How long can you harvest something grown in an AeroGarden?
The AeroGarden looks like a fantastic product. With so many animals in the area I live trying to grown flowers or even food isn’t really doable unless I buy a green house or keep things on the deck. Even with that the temperature swings in weird ways due to living in a mountain area. So the AeroGarden seems like the best way to go.
I know you can grow various types of herbs and vegetables but I have a question about harvesting. How many times can you harvest what you grow?
One harvest and then you have to buy new seed kits?
Or will things such as tomatoes, strawberries, etc keep regrowing?
If you grow flowers are you able to transfer them to normal potting soil or do they simply stay in the AeroGarden, continuing to grow until you tire of them and toss them out?
Thanks.
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I looked at that too. The plants will get to the point they aren’t producing anymore. Once AeroGarden gets you, you have to keep buying more. Water grown roots don’t do as well in soil. So you have to buy new seed kits. That’s why I didn’t buy it.
I have an AeroGarden – the big one – and I love it, but it does take some practice and learning.
It greatly depends on what you grow. I would NEVER try tomatoes in it again. I did excellent with Spinach, Spinach Mustard and Lettuce. I would just remove the outer leaves and the plants kept growing. That was my best crop so far.
Same with the herbs, if you pick them right, to encourage more growth, they just keep growing. Like with sweet basil – after it gets going, you cut the top off and you get two more shutes from the sides, can you can keep doing that. I got a lot of basil – enough to make pesto a few times.
The key is to grow things that grow at the same rate/height, so they don’t fight for light/nutrients. Or if something you are planting grows fast with something else, plant that a bit later.
I have had the best luck doing all of the same thing at once.
Unless you are doing something special like their “dwarf cherry tomatoes” or some special plant, I have had really good luck with normal seeds from the store. They are much cheaper than their seed packs.
Also, once out of their nutrients, I started using liquid fertilizer. You kindof have to play around and see what works.
Hope this helps.