5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for northern winters

2025-12-27    -Terracool

I've seen ads for these things for years and thought they had to be the biggest white elephant known to man - some vaguely more sophisticated cousin of the Chia Pet. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!This thing is great. It does everything it says and more, is easy to use, and will give me fresh greens all winter.I'm looking forward to having bright fresh greens while blizzards rage outside - and this gives more than enough for one person - I have trouble keeping up with a few things. It's given me more beautiful dill than I can use, by a mile (the photo is less than half the dill that I finally had to hack back because it was crowding other things).Best part is that this is almost zero work. Top off the water every now and then (up to every day or two as the plants get bigger) and add two capfuls of plant food every two weeks when the light goes on. Could. Not. Be. Easier.I learned a few things from my first round, so here are some helps and hints:- I started with only four items, planning on planting the other two after 2-3 weeks so my harvests would be staggered. Mistake. This stuff grows so fast that the greenery from my first round blocked the light from getting to the later plantings. I spent a few weeks trying to pull back the higher stuff to create a path for the light to the newer stuff but finally gave up. Learned for next time, though.- Ditto with not putting things that take a few weeks to sprout (the plant cone has est sprout time written on the top) next to things that sprout in days or the later items may struggle to get light. Next time I'll arrange plants so that things with similar sprout times are somewhat together.- This one's no joke. Plant things that you will use a lot. Things like basil, parsley and chives can go on almost everything, but uses for something like dill are more limited. Next round I will favor things that are versatile and have wide use, because this grows A LOT of everything.- And final comment on balance, next time I will plant maybe four salad greens and two herbs. You use the greens in more volume, so they will balance out with the herbs if you plant more. So 4-2 or maybe 3-3- The light is really, really bright. Pick a place where it's easy to walk to from the kitchen with a bowl and scissors, but not in your face where it could get irritating. If you cycle it on during the day, it won't be so intrusive. This thing throws zero heat, so you can block the light easily if needed with stacked items or even a paper bag over top.- The bigger your plants get, the more they suck up the water. At first I only had to top off the water once a week or so. Now I'm adding about a pop bottle of water every few days. I worry about what happens when travel resumes because I can see it running out quickly when I'm not here. There is a model of AeroGarden with a vacation mode that adjust lights so the plants grow less and need less water while you're away, and if I get a second AG, it will have the vacation mode.That's it! This thing really works and is a lot of fun. For a single-person household, it almost works too good because there's a lot of greens to eat! I will solve that by using better balance and targeted selection of plants for the next round.

Very nice compact hypdroponic growing system

2026-02-02    -Florence

This is a very nice small, compact hydroponic garden. I have grown lettuce and herbs very successfully in this little unit. The "leaf" button on the top of the light panel is a little tricky to figure out at first. Very easy to take apart to clean.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for northern winters

2026-02-09    -Terracool

I've seen ads for these things for years and thought they had to be the biggest white elephant known to man - some vaguely more sophisticated cousin of the Chia Pet. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!This thing is great. It does everything it says and more, is easy to use, and will give me fresh greens all winter.I'm looking forward to having bright fresh greens while blizzards rage outside - and this gives more than enough for one person - I have trouble keeping up with a few things. It's given me more beautiful dill than I can use, by a mile (the photo is less than half the dill that I finally had to hack back because it was crowding other things).Best part is that this is almost zero work. Top off the water every now and then (up to every day or two as the plants get bigger) and add two capfuls of plant food every two weeks when the light goes on. Could. Not. Be. Easier.I learned a few things from my first round, so here are some helps and hints:- I started with only four items, planning on planting the other two after 2-3 weeks so my harvests would be staggered. Mistake. This stuff grows so fast that the greenery from my first round blocked the light from getting to the later plantings. I spent a few weeks trying to pull back the higher stuff to create a path for the light to the newer stuff but finally gave up. Learned for next time, though.- Ditto with not putting things that take a few weeks to sprout (the plant cone has est sprout time written on the top) next to things that sprout in days or the later items may struggle to get light. Next time I'll arrange plants so that things with similar sprout times are somewhat together.- This one's no joke. Plant things that you will use a lot. Things like basil, parsley and chives can go on almost everything, but uses for something like dill are more limited. Next round I will favor things that are versatile and have wide use, because this grows A LOT of everything.- And final comment on balance, next time I will plant maybe four salad greens and two herbs. You use the greens in more volume, so they will balance out with the herbs if you plant more. So 4-2 or maybe 3-3- The light is really, really bright. Pick a place where it's easy to walk to from the kitchen with a bowl and scissors, but not in your face where it could get irritating. If you cycle it on during the day, it won't be so intrusive. This thing throws zero heat, so you can block the light easily if needed with stacked items or even a paper bag over top.- The bigger your plants get, the more they suck up the water. At first I only had to top off the water once a week or so. Now I'm adding about a pop bottle of water every few days. I worry about what happens when travel resumes because I can see it running out quickly when I'm not here. There is a model of AeroGarden with a vacation mode that adjust lights so the plants grow less and need less water while you're away, and if I get a second AG, it will have the vacation mode.That's it! This thing really works and is a lot of fun. For a single-person household, it almost works too good because there's a lot of greens to eat! I will solve that by using better balance and targeted selection of plants for the next round.

Very nice compact hypdroponic growing system

2025-12-24    -Florence

This is a very nice small, compact hydroponic garden. I have grown lettuce and herbs very successfully in this little unit. The "leaf" button on the top of the light panel is a little tricky to figure out at first. Very easy to take apart to clean.

Basically a novelty product

2026-02-01    -Queentwig

This is a cute little device and for awhile it was fun to grow things in my kitchen over the winter. However, if you want to grow anything more than maybe herds or flowers it’s kind of useless. If you say grow a variety of lettuce, in a month you may have enough for a salad. And then you have to start again. I tried several different types of seeds and the only one I really felt to be useful was the basil. The tea set makes no sense as they all grow at different rates so you never really have the right ingredients for fresh tea. The tomatoes were cute but it took quite awhile to get about 6 cherry tomatoes.If you really want to grow food in your home maybe a bigger model would make more sense and then plant things according to how long it will take them to produce something edible.Would also be useful for starting your own plants for your garden if you bought the grow your own kit.

Nice little unit and very quiet

2026-01-19    -Allan (Canada)

I really enjoy this unit , very easy to use and setup . Very quiet can't hear it even standing next to it . Very bright light and will stay on for 15 hrs so put it somewhere at night where the light won't bother you . I planted it on Dec28th 2021 and this picture is from today Jan 18th 2022 , 2 of the plants did not come up the mint and the thyme but I guess if you go to the website you can get a replacement pods .Nice little unit takes up little space and would recommend this unit .

Nice little unit and very quiet

2026-02-01    -Allan (Canada)

I really enjoy this unit , very easy to use and setup . Very quiet can't hear it even standing next to it . Very bright light and will stay on for 15 hrs so put it somewhere at night where the light won't bother you . I planted it on Dec28th 2021 and this picture is from today Jan 18th 2022 , 2 of the plants did not come up the mint and the thyme but I guess if you go to the website you can get a replacement pods .Nice little unit takes up little space and would recommend this unit .

Amazing

2026-02-08    -Johanne Poirier

I loved this so much, I bought a few different ones, but all AeroGarden. Waiting for 2 to arrive from amazon.ca, one I ordered elsewhere as it was on sale and picked that one up. But these are amazing, harvested romaine lettuce already, my tomatoes are finally starting to have little green balls where the flowers where. I watch them grow each day. Everyone who visits me keep stating how they are amazed how fast things grow in this. I had bought this originally because the store bought Romaine lettuce kept being recalled for contamination, so I decided to grow my own. I am hooked on these Aerogarden. Keep checking for sales and that is why I am waiting for 2 to arrive as they were 47 % off they are 9 pods. I cannot wait to start planting more stuff. I also planted some of the herbs that come with the machines and they are also growing nicely. My boyfriend wants to build me a shelf unit to put all of these units on that I am getting, he loves the taste of those fresh Romaine lettuce, he is also hooked, we plan to start some in 1 machine, then about 3 weeks later start some in another, so we never run out as it took 3 weeks before being able to harvest the Romaine. I will plant more tomatoes and some of the other herbs in the new ones I will be getting.

5.0 out of 5 stars The best purchase I’ve made for fresh herbs at home

2026-03-05    -Mirexugc

The media could not be loaded. This is honestly one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. Having fresh herbs growing right in my kitchen has completely changed how I cook and eat. Everything grows quickly, looks healthy, and requires almost no effort.It’s incredibly easy to set up and maintain — just add water, drop in the pods, and let it do its thing. Within a short time, I had beautiful, fresh greens ready to use.If you love cooking or just want easy access to fresh herbs year-round, this is absolutely worth it. I use it every day and couldn’t imagine my kitchen without it now.

Wrong plug

2026-02-16    -Peter McDonbald

Love the product, the only thing was that when I received the item it was fitted with an American plug as they know it was being delivered to UK, but happy with the product.