The Very Best Indoor Garden Kits
An indoor gardening kit is the best solution I’ve found to the fresh-herb problem — it allows you to harvest your greens minutes before you use them
By Erin Schwartz
NY Magazine
Aug 9, 2022
Excerpt:
AeroGarden’s smart garden, recommended by George Pisegna, deputy director and chief of horticulture at the Horticultural Society of New York, checks all the boxes: It’s compact, comes in a range of sizes, contains a pump and comes with fertilizer, and produces a prodigious quantity of herbs even in the three-pod model I tested, the brand’s smallest. (The company also makes a popular six-pod model.) I preferred it to the Click & Grow Smart Garden 3, which I’d had for about a year — the AeroGarden Sprout is smaller and less expensive, and the garden has fewer problems with algae and mold. (The AeroGarden does make a burbling noise as the pump works, so if you find that annoying, the Click & Grow Garden may be a better option.)
The AeroGarden Sprout took almost no time to set up, and depending on the model, a light or LED display will remind you when to refill water and replenish “plant food,” a synthetic fertilizer with an NPK ratio of 4-3-6 that is included in the kit. Unlike the Click & Grow garden, the tank’s components come apart easily for cleaning, so even if you do develop a mold problem, the system can be thoroughly sterilized without resorting to Q-tips or angling a spray bottle into a hard-to-reach crevice.
