{"id":531,"date":"2021-04-01T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2021-04-01T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T23:07:15","slug":"i-bought-the-worlds-smallest-aerogarden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"I bought the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s smallest Aerogarden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a winter of snow, melt, more snow, more melt, more snow, I was about climbing the walls wanting to grow something. Anything. Not a succulent. (I have one. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re nice, but not especially Good Eats.) <br><br>I got a Sprout-model Aerogarden. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done hydroponics before, but never inside, so I figured it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be an inexpensive test of the system and how it all works. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been fairly smooth so far. I received it a little over a week ago, and as of yesterday, I have both basil and dill sprouts up. The parsley is supposed to take longer, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see when it comes up. I was not expecting the dill so soon, given the dates given in the planting guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"528\" class=\"wp-image-528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3276-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Aerogarden as of yesterday: one tiny dill sprout, two tiny basil sprouts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only minor hiccup was a quick brush with gray fuzz in the dill pod that looked like some sort of fungus. The folks over at Aerogarden assured me that that was beneficial fungus, and so far it seems to be. The dill looks happy and healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"529\" class=\"wp-image-529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_3281-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Aerogarden as of today: two very aggressive dill sprouts and two basil sprouts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m amazed at how fast the dill is growing. I could literally stand there and watch it grow. Nature is incredible.<br><br>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure there will be more posts about how the Aerogarden works and how my yields are as things continue, so stick around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a winter of snow, melt, more snow, more melt, more snow, I was about climbing the walls wanting to grow something. Anything. Not a succulent. (I have one. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re nice, but not especially Good Eats.) I got a Sprout-model Aerogarden. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done hydroponics before, but never inside, so I figured it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be an inexpensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[251,228,252,177],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","tag-aerogarden","tag-garden","tag-herbs","tag-hydroponics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-8z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}