough to serve as a desk lamp without any other lights turned on. I bought it specifically because a 23-pod seed-starting tray is available for it, which I purchased at the same time. This will be dedicated to starting my tomatoes and growing them until they are large enough to transfer to Kratky jars and then on out into the garden.I have another knock-off Aerogarden that's a pain to work with. It's got 12 pods and is larger, which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that you have to unplug and take the whole thing to the sink to clean it. This Aerogarden Harvest has a lift-out water reservoir that's easy to unhook from the main unit, and I far prefer the little water-viewing cut-out on the top of the tray to the side window on my knock-off unit; I can never see the water level because the light is always wrong. The way this Harvester unit is designed, checking water level is simple and straightforward.

I started my plants a few days ago. Easy to use. Just waiting for the bounty.

Started harvesting a bit of the herbs by week 4! Although the thyme, like I had seen in pervious reviews, did not grow at all. However, all the other plants are healthy and grow pretty fast. I got it as a gift for your girlfriend because she was talking about wanting to grow her own herbs and veggies so it's a perfect plant starter/pot because the pods are easy to take out and move to another pot or you can just leave them in a cut a few leaves off every now and then. The light is very bright but if you've got it around in a corner somewhere on the kitchen counter like I do it shouldn't be a problem. I like that the the reminders for food and water don't make any noise but turn the buttons to a flashing red so you easily know when more is needed. Haven't tried to plant anything other than the pods that came with it because I wanted to make sure it was going to work first since we have never tried to grow plants before but eventually I plan on buying their grow your own pods and planting different herbs to use in the kitchen. Overall it's an amazing planter and I would recommend getting this for people who want to get into gardening because like I said you can grow them in the here and easily transfer them to another pot and you can do that as many times as you want! It's also not as big as I expected but it's also not too small and I think it's the perfect size to leave them in if you are going to continuously cut some leaves and stems off otherwise it will obviously eventually outgrow the pot.

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.