LED Day 15

So loving my AeroGarden! Look what I have today!

This is my cucamelon plant. For those of you new to my blog it is a mini cucumber. Looking good! So I decided this plant needed a little support! It is a vine plant so eventually I will need a lot of climbing room...I have big plans for that!

 This is the plant support that AeroGarden sells. I hate it. In theory it is nice but what I received is this flexible wire covered in foam. I think the foam is great; and will protect the plant. But the support should have been solid not flexible. I had to build it myself. So it is a lot shorter than in should be and doesn't look very nice. My strawberries, as expected, are slow growing. They will need a lot more time. Some have not yet sprouted.

Here are my two lettuce plants. Looking yummy!

One of them is much bigger than the other plant. Looks like it just had more seeds. The second one is getting very big so I pulled the biggest leaf since it was blocking the lights from the smaller leafs. And it was yummy :)

LED Day 10

I lost power last night so my garden reset. I am not sure why it reset since I was told that it saves information whenever power is lost. It did ask me if I had a power loss or if I started a new garden. I selected that I had lost power but it still reset my days and nutrient cycle. I also had to change the time; it was about 5 hours behind which is how long I lost power. It was a cold 5 hours... it was a blizzard and around 20 degrees before windchill.
Resetting the time was easy. Thankfully I had already talked to AeroGarden before and knew how to reset a few things. So I reset the days planted. I planted the garden on the 11th and so today is day 10. My garden does not allow me to reset the days left on nutrient cycle so its at 14.... so what I decided to do was add half a dose of food and then it would be fine for the next 14 day.
Wednesday I talked to AeroGarden about changing my pump cycle... well Thursday morning I found my leaves on the cucamelons were drying out. So I changed it back in case that was the problem. Once my plants are established I will change it back to 2 minutes on 58 off because I like that more than on one hour off 11.
Here are today's photos. Enjoy

Frustrated with AeroGarden customer service

I have always heard great things about the AeroGarden customer service. But I really have not had good service. I called today for 3 things and the call including wait time was about 10 minutes long. I spent longer waiting for them to answer than the call itself. That is not a big deal. What I was disappointed with was that the lady was rushing to get me off the phone.
My first question was about my Mom's garden. I didn't know how to get rid of the add nutrients light. Its a simple answer. Push and hold the light/reset button and when the nutrient light starts to blink let go then push it again. The light stops blinking. Easy
Then I wanted to know about the half hour I am gaining every day in my AeroGarden LED. I had to go into custom settings and set my pump to turn on 2 minutes every hour. This setting is way better than the factory one I got of turning on one hour every 12. My plants will get way better water flow this way.
My third question was about maintenance supplies. I just wanted to get an idea of what maintenance costs would be so I could budget properly.  There are filters to replace and an air stone which the book tells me to replace with every planting. She said no; that I can wash them and don't have to replace them until the filter becomes damaged or the air stone no longer pumps air through it. Which is good for me financially. I just have to replace the light on my Mom's garden every six months.
It just would have been nice to not have been rushed through the call.

LED Garden Day 8

First of all here is a photo of my salad greens. Then I pulled them out to look at the root system  Wow!

Now look at my cucamelons. Remember these are non GMO! I can see the first true leaf appear! I am so exited!

 Now here is a photo of my garden over the summer. This is a mini cucumber starting to grow!. The leafs get about 3 to 4 inches big. They are a vine plant so I am going to have to get some support going for this one soon.

Now finally my white strawberries are getting big enough to take a photo.  You might have to zoom in on this one. But right there in the middle of the sponge is a bit of green.

Bee Garden Day 18

I went to my Mom's house and saw her garden and took off a leaf and ate it right in front of her. She said no you have to wash it first. Not these Mom! There is no dirt or pesticides to wash off. Its ready to eat!

Something you will notice is that I will always take a photo with my hand for comparison. Its not like I think my hand are anything special (although my nail-polish is sometimes) but I rather have a photo of my hands than a ruler!

LED garden day 6

Really enjoying my AeroGarden. Remember you can get your here aerogarden.com and they are running a BOGO sale right now. Its amazing that just a week ago I planted my garden. Technically right now we have switched over to day 7 because I planted my garden exactly 7 days ago. But I am still calling it day six because. Here are my fun fun plants coming up. My white strawberry seeds have just started to sprout so I will be posting a photo soon.

This is my cucamelon plant. See other posts for photo of what this will be.

This is my salad greens coming up. Just 6 days and look at the size of both of these seedlings!

LED Day 3

Here are 3 photos of my baby lettuce plants. Taken about 12 hours apart... they sure are growing fast!