A Gadget Called Aero Garden
I happened to be watching TV with my kids last night (Kenny the Shark, to be exact - Kenny is just so cool that you can’t help but love him). I don’t normally watch a lot of television because I find that the only shows that even half interest me are totally mind numbing. I mean who likes to feel like a vegetable? Anyway, a commerical came on. The commercial was for this gadget, for lack of a better term, that I fell completely in love with and haven’t even tried it yet! From the moment I saw what it was all about, I was hooked. This is very unsual for me because I always like to try things out before saying I’m in love.
The gadget? An AeroGarden! What exactly is it and why am I totally in love with a product that I haven’t even tried? First of all, I would love to have a garden. I have asked my husband for one every year since I have been married, sometimes twice a year. So that makes, at a minimum, 11 times that I have asked (even sweetly once or twice) for a garden. However, #1, my husband grew up on a farm, so he had to help with several gardens, acres and acres of produce, that had to be weeded, watered, picked, canned. I need my husband to till the ground here at our house and because of, what I think, is his deep-seated hatred of all things gardening (he has even mowed over flowers that I have planted!), he refuses to even till the land. Well, it could be that reason or the fact that he knows, in the end since he is the expert between the two of us on gardening, he would be the one taking care of it. #2, his dad still plants acres and acres of land with a garden, so we get free fruits and veggies from him, so why should my husband do all of that work, I am sure he thinks to himself but has never voiced that complaint.
So, anyway, no garden for me. Now, one of the problems I have is I run out of the canned veggies that my mother-in-law (and sometimes my mother) provides to me during the winter months. Where we live, it’s cold and snows (a lot!) during the winter. Also, I get so frustrated because I WANT fresh fruits and veggies during the winter, and all I get from the grocery store is pithy celery, oranges that go bad within two days, apples that have no taste, bananas that are green, tomatoes that are hard as a rock and white on the inside (yuck!), and the list goes on. So I need some sort of garden during the winter (or make a lot of trips to my in-laws, which isn’t going to happen).
So that’s where the AeroGarden comes in. This gadget allows you to grow a garden in your home! You can grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs! You can even grow houseplants and flowers if you want! I mean, seriously, how cool is that? Growing a garden in the winter, in the mountains, in my home where I can go pluck a fresh tomato or a fresh strawberry just boggles my mind!
I’m getting one. I’m definitely getting one and I will use it all the time and I will be totally in love with it, I just know it! My husband and I looked at the AeroGarden website last night, and of course, he gives it his stamp of approval.
I will update after I get it and try it out.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I saw this on tv too. Looks pretty neat. I live in a colder climate too, so fresh veggies or greens year round would be great. Let us know if it really works. My brother in law once bought the “perfect pancake maker” off tv. When we flipped the pan, the batter fell out the sides … lol, what a mess! That being said, I’m a bit leary about some of those product commercials on tv. Looking forward to your review and update.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Wow - that’s neat! I’ve been planning on growing a garden but don’t need the output from an outdoor garden to produce vegetables for one person. I’ll have to try it.