AeroGarden Progress - 15 Days

[penguingardener]

I had considered on doing a time lapse, but instead found several time lapse aerogarden videos on YouTube like this one. It's really amazing to see the progress live though.

Day 0 ~ Day 6 ~ Day 15

Comments

[joeysplanting]

That is AWESOME!!! I'm looking forward to see your harvesting photos :)

Is the light really bright? I figure, that if I get some for my Coleus, I would probably need six of them... hehe

[penguingardener]

The light is really bright, I think I read that it's about 1450 lumens. That's why I started putting seedlings around it, even those are growing really well with the aerogarden lights.

I do want to get the Master Gardener Aerogarden Kit and put in my own seeds. That's an idea to set up an aerogarden of coleus...hmm...

I am interested in seeing if these pick up in general interest, then maybe they'll sell for less than $100.

You know Mother's Day is coming up, would you mom get a kick out of one? :)

[joeysplanting]

That's a good idea to take advantage of the light.

I'm curious, what is the planting medium? Peat? Perlite? Vermiculite? Sponge?

I'm just wondering, because I just bought a pakage of Watersorb (water retaining crystals) and I'm wondering if that can be used as a growing medium... hmm?

That'll be nice if they get popular and drop in price. I don't know if my mom would like one though, since see doesn't really grow thing or start plants indoors.

[penguingardener]

The planting medium is a sponge in a plastic pod and water is regularly pumped to each pod.

My strawberry plant kit arrived yesterday and I set up my second aerogarden this morning. I took macro photos of the roots and sponge and will try to post today.

Laugh, I don't know if I really consider my salads aerogarden to be gardening. It's been very light on maintenance.

The Wonder Soil wafers I have seem to have water retaining crystals in them. I definitely don't like them for seedlings. They seem to be okay with mature plants. I don't know for sure, but just about all seedlings I had in wonder soil seem to have been easily succumbed to early blight. I used wonder soil for potting up some tomatoes, they seem to be fine and are being hardened right now.

[fleurlady]

Hi!
I am a friend of joeysplanting..and i stopped by. I love this kit! i never knew anything about them. Do you like it? and may I ask what model you have?
Thanks, and we kinda love the same things :) i knit too!
Julie

[penguingardener]

Hi and welcome!

I have the regular Aerogarden 2006. I only ordered it around April and was hoping to get a 2007. Oh well. I heard they came out with a new Pro version, I don't know what's new about it other than the steel finish.

We really like the salads kit. Grows fast and minimal maintenance. Gosh, I don't even consider it gardening. And honestly, I really think I notice the leaves grow when I glance over.

I'll have to visit your blog, do you have any of your knitting posted? I just finished a pinwheel baby blanket for my niece, but she reads my blog. I'll have to post after I send it to her. I doubt she reads any of my gardening posts. ;)

The blanket is about done being blocked. Whee!