AeroGarden, a Pandemic-Era Phenomenon, Is No More. What Happens Next?

If you're unconcerned astir the company's demise and are capable to get an AeroGarden cheaply, don't expect to get immoderate lawsuit enactment past that 90 days.

In my experience, AeroGardens are beauteous modular. Replacement parts are casual to find, and they’re casual to repair arsenic agelong arsenic the lights and the physics parts support moving and arsenic agelong arsenic you support your devices cleaned and well-maintained.

Of the 3 AeroGardens I owned, lone 1 inactive functions normally. A Bounty Elite exemplary I owned developed problems with its LED lighting, and since the instrumentality was retired of warranty, the institution told maine it couldn't repair oregon regenerate it. I haven't bothered to question retired a replacement portion on Ebay oregon different third-party seller sites.

A Harvest exemplary I antecedently owned that stopped operating was wrong its warranty play and was replaced by the company. I kept the older exemplary for spare parts. The replacement Harvest is inactive moving good aft 2 years.

If you're disquieted astir moving retired of effect pods and the company's proprietary nutrient liquid, don't be. The integrative effect pods tin beryllium reused (I person truthful galore of them successful my house, I'll ne'er tally out), and determination are a batch of online sellers offering compatible off-brand pods and the conical sponges that spell with them. You tin driblet immoderate off-the-shelf plot seeds into these pods, arsenic you tin with AeroGarden's Grow Anything kits.

For the liquid nutrient, you tin either banal up connected large containers of the works food, which contains 16 minerals, oregon use an alternative mix. Astute growers person figured retired and posted online astir what's successful the mix, but since hydroponic increasing is fashionable beyond the AeroGarden community, it's not hard to store for oregon find accusation connected how to marque your ain alternate nutrient mixes that volition enactment with immoderate types of seeds you're trying to grow.

As agelong arsenic your AeroGarden keeps working, you should beryllium capable to find supplies and parts to proceed increasing plants for years to come.

What Happens to the AeroGarden App?

The reply to that question is overmuch little clear. The institution updated its apps for iOS and Android this twelvemonth but lone says the app volition proceed moving “for an extended play of time” that is undetermined.

AeroGarden models that usage Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tin beryllium operated without the app, arsenic the institution describes successful its idiosyncratic manuals. If you're acrophobic astir AeroGarden disappearing from the web, it wouldn't wounded to prevention a transcript of the physics manual for your exemplary conscionable successful case.

What if I Want to Move connected From AeroGarden?

If you inactive would alternatively turn your plants wrong alternatively of transitioning to extracurricular gardening oregon different types of soil-based planting, determination are different hydroponic devices.

Click & Grow makes indoor planters comparable to AeroGarden's starting astatine astir $80 with its existent discounts. Ingarden makes a enactment of microgreen growers and nutrients that merchantability for $149. Modern Sprout and Gardyn are different options starting astatine $239 and $499, respectively, if you privation thing app-enabled and hydroponic.

AeroGarden mightiness beryllium going away, but don't fto that rob you of the joyousness of increasing your ain plants, whether you bash it with oregon without soil, indoors oregon outside, oregon adjacent (gasp!) without immoderate exertion astatine all.