Life In the Wildwood: Aerogarden

Reading is the bread and butter of this blog. It’s why I started this blog, and it will always be a book blog. I love the bookish community and all of you guys. But we all have different hobbies and interests to share outside of reading and I love seeing posts like that as well. So, I’m starting a series call Life in the Wildwood. It’s going to be a catch all for anything and everything that comes to my mind. If you’re interested, I would suggest you subscribe. I would love to have you on this journey with me.

Now that I’ve said all that, let me tell you about my new hobby. Well, technically it’s an offshoot of my old hobby, gardening. I’ve gardened my entire life, and I love it. This year, I intended to plant lettuce, but I waited too long and missed the planting window for my area. I decided that I would try to grow it in my house to see if it will survive our hot summers. After doing some research, the AeroGarden sounded too fun to pass up. Unlike a normal garden, the AeroGarden is hydroponic which means it grows in water and doesn’t need soil. That’s new to me so there’s going to be a learning curve, but I’m so ready to give it a try.

Unboxing My AeroGarden

I ordered the AeroGarden Harvest Elite which comes with six holes to plant. It also has a timer, automatic lights, and vacation mode. I thought I ordered the one with the lettuce bundle, but I ended up with six types of herbs instead. Either way, I’m excited to get growing.

I could have taken a better unboxing picture, but I didn’t, haha. This is the one that I sent to my friends the moment I opened it. We’re among friends here so y’all get the same treatment that they do. Anyhow, it was a bit more compact than I expected, but I’m glad because it was easy to find a place to put it.

Setting It Up

This was super easy to set up. It probably only took ten minutes. The instructions were easy to follow and concise. The gourmet herb kit that came with it had Genovese Basil, Curly Parsely, Dill, Mint, Thyme, and Thai Basil. I went ahead and planted all six pods despite a few people online recommending that you only do a couple of plants at a time. I initially wanted to grow lettuce in this, so the herbs are just a bonus. I want to grow them until they’re big enough to transplant into my established herb garden outside. Everything except the mint. Please don’t plant mint in the ground. It will take over everything. It does well in containers. But if you’re doing large plants like tomatoes or peppers in the AeroGarden you definitely don’t want to crowd them.

That’s where I am so far with my Aerogarden. I just planted it yesterday, so we’ve got a little wait to see if anything sprouts. I’ll be doing little updates here and there. Hopefully, in the next post we will have some baby herb plants coming in.