AeroGarden Harvest 2.0, Indoor Garden Hydroponic System with LED Grow Light, Holds up to 6 AeroGarden Pods, Charcoal

I’ll preface by saying I’m a senior and a gadget guy. A year ago, I bought the Aerogarden Harvest (another gadget) on sale, but didn’t set it up for another 10 months. Why? Well, I sometimes buy things on sale, but really want them as a gift down the road for someone. Then, as a senior, I forgot about it until after Christmas. A few months later, I realized that the Aerogarden has a 12-month warranty, so I figured that I better get started with it. Unfortunately, the included pre-seeded herb pods looks like they were all opened, so I had no idea what I was really planting until they started to sprout and I did a lot of juggling their name stickers. The unit was brand new in its original packaging, but the seed pods were definitely tampered with. I’ll call this Harvest model the 1.0 to avoid confusion. Four of the six pods sprouted and I was happy with that. I could have contacted Aerogarden to get replacements, but I planned to get another Aerogarden, and I’d have more than enough things to plant, especially after I bought a lettuce greens pre-seeded pod kit.My wife saw what a fun time I was having with the Harvest 1.0, that she figured that she’d surprise me a 2.0 for Father’s Day. I had read about and watched review videos about the Harvest 2.0 being a dog of a system. I writing here to explain that in my limited experience, that’s not the case. One review mentioned the inconsistent grow light timing to the point that I thought it was going to be on a random schedule. That’s not what I experienced. There are instructions on how to set the 2.0 grow light and the two Harvests I own have the same exact 15-hour schedule down to the minute, but are set up differently from each other. My only fear about opening this present and making the return more difficult was that this person was correct and my light schedule would be based on random times. Nope, it works fine. I believe that this person may missed this point in the directions or received a defective unit. The same reviewer mentioned that his 2.0 unit did not come with clear grow covers for holding humidity and didn’t know if that was an error or if the unit wasn’t supposed to have the grow covers. The 2.0 doesn’t have the grow covers included.Several reviewers have also pointed out that the 2.0 only puts out 15w of light compared to the 20w of the 1.0. I’m not experienced enough with hydroponic gardens to know if this will be a significant Achilles heel going forward. It’s plenty bright and if I didn’t already own the 1.0, I wouldn’t even notice.The Harvest 2.0 doesn’t come with pre-seeded pods. It comes with six grow your own pods and a pack of Black Seeded Simpson lettuce. This setup has given me the experience setting up my own pods that I only used one pod for the included lettuce seeds, and used the other five to start growing my own select herbs and tomatoes. I plan to never purchase pre-seeded pods ago as this was so easy.A new user will probably want to simultaneously order either pre-seeded pods with herbs and/or vegetables to gain experience with growing something other than the included lettuce.I also noticed that the water pump is smaller than the 1.0 pump and has a correspondingly smaller sponge filter. I didn't notice the filter until the first cleaning because it's on the bottom of the removable pump rather than on the pump's side like the 1.0.I have no reservations about recommending the Harvest 2.0 as an introduction to hydroponics or to add to an experienced user’s collection.

I had high hopes for this garden and when I purchased it the price was right. I got it home and set it up. When I first plugged it in the light was on. I unplugged it and began following the instructions - I filled the water tank and added the food, and before I got to the part where I put the seed pods in the sponges, I decided to try to turn the light on. There is no light switch on my unit - I don't know if this is a defect, I don't know if the unit just didn't work - I have no idea. But I got on the Aerogarden website and there is no instruction for where the light switch is located other than "turn the switch on for 3 seconds" to reset the food indicator. I am so very disappointed in this item and can't even break it down fully to return - the light won't come off the post.

So I have never planted anything in my life or done gardening whatsoever. So I chose this because it looked very user-friendly and easy. And it absolutely is! If you don’t know anything about gardening, and you don’t know where to start. I think this is great for you! I followed the super easy instructions And I have stuff coming up! I have owned this for almost a month and this last picture is what it looks like now! Within a few days, I saw sprouts and it came with some lettuce seeds. .(which is on the very left side.) I couldn’t see anywhere in the products where I knew what seeds came in the kit. So I am telling you that it is lettuce! It has an automatic light, so it just turns itself on, and then turns itself off. So far I have done hardly any maintenance on it. It has a little red light at the very top to remind me when to fill it with more water and more plant food. And it comes with the plant food which is great! And so I know exactly when I need to put more of that in and more water. Other than that, I just leave it alone and enjoy watching it grow! The little amount of dopamine I get every single time I see it grow more is so exciting to me! So I’m very excited to keep using this and it makes me want to grow more things! I honestly can’t say that there’s anything wrong with it.

I've always wanted to try one of these so I finally did. Very simple to set up and I got it going in about 20 minutes. Soon, I had lettuce sprouting followed shortly by the dill and tomatoes. I never could get the cilantro to germinate, perhaps the seeds were old. The tomatoes flowered quickly and started setting fruit. I harvested enough lettuce for six (smallish) salads and over a dozen cherry tomatoes! The dull never did great, but I attributed that to it being overshadowed by the lettuce. Overall easy to set up and care fore. Cleaning out a "season" of growth was painless and made way for the next. I'd recommend this easily as a start into the hobby. If you like growing fresh veggies and herbs, you'll most likely outgrow this size unit and will want to upgrade. Try one, I think you'll enjoy it!

Had to discontinue gardening early last summer due to a fall which necessitated hip surgery. This little hydroponic garden has brought some of that joy back to me. Was disappointed when I set it up that the light didn't go on, however, an email to AeroGarden's customer service got a quick response with an answer to what I had missed in the set up and it was fixed. Planted 4 pods with the lettuce seeds that came with it and 2 with some chive seeds I had. Within 3 days tiny lettuce leaves were showing and are now (a week later) they are flourishing happily above the label. One of the chive plants is also peeking above the label now. Look forward to checking my little garden's progress every morning!

Love the product, the only thing was that when I received the item it was fitted with an American plug as they know it was being delivered to UK, but happy with the product.