Product Description

Grow delicious vine-ripened cherry tomatoes, right in your home. Enjoy the sweet flavor of fresh-picked tomatoes in salads and salsas, even in the middle of winter. Contains two Red Heirloom and one Golden Harvest Cherry Tomato Seed Pods. Ready to harvest in ten to twelve weeks and continues producing fruit for up to six months.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #626 in Lawn & Patio
• Color: Cherry Tomato
• Brand: AeroGrow
• Model: 0002-00Z
• Released on: 2006-06-01
• Dimensions: 1.75" h x 5.25" w x 9.75" l, 3.53 pounds

Features

• Cherry tomatoes grow 5 times faster than in dirt
• No dirt, no weeds, no mess
• Organic based, 100 percent natural
• Always fresh, always available
• No gardening experience necessary

From the Manufacturer
The AeroGarden Seed Kits feature the "Plug 'N Grow" Bio-dome Seed System. Each pod has a dome that creates a perfect, mini-greenhouse environment for young seedlings. The pod label helps optimize humidity for germination and identifies your plants. Inside is the pre-seeded grow sponge which balances the amount of water and air the young seedling receives. Each Seed Pod's placement in the AeroGarden is mapped inside the box. Each kit has its own nutrient tablets bagged and clearly marked for use in the correct order. These time-release, nutrient tablets contain everything: all the micro and macro nutrients each plant needs, plus seaweed and a patented secret ingredient that keeps the pH (acidity) of your tap water in the perfect range for growing plants. Imagine vine-ripened, fresh from the garden tomato flavor in the middle of winter. The Cherry Tomato Kit contains two Red Heirloom and one Golden Harvest cherry tomato plants bursting with flavor and color. Flowers bloom in 30 days, tomatoes appear in six weeks, with harvestable fruit within two months.

Customer Reviews

Worthless
The plants grew huge, flowered, but never produced tomatoes. We shook them like the instructions said, but zero tomatoes. On top of that, over the last few weeks, it has gotten very loud. Sounds like the pump is loosing a bearing or something. We have cleaned it, but still loud. Very disappointed. My wife wants to toss the whole thing in the trash.

More fun than cost effective
Having gone through two herb seed kits, I have had mixed results. For my first kit, the basil really thrived and provided me with far more leaves than I could possibly use, and the dill also did well. Unfortunately, the cilantro never sprouted, the mint provided enough harvest for maybe a few mojitos before it died, and the chives were just barely alive. I had better luck with the second herb kit: both types of basil and dill did very well again, and the mint was at least respectable. The cilantro sprouted this time and provided enough leaves for a bit of salsa, but results were still underwhelming. Once again, the chives again were disappointing and barely did anything beyond surviving. I do enjoy watching the plants grow, but the operating costs alone ($20 that seed kits costs plus a few dollars per month on electricity that the bulbs use) are probably far more than it would have cost me to buy these herbs from the grocery store. Still, I'm just not inclined to go and build my own hydroponics garden, and I do plan on using the aerogarden in one way or another until it falls apart. It only kind of works as advertised, but it is an interesting introduction to hydroponics, and I can't imagine making this product any easier to use.

Update: I tried the salad greens kit and would not recommend it. The lettuce plants grow quite well, but I find the leaves to be limp and flavorless.

Aerogarden great, tomato seed kit not
We are at week 16 and still no tomatoes after following instructions to a T. Get the herbs. They last and are easy to maintain.