Drain the water and rinse the tank out with fresh water.
Stir the mixture through your AeroGarden for at least 5 minutes with an air pump.Fill the water bowl with a mixture of water and either 6 cups of distilled white vinegar or 1/4 cups of chlorine bleach.If you are using your garden for the first time you can skip these steps and just do a rinse. This only applies to those who have used their AeroGarden for prior grows. Sanitizing Your AeroGarden for Basil Growth The following walkthrough will guide you through each step for prepping and planting the basil plant seeds. Planting and germinating herbs is easy with any AeroGarden system, like the Farm Family that can do 12 or 24 seed pods at one time. Basil Growing in AeroGarden Planting your Basil Seeds Pizza Herb Kit – Perfect for pizza fans, this kit includes 7 pre-seeded pods which will grow Genovese Basil, Chives, Oregano, and Thyme.įind various seed pod options for growing herbs on the AeroGarden website, including your ability to customize your own package of 6, 9, and more seed pods.AeroGarden Pesto Basil Seed Pod Kit – For true Italian food lovers, this kit includes 9 pre-seeded Genovese Basil Pods and all the liquid plant food required to grow them.Marseille, Purple, Thai, Lime and Globe. International Basil Seed Pod Kit – This kit includes 9 pods and all the liquid nutrients you require to grow them, each pod is a different variety of basil: Napolitano, Genovese, Lemon.Luckily, AeroGarden have made this easy with a variety of seed pod kits to pick from that contain a wide range of these varieties. Pick and Plant Basil Seeds – Seed Pod Kitsīasil comes in many varieties and one of the fun things of growing this herb is exploring the different flavors. So, after one month with my AeroGarden, I would recommend it to anyone who 1) likes cooking with fresh herbs, 2) would like to grow some of their own produce in winter months, 3) doesn’t have access to a suitable outdoor garden space, and/or 4) enjoys gardening and trying new things.6) AeroGarden Basil Final Thoughts 1. That being said, the mint, parsley, cilantro, and two basil plants are growing extremely well and I haven’t counted out the chives or dill yet. The leaves look healthy, but the stem has been weak from the start and is growing in a sort of flopped over state. The jury is still out on the dill as well. It was a delicious addition to my salad and the remaining chives are starting to make an appearance now. Later, when the basil was bigger and a couple more chives appeared, I noticed my mistake and cut back the extra basil plant. So, without thinking, I cut back the two spindly chive plants and let the bigger basil plant grow.
While choosing which plants to thin out, I failed to notice that a basil seed had snuck into the chives pod and had grown into a nice little plant faster than the chives were growing. The only other “oops” moment also came when I thinned the plants. On day 19, I thinned the plants to one per pod just two hours before the AeroGarden told me not to thin the plants. So far, only one growing tip came too late. The basil plants would be more than six inches tall if I hadn’t snipped off the top sets of leaves (and eaten them, of course). The cilantro, mint, and parsley are three to four inches tall, while the two basil plants (Thai and Genovese) are around five inches tall. So far, I have added nutrients three times and watered once, but I will have to start adding water more regularly as the plant’s roots are growing like crazy. The AeroGarden’s lighted display panel provides timely growing tips, like when to add nutrients and water, and how and when to prune plants. In fact, most of them are already at the size that I can harvest small amounts to add to meals. It’s been one month since setting up my AeroGarden indoor herb garden, and so far, so good!Īll seven of the seed pods sprouted within eight days of “planting” and almost all of them are rapidly growing into happy, healthy herbs.
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