AeroGarden Official Blog

We have added a Boulder class!!   See details below.

AeroGrow is announcing September 1st as National Indoor Gardening Day to celebrate the transition between the summer, outdoor gardening season and the winter, indoor gardening season. AeroGrow is co-sponsoring this day with the National Gardening Association. The day involves offering free 1 hour classes in 5 cities across the U.S. about how to both bring your outdoor garden indoors, how to continue growing fresh produce indoors, and how to start your outdoor garden indoors in the spring. Classes are taught by experienced AeroGrow employees who know a thing or two about indoor gardening. And, we are going to be giving away 3 AeroGardens at each class – including our new, full-sized VeggiePro.

Class locations and details are as follows:
City     Location     Time
Anchorage, AK     Consortium Library     6:00p - 7:00p
Burlington, VT     Gardener’s Supply Company     6:30p - 7:30p
Chicago, IL     Chicago Center for Green Technology     6:00p - 7:00p
Denver, CO     Denver Botanic Gardens     6:30p - 7:30p
Philadelphia, PA     Bartram’s Garden     5:30p - 6:30p
Boulder, CO     AeroGrow International, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters     12:00p - 1:00p

All classes are offered on Tuesday, September 1st 2009 and are FREE. No pre-registration is required.

If you cannot attend any of these classes, a video of the class will be made available on September 2nd at www.aerogrow.com.

For more information contact:
Sara Sisenwein
Marketing Manager
AeroGrow International, Inc.
sara@aerogrow.com
(303) 953-6227

We are announcing that September 1st has become the official National Indoor Gardening Day.  We developed the day to celebrate the transition between the summer, outdoor gardening season and the winter, indoor gardening season.  We are co-sponsoring this day with the National Gardening Association.

The day involves offering free 1 hour classes in 5 cities across the U.S. about how to both bring your outdoor garden indoors, how to continue growing fresh produce indoors, and how to start your outdoor garden indoors in the spring.  Classes are taught by our experienced employees who know and thing or two about indoor gardening.  And, we are going to be giving away 3 AeroGardens at each class - including our new VeggiePro which is our new product designed to grow full-sized vegetables.

Class locations and details are as follows:
City                                  Location                                                                 Time
Anchorage, AK          Consortium Library                                           6p-7p
Burlington, VT            Gardener’s Supply Company                         630p-730p
Chicago, IL                   Chicago Center for Green Technology      6p-7p
Denver, CO                   Denver Botanic Gardens                                 630p-730p
Philadelphia, PA        Bartram’s Garden                                               530p-630p

All classes are offered on Tuesday, September 1st 2009 and are FREE.  No pre-registration is required.

If you cannot attend any of these classes, a video of the class will be made available on September 2nd at www.aerogrow.com.

For more information shoot me an e-mail
sara@aerogrow.com

AeroGarden on Big Brother 11

It was just announced that Big Brother 11 will return this summer to CBS.  CBS has been releasing pictures of the house, one of which includes the AeroGarden and its prominent display in the kitchen.  Check it out…

Keeping with the theme of “Going Green,” this season the residents of the Big Brother house will have an AeroGarden to enjoy. The 7-Pod AeroGarden is prominently displayed in the kitchen, which also includes other environmentally friendly items such as compost machines and recycling bins. The housemates will be able to include fresh herbs in their cooking while they are confined inside the house for the duration of the season for the first time.

Another Growing Mom winner sent us a picture of her growing herb garden.  Below is the winning submission and picture.  We hope all you Mom’s and Dad’s that won AeroGardens are enjoying them.

Hi Aero Gardeners,
What a lovely idea to gift the moms!  I hope my mother can be one of the recipients.  My mom, Frankie is 94 1/2 years old and she lives with my 95 year old Dad in an Assisted Living facility here in Santa Fe, NM.  They are both remarkable people, full of sparkle and joie de vivre.  If you met my mom you would never guess her age!  The sad thing is that my mother grew up on a farm in Connecticut and growing things is in her blood.  My parents have always lived in homes with gardens into which she could pour her love and skills, until last year when on April 7th
2008 my Dad fell and broke his hip.  Amazingly, he recovered, but slowly, and is now wheelchair bound.  That forced the unhappy move to Assisted Living, where there is no place to garden.  Sure, we can bring my Mom cut flowers, or a potted plant, but it is just not the same as her getting to grow her own garden from scratch.  As an avid AeroGrow fan, I know this would be the perfect solution.  She would have the joy of seeing flowers grow from seeds, or vegetables, or herbs, and with only the most minimal of demands, she could garden again.  The aerogarden is perfect for the physical and mental limitations of a 94 1/2 year old gardener because it is so fool proof.  Lights go on and tell you just what to do when.  And it will take up only a tiny bit of space in her small room.  I hope you will consider my mom as a person who would really love and appreciate her own aerogarden.  Please feel free to contact me if there is anything else you would like to know.  I am attaching a picture of my Mom and Dad on their 65th anniversary so that you can see for yourselves how delightful they are.
Thank you for your consideration,
Michele Hermann Santa Fe, NM

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Tip of the week:  Pruning Tomatoes That Have Grown Up Into the Lights

When tomatoes are grown outdoors, there is usually no need to prune them, and so it may be an unfamiliar process to many gardeners. Tomatoes grown in the AeroGarden, however, must be pruned regularly to keep them small and compact. It may be helpful to think of “bonsai”, the Japanese art of pruning to shape plants into robust miniatures.

It is entirely possible to reclaim tall, leggy tomatoes, but they will take a bit longer to produce fruit than if pruned enough when small.