Monday, March 7, 2016

AeroGarden: Gardening with K-cups

I wanted to plant a bountiful garden last year. But due to weather and poor planning, it didn't come to fruition. Oh well. For my birthday this year, Ashleigh bought me a Miracle-Gro AeroGarden 6. Tough to fuck this one up. All you do is put these little pods into the base of the AeroGarden, fill with water, throw in some nutrients, and bam, K-cup garden. Here's some pics of what it looks like:

These are the "pods"

Closer look at the pods

Where da water goes

You just push the pods into the designated holes, putting tall plants in the back and medium to short in any of the front holes

Just throw the little plastic covers on top and take them off when they start sprouting

Set it and forget it timer for the lights, based on what you're growing

Here's the full setup

Plant food

And the grow lights

For now I'm just doing the herb kit that came with the setup but if this is successful, Ashleigh also bought a "grow your own" pod kit where it's the pod with the soil and you add whatever seeds you want into it.

6 comments:

  1. That looks like a sweet setup. It looks like you should be the first on the fur to get a hydro setup to work.

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    1. Can't really take any credit though, not like I built it myself. Should still be cool though

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  2. I'm going to be envious when you're growing indoor artisanal tomatoes.

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    1. Probably just get some romas going. Definitely plan on doing some peppers though

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    2. How big/tall of plants can you grow?

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    3. Good question, I'll need to look it up.

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