Accessories

Great product - Cannot understand bad reviews
I have had my aerogarden for a couple of years and I have grown the tomatoes, spices, petunias, a number of things. All grew wonderfully. The children loved watching it grow. Everyone who comes in the door comments on the cleverness of the product - so comments about it not being made well or does not work well doesn't make sense to me - maybe they got a bad unit or maybe they didn't give minimal care to the plants or I am not sure - because I love mine and I liked it so much, I sent one to my favorite niece. That's a big present for a little girl and had the aerogarden had been a sticky product - I would have not considered it. My niece loved it and she is on her third pack of seeds. And now I am the favorite Aunt - haha

seems to work, but probably can make it yourself
I was hoping that this would use the existing pump system and be constructed with different materials than styrofoam, however, the main unit appears to be a dense syrofoam piece--per instructions, you need to remove the entire Aerogarden tray and pump system before using this (so you know that those parts will not be used).

My disappointment stems from a setup that wicks than drips--in the regular Aerogarden, the system drips, some settings have a 7 hour drying out period to give roots some time to get air. A wicking setup does not get the period to air out.

This unit appears to resemble a raft / floating hydroponic system--where the plugs wick the nutrient water from the bottom; the floating system always keep the water toucheable from the bottom to wick.

Apparently, the only key part of the Aerogarden used is the automatic lightening and plastic shell as a custom-fit bucket. Otherwise, you probably can let this float in a bucket of similar size and find similar lighting.

I am highly confident that this will work well; however, I would proabably prefer to let my Aerogarden keep working on producing herbs, and find a bucket to let this float in.

Like a raft systems, the underside of strofoam grows funky stuff. Cleaning can sometimes scratch and tear if not gentle or careful. I assume similar care will be needed here.

The concept appears to be sound. I am writing this review to let anyone know what to expect on what they are getting when they order this product--a fancy shaped piece of dense styrofoam, good-fair instructions on use, and nutriet tablets.

Awesome!
I love my aerogarden. I've got a first kit and love to have fresh herbs to cook with. The gaden starter tray is awesome. It's now 2 weeks that I have put the seeds in. A mix of veggies, annual and perrenial. I cannot wait to put them in my garden/yards.

Good Luck
Good luck ordering this product. I ordered one straigt from the aerogarden website back in March and still have not received. They are not producing them very quickly. Make sure they are definately in stock before you "click to buy"!

I only rated it a 1 because I haven't gotten mine yet. My dad received his and it worked really well! It's worth the money but I'm not sure about the wait. It's just styrofoam with 70 holes in it why does it take so long to make?!?!

It's ok
The product does what it says.. grows stuff. And the plants I started in it transplanted well. But they didn't say the pods smell like cow poo. There is no water circulation, so you have cow poo pods sitting in still water. They smell bad, and changing the water every day or so is a pain. I won't use this again unless they have a way to have water circulating or make pods that don't smell.