Product Description

Start up to 66 seedlings indoors in an AeroGarden, then easily transplant them into your outdoor garden when weather allows. The specially designed tray uses biodegradable, nutrient-rich Grow Pods and works with any 7-Pod AeroGarden. The AeroGarden provides the right amount of light, water and nutrients for fast germination and healthy root development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44733 in Lawn & Patio
• Brand: AeroGrow
• Model: 0019-00Z
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 8.30" w x 13.75" l,

Features

• Turns the AeroGarden into a year-round seed starting machine
• 66-plant capacity
• Includes starter tray and nutrients
• For AeroGarden Classic, PRO100, PR0200 & AeroGarden Deluxe
• Fits 7-pod AeroGarden Classic and AeroGarden 6

Amazon.com Product Description
Designed for use with the 7-pod AeroGarden Classic growing system and the AeroGarden 6, this garden starter tray is a fast, simple, clean and foolproof seed starter that allows gardeners to get a jump on the outdoor growing season. The tray starts up to 70 seedlings at once. Just plant seeds in the starter tray indoors and put them in either the 7-pod AeroGarden Classic growing system or the AeroGarden 6 (sold separately) with no dirt and no mess! The specially designed tray uses biodegradable, nutrient-rich growing media, providing just the right amount of light, water and nutrients for fast germination and healthy root development. Seedlings are ready to transplant to outdoor gardens or containers in just 2 to 6 weeks. Once starts have matured, it's easy to transplant them into an outdoor garden when weather allows. The purchase includes nutrients for a full set of seedlings (refills available separately).

Customer Reviews

seems to work, but probably can make it yourself
I was hoping that this would use the existing pump system and be constructed with different materials than styrofoam, however, the main unit appears to be a dense syrofoam piece--per instructions, you need to remove the entire Aerogarden tray and pump system before using this (so you know that those parts will not be used).

My disappointment stems from a setup that wicks than drips--in the regular Aerogarden, the system drips, some settings have a 7 hour drying out period to give roots some time to get air. A wicking setup does not get the period to air out.

This unit appears to resemble a raft / floating hydroponic system--where the plugs wick the nutrient water from the bottom; the floating system always keep the water toucheable from the bottom to wick.

Apparently, the only key part of the Aerogarden used is the automatic lightening and plastic shell as a custom-fit bucket. Otherwise, you probably can let this float in a bucket of similar size and find similar lighting.

I am highly confident that this will work well; however, I would proabably prefer to let my Aerogarden keep working on producing herbs, and find a bucket to let this float in.

Like a raft systems, the underside of strofoam grows funky stuff. Cleaning can sometimes scratch and tear if not gentle or careful. I assume similar care will be needed here.

The concept appears to be sound. I am writing this review to let anyone know what to expect on what they are getting when they order this product--a fancy shaped piece of dense styrofoam, good-fair instructions on use, and nutriet tablets.

Works well, not as fancy as i had hoped, but still good
I had previously purchased the master gardener kit for my aerogarden with the intention to start my garden herbs and veggies indoors and to later transplant them outside. The drawbacks this design were that I could only start 7 plants at a time, and all of the refill components are proprietary. :(
Then I discovered this starter tray - which solves the "7 at a time" problem. You can conceivably start 70 plants at once, though it would be better to stagger the starts to give them more room to grow. It is still a proprietary refill however. The plugs that fill the 70 holes are made of the same material as "perfect starts", which is a spongy brown peat-like material which holds water for a long time. And of course the nutrients are only from Aerogarden as well. You can find some alternatives from Hydroponic stores, which would be much cheaper.

The only part of this kit that surprised me was that it is simply a big molded piece of styrofoam that floats in your aerogarden. It has the 70 holes and plugs ready to seed and the nutrients... but that is it! I don't really know what else I was expecting, perhaps a plastic top similar to the top with the 7 holes, or something with a pump...

So altogether, it works well- you can start lots of seeds for your outdoor garden, and it is very easy to get good results. The only reason it gets 4 stars out of 5 is that the refill plugs are proprietary and come from aerogarden only.

It's ok
The product does what it says.. grows stuff. And the plants I started in it transplanted well. But they didn't say the pods smell like cow poo. There is no water circulation, so you have cow poo pods sitting in still water. They smell bad, and changing the water every day or so is a pain. I won't use this again unless they have a way to have water circulating or make pods that don't smell.