Pros: Fresh (free) Herbs
Cons:
The light is on most of the day; 16 hours.
The herbs grow too fast to consume that quickly.
The dill did not grow at all.
Uses electricity.
Herbs are decent. Nothing spectacular.
Overall, if you use fresh herbs every single day, the AeroGarden is worth having. I don’t use basil, dill, cilantro, mint, etc every single day, so it’s very difficult to keep up with the herbs when they finally start to grow. The AeroGarden requires constant light and water. The water, after the herbs are fully-grown, is drained rather quickly.
AeroGarden offers other vegetables, plants and herbs, besides the collection I’ve been testing. These herbs seem to die soon after you cut them off the plant, though the plant continues to grow so rapidly.
My last set of nutrition tablets also known as plant food will be used soon and then we’ll see how the plants hold up.
Stay tuned and in the meantime, check out the growth of the garden.
Tags: aerogarden, green, green product reviews, herbs, leafygreen.info, vegan, vegetarian, veggies
Hello Mike,
Thanks for testing out the AeroGarden and reviewing it on Leafygreen. My name is Lorraine, and I actually work at AeroGrow.
I have a big, beautiful organic soil garden for about 7 months out of the year, and when that shuts down for the winter, I grow cilantro and parsley in my AeroGarden through spring. It’s true: the lights are on 17 hours a day and the darn thing grows cilantro almost (but not quite) as fast as Tito and I can eat it. It saves us buying the California-grown, trucked-to-Colorado stuff from Safeway, which is sometimes a little slimy around the gills by the time it even gets to us. I’m not sure how to calculate the difference in footprints between the electricity/trucking/driving-to-the-store of the storebought herbs, vs. the fresh herbs from my AeroGarden, but I can say that I love having always-fresh herbs on hand. It has changed the way I cook and eat. Again, thanks for taking a look at us, and if you or your readers have questions about the gardens, I am a pretty good place to start.