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| Brand: AeroGrow
Category: Lawn & Patio
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| Customer Reviews:
 One Small Crop Not Worth It June 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The green beans were my third or fourth seed crop from the Aerogarden folks. Had great success with the herbs, and have been trying other crops to gauge my success and interest. Sadly, the green beans I considered a bust. I got one meager handful of beans from this; no more. I'm going back to the herbs after this.
One thing that is a challenge with the beans - once they flower, you have to be your own "bee" to get them pollinated.
Bottom Line: Would not recommend this seed kit.
Worthless June 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The plants grew huge, flowered, but never produced tomatoes. We shook them like the instructions said, but zero tomatoes. On top of that, over the last few weeks, it has gotten very loud. Sounds like the pump is loosing a bearing or something. We have cleaned it, but still loud. Very disappointed. My wife wants to toss the whole thing in the trash.
Bland fruit - No support - lots of work June 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It took forever for fruit to flower - two of the three plants fruited, grew nice-sized tomatoes, but the weight caused them to topple. Next, the leaves all rotted off but the remaining fruit ripened...bland, ugh, no taste. The remaining plant finally grew fruit and they ripened red with tons of tape, etc. to support it (that's where all the extra work came in - trying to keep the plant upright). Taste on these was a little better but far from worth the effort. Back to herbs!!! (I do love the aerogarden for the herbs!)
Herbs were great, tomatoes a flop April 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was so pleased with the herbs I grew in my standard Aerogarden I bought a second one so I could grow both herbs and cherry tomatoes. Wrong! The herbs did fine again, but what they fail to tell you is that the tomatoes require 8 hours of absolute darkness. If you want to have the two gardens in the same room, or even in your living area, forget about the tomatoes. Lovely greenery, no blossoms = no tomatoes. I finally just threw them out. I'll grow herbs again, and maybe try another kit, but I can't recommend the cherry tomato kit.
 More fun than cost effective April 22, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having gone through two herb seed kits, I have had mixed results. For my first kit, the basil really thrived and provided me with far more leaves than I could possibly use, and the dill also did well. Unfortunately, the cilantro never sprouted, the mint provided enough harvest for maybe a few mojitos before it died, and the chives were just barely alive. I had better luck with the second herb kit: both types of basil and dill did very well again, and the mint was at least respectable. The cilantro sprouted this time and provided enough leaves for a bit of salsa, but results were still underwhelming. Once again, the chives again were disappointing and barely did anything beyond surviving. I do enjoy watching the plants grow, but the operating costs alone ($20 that seed kits costs plus a few dollars per month on electricity that the bulbs use) are probably far more than it would have cost me to buy these herbs from the grocery store. Still, I'm just not inclined to go and build my own hydroponics garden, and I do plan on using the aerogarden in one way or another until it falls apart. It only kind of works as advertised, but it is an interesting introduction to hydroponics, and I can't imagine making this product any easier to use.
Update: I tried the salad greens kit and would not recommend it. The lettuce plants grow quite well, but I find the leaves to be limp and flavorless.
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