Best Aeroponics System

Indoor gardening has advanced to a great level that it is now possible for the average gardening enthusiast to grow fresh herbs using the aeroponics system of indoor herb gardening.

With aeroponics it is easy to grow limitless number of herbs within your house no matter what the season. They are also easy to maintain with an average maintenance of 5 minutes a month and can be left unattended for about two weeks depending on the type of herb you grow.

Aeroponics system monitors itself to create ideal growing conditions for each plant and alerts you when it’s time to add more water and nutrients. No dirt or natural light is needed, so even low-light spaces are suitable.

Most aeroponics systems comes in the size of a bread box and measures about sixteen inches long and twenty one inches high. They are convenient to be placed in window sills and will fit conveniently under most kitchen cabinets.e setting, and 21 inches high at the highest level.

Another excellent reason for using the aerogarden for indoor gardening is they are a perfect gardening kit for the health conscious. It is scientifically proven that herbs grown using aeroponics system retain perfect plant nutrition with 85 macronutrients and micronutrients for optimal plant health.

Growing herbs indoors is easy with aeroponics system as all aerogardens are provided with simple instructions to follow and help your grow herbs indoors successfully. With aeroponics the growing process starts immediately, with germination occurring within 24 hours and a mature plant that is ready five times faster than if grown in soil.

The gardening kits contain pre-seeded planting pods. Each pod is basically a plastic cup shaped frame with two pieces of foam rubber inside the cup part, like two slices of bread with the seeds sandwiched between them.

To start growing your favorite herbs, simply insert the seeds placed in the pods into the seven holes in the top of the garden’s water tank. The hole plugs prevent evaporation of the water through the unoccupied holes.

The water tank holds exactly one gallon of regular drinking water. A pump in the tank takes water and pipes it to the rim of each of the seven holes in the tank’s top, and here the trickle of water flows into the foam sandwich of each seed pod. The foam stays moist and the rest of the water drips back down into the tank.

What makes the Aerogarden 7 pod the best best aeroponics system is the ‘computer’ that cycles the water flow on and off according to the amount recommended for the type of plant being grown. A water level sensor turns on a flashing red light when it is time to add more water to the tank.

The top of the garden is a reflector with two compact-fluorescent lamps, of the variety that has the special ultraviolet (UV) coating that causes the emmitted light to resemble sunlight.

The reflector rides on a vertical pole that extends up from the garden’s base, so you can raise and lower the lamps as required to keep them the correct distance above the plants. The garden’s ‘computer’ also turns the lamps on and off according to a schedule tailored to the type of plant.

If using the gardens in a place where the light might be a problem at night, you can syncronize the computer so that the lights are on only during the daytime and off when you are trying to sleep.

The seed kits come with little clear plastic cups that cover each pod until the seeds have germinated, then you can dispose of them. The kits also come with a bag of nutrient tablets, which you add to the water tank when the computer prompts you to by flashing a red light. The nutrients are tailored to the type of plant being grown, and there are enough of them to feed the plants during their anticipated life span.

Each seed pod has a label that tells you how many days to wait for plants to appear after germination. All of your plants will appeared like clockwork which makes the Aerogarden 7 the best aeroponics system you may have ever used.