Product Description

Extend the life of your healthy and productive plants with our Extended Season Nutrients. Use when you've run out of the nutrient tablets that came with your seed kit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734 in Lawn & Patio
• Color: Vegetables
• Brand: AeroGrow
• Model: 9402-00Z

Features

• Add up to 3 months of growth (up to 6 months in AeroGarden 3)
• Nutrients plus pH buffer
• Formulated for vegetable plants
• 12 tablets per pack

Customer Reviews

There's a better option.
All you need is a hydroponic nutrient solution from, for example, General Hydroponics. It, like other systems, have two or three components, that contain micro-nutrients your plants need all the time and growth phase specific nutrients. For herbs like basil or chives and other non-flowering plants all you need is the growth formula. If you grow vegies and other plants that will bloom or flower, you switch to the other nutrient solution when they start to develop. For ~$35 kit(s/h included), you can get a pint of each solution. You use up 1-3 tsp/gal from each solution. 96 tsp = 1 gallon, which is a little over the capacity of the classic aerogarden. That's about 32 feedings per $25. Each feeding will last about 2 weeks, more or less, depending on the size of your plants. You will have to get a Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) meter to monitor the nutrient concentration or just wing it. 16 months for $35 versus the 6 months for the equivalent price.

Effective, expensive
The main thing these packs have going for them is the convenience. You don't need to think twice over when to add them, just follow the directions. In our case, it's the kids who take care of the little details and we only harvest the leaves :)

We never skipped applying the tablets when needed so, since we get good, green leaves off our garden, I assume that they are effective and that they are making a difference. I can't tell what would happen if we didn't use them or didn't apply them as often as directed or tried some alternative solution.

However, I find them WAY OVERPRICED and it makes us feel like captive customers, nickel and dimed because we have no other choice. There should be a lot more tablets in the little bag.

Do I recommend a buy? Given the lack of any known competitive choice, yes. If anyone has an alternative, let's hear about it :)

Very over-priced
These tablets are way, way, way overpriced. This is nothing more than some garden variety (yuck yuck) chemicals and buffer agents, but they are charging almost 20 bucks? Are you kidding me? Clearly, this is where they make a lot of their profit. I am quite fond of our little AeroGarden here, but the cost of these nutrients will probably lead us to retire it. Get real, Aerogarden.