Aerogarden Harvest - Mesculine Salad and Herbs

[jfla]

Imgur Album of my Day 1 - Day 25 growth of Aerogarden Harvest.  Please bear with me as it is my first imgur album post ever.  I am going to check as soon as it posts and fix if it is screwed up.

I started on a Sprout, but it was much too loud and the vibration annoyed me.  I bought a Harvest and returned the sprout which was already planted on about day three.  Since I had extra spaces in the Harvest, I bought a grow anything pod kit and got seeds at WalMart.  Mesclun salad Mix was added to the three empty spaces.

Day 25, today, was my first meager salad harvest to which I added some chives and a tomato.  Post work salad snack was awesome!

I trimmed the basil using the advice on a post here about trimming after the 3rd set of real leaves after the cotyledon(?) leaves to promote bushiness on the basil. it really helps. I also trimmed the roots since the salad is very prolific.

Bonus garden-in-a-can growing in the excess light from the aerogarden. Basil is rocking in both and is a welcome addition to pizza and spaghetti!  It really is that easy and quite satisfying. 

Aerogarden day 1 - 25

I checked it works for me, but please let me know if you all cannot see the pictures...

[Kate]

Mar 1, 2018 17:29:50 GMT -5 jfla said:

Imgur Album of my Day 1 - Day 25 growth of Aerogarden Harvest.  Please bear with me as it is my first imgur album post ever.  I am going to check as soon as it posts and fix if it is screwed up.

I started on a Sprout, but it was much too loud and the vibration annoyed me.  I bought a Harvest and returned the sprout which was already planted on about day three.  Since I had extra spaces in the Harvest, I bought a grow anything pod kit and got seeds at WalMart.  Mesclun salad Mix was added to the three empty spaces.

Day 25, today, was my first meager salad harvest to which I added some chives and a tomato.  Post work salad snack was awesome!

I trimmed the basil using the advice on a post here about trimming after the 3rd set of real leaves after the cotyledon(?) leaves to promote bushiness on the basil. it really helps. I also trimmed the roots since the salad is very prolific.

Bonus garden-in-a-can growing in the excess light from the aerogarden. Basil is rocking in both and is a welcome addition to pizza and spaghetti!  It really is that easy and quite satisfying. 

Aerogarden day 1 - 25

I checked it works for me, but please let me know if you all cannot see the pictures...

It's great! Nice images and text!

I did wonder about the Sprout being loud and vibrating. Mine doesn't vibrate and really all I hear are the bubbles. Go figure.

[jfla]

Thank you.  Awesome that someone else can see the pictures!  I was worried about that.

Yeah, the sprout was very loud.  I think it is because it has an Air Pump in it.  I believe the installation of the air pump can effect how loud it is, and let me tell you mine was loud.  i guess it is luck of the draw, but mine was a no go.

I actually ordered it online after seeing the harvests in Bed Bath Beyond ( which i rarely venture into) and after the noise, I read the posts here and on Aerogarden site and saw the Harvest has a different pump type which is much quieter.  I do not hear the harvest and it only cycles on 5 min each hour.  Being in the kitchen, it is much better now.

[Kate]

I have a Sprout LED and an Extra. Neither is especially noisy, other than water and bubbling sounds. I have an additional external air pump and airstone for the Extra.

It's possible I suppose that your Sprout pump is just louder than mine, but perhaps the pump isn't properly seated in the unit. That might explain the noise and vibration.

[Shawn]

I see the pictures jfla.  Great shots and like Kate said like the info that goes along with them.

[MaryL]

Nice timeline shots.  I’m glad it’s going well, and I like your mesclun mix. 

I’ve read others have problems with how loud the Sprout is also.  I think some units might be louder than others, for some reason.  

[serri588]

I also found the Sprouts too loud. I don't know that it's that they are actually louder, but possibly that the sound is unsettling. Mine are banished to the bathrooms and just have flowers in them.