AeroGrow AeroGarden with Gourmet Herb Seed Kit, Black | 
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| Brand: AeroGrow
Category: Lawn & Patio
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $115.89
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Rating:  190 reviews
Sales Rank: 16
Color: Black
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15.5
Dimensions (in): 16 x 9.5 x 11.8
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MPN: 240395B
Model: 2101-00B
UPC: 833304004272
EAN: 0857459001719
ASIN: B000FI4O90
Release Date: February 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The original indoor garden | | • | Everything you need to grow now | | • | Easy, foolproof and 100% guaranteed | | • | No dirt, no mess, no green thumb required | | • | Over 400,000 satisfied AeroGardeners |
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Product Description
Using the built-in Plant Lighting System, grow Plants Anywhere in your home any time of year. The Full daylight spectrum allows you to grow anywhere with no natural sunlight needed while being energy efficient. The Plug & Grow(tm) Bio-Dome(tm) Seed System has 100% Germination Guaranteed. Pre-seeded grow pods enclosed in their own mini-greenhouse for ultra-fast seed germination usually within 24 hours. Computerized Smart Garden Technology Guarantees 100% Success with no Green Thumb needed. The built-in reminder system automatically alerts you to add water and nutrients. The built-in light timer automatically turns lights on and off with no set up required. The Aeroponic Optimizing Chamber creates a Near-Perfect Rainforest Growing environment. Plant roots are suspended in the air in a 100% humidity, highly oxygenated aeroponic growing chamber and bathed with ideal levels of nutrients and water for maximum growth. Just add water and nutrients and you're ready to grow twice as fast as dirt. Micro-processor automatically adjusts nutrient delivery, light cycles and water flow for specific plant types for faster healthier growth.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 185 more reviews...
 Will probably buy another January 2, 2009
J. Lee (Plano, TX)
I've been using this a little over a week and all my pods have sprouted. I actually removed the dill and parsley seeds from the pods and used cilantro and sweet basil instead and they have been growing faster than the included seeds. I've seen some complaints about how much electricity this unit uses but I haven't had any issues. I have a kill-a-watt meter and the unit pulls around 47 watts with lights and pump on. Assuming you use the herb setting on your Aerogarden then monthly energy cost would be... 47 watts x 17 hours = 799 watts / 1000 (converting to kwh) = .799 * 31 days in cycle = 24.769 kwh * $.14/kwh the electric company charges on average = $3.47 increase on the electric bill per month. The Master Gardener kit is a great add-on kit you can buy that allows you to plant whatever seeds you want plus a year supply of nutrient tablets as well. Also you have an option on the manufacturer web site to create your own kit and chose what individual pods you want in your set.
I never thought of myself as a gardener before January 2, 2009
James Beswick (San Francisco, CA)
What an awesome little product - 8 fresh herbs, growing like they're on steroids, available freshly every time you cook. The planting and maintenance could not be simpler, and as long as you can stand the sound of running water 16 hours a day, the unit is as unnoticeable as it is productive.
Since fresh herbs tend to cost $2.99 a pack from my local Safeway or Trader Joe's, we should break even on the unit within 12 weeks. To be honest though, Aerogrow's herbs taste fresher than their supermarket counterparts, presumably because they haven't been trapped in a plastic box shipped around the country! What a great product.
 Herbs grown this way taste bad, sucks electricity like crazy December 31, 2008
International Diva
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a culinary school grad and a part-time caterer and so I know what herbs should taste like. It must be something in the liquid soil, but the herbs that come out of this taste awful and metallic. I grew two separate crops thinking that something was wrong with the first one. The second one tasted terrible, too. I mean, they taste like a mercury thermometer that I accidentally bit on as a kid. It was just gross all the way around. I had several friends try the herbs too. I tried repeatedly to use them. I served a salad with a few sprigs of these herbs included just to test them at a dinner and everyone complained about the pungent, off-putting flavor that the few sprigs lent to the dish. So this isn't just me.
I thought, "OK, I'll grow some flowers." But the reality is that for the increase in electricity that this requires, I can buy at least two bouquets of fresh flowers each month. This increased my electricity bill by nearly $20 per month over my average consumption for the same period last year. This was pointed out to me by a friend who works for the local power company said that these devices are notorious power consumers.
I got this as a gift from someone who knows that I am a cook but who has not been to my home. It was a well meaning gesture. But the reality is that I have been growing herbs in pots for years in my little, urban kitchen window without any real difficulty. I do have an inexpensive grow light to nurture along newcomers or to extend the "day" during the winter by three or four hours. Those taste great. It isn't that hard. You don't need to spend nearly $200 to grow herbs in your kitchen that taste bad.
Totally AWESOME!!!! December 22, 2008
KJ (Maryland)
I purchased this product because of comments from friends & family & they were right on! I can't tell you the pleasure I get from harvesting fresh herbs & tomatoes all year long. Either from health reasons or saving time or even saving on gas all these are valid reasons to give this product a go. To top it off it looks great & is a number 1 crowd pleaser no matter who comes into our home.
I would highly recommend for your health & your families.
Great for fresh herbs, brightens the kitchen, kids maintain it :) December 20, 2008
A. Dent (USA)
We've been growing our own herbs in the AeroGarden for more than a year already.
We do have our 'real' garden, outdoors, but the growing season in Pennsylvania's Poconos is not that long and the regular supermarket greens are usually yucky. So, between the expensive 'organic' stuff and the AeroGarden, I'd say the purchase price plus what we pay for the seeds, the nutrient packs and the electricity is not really setting us back too much or at all. The advantage is the nice 'garden' we keep all year. And it does brighten our kitchen, it gets the kids interested in plant growth and adding water and keeping the nutrients schedule is an interesting chore for them and, of course, we get the fresh herbs, including the famous 'arugula' we've heard of recently. Of the harvest, we've been most successful with basil so far and we constantly failed the cherry tomatoes with all else somewhere in-between but we are overall pleased.
The positives in brief:
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+ provides fresh vegetables at times it's hard or impossible to grow them outdoors
+ relatively low maintenance, our kids are in charge and they seem to be doing a good job at it
+ bright light in the winter can improve mood
+ preferable to the 'organic' supermarket alternatives
+ my wife's girlfriends are all impressed and it makes her look like a hi-tech indoor gardening genius
The less impressive aspects in brief:
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- Relatively expensive
- Seed packs can be expensive
- It does burn a lot of electricity on a 17-hour lights-on mode
- Couldn't grow cherry tomatoes and we did try 3 times. Growing tomatoes inside a pod this small is too ambitious a goal
- Customer service not always helpful
I find the negatives total adding up to about one star. It's a little more than one star, really, but I'm rounding it all up to a 4-star. We do not regret purchasing an AeroGarden and we are still using it, one year later. The only regret we have is that we bought it off the TV campaign because we could have saved a lot if we watched Amazon for a sale.
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