inbloom Hydroponics Growing System, Upgrade Indoor Garden 3.0 with 5 Pods with More 20% Red Grow Light, Indoor Herb Garden 2.5L Water Tank Compact for Kitchen Home Windowsill Table, Green

I love being able to choose what to grow.

Absolutely love this smart garden. I have no experience with gardening and this kit/company provide you with step by step instructions with tips for best results. It’s also VERY QUIET. I had to check to make sure it was on when I first set it up based on how quiet the water filter is. I already have a little sproutling after 1 week of use and just ordered the larger version to expand my garden! It’s also appealing to look at and does not take up much room at all. 100% recommend and cannot wait for my bigger garden to arrive!

Super cute design and colour, but the water indicator is not working. Update: amazing customer service!! They provide me a replacement and made sure I’m happy with the solution.

I got the Inbloom 5 pod in green. I was searching for a smaller hydroponics unit that would fit on a shelf next to my sage colored Aerogarden one. This one was the right size and the green looked close to the sage color. I was thrilled when I got it, and it was the same color! In comparison the Aerogarden one it's not as easy to use but for the price it's a good machine. A few tips I learned. The first tip is when putting your seeds in the pods try to get them down the hole as far as you can. My black seeded simpson lettuce seeds weren't far enough in and when they sprouted the roots grew out. I tried pulling one out and pushing the root down in and it ended up dying. That maybe wasn't such a bad loss because it was the one in front of the water level meter so I can see the level easier. I also have Buttercrunch lettuce and a Aerogarden Basil in the other pods that are doing good. Tip two: Premix your water and plant food into a bottle and use that to fill your machine as the level gets lower. I was used to the Aerogarden and thought when it got low you would add the plant food directly into the machine. I ended up putting too much plant food in. Tip 3: make sure your plant's leaves aren't preventing the water gage from going up when filling with water. My lettuce leaf was holding it down and when the seed pods popped up I realized it was too high with water. Tip 4: it has two different light settings one is for vegetables and one for flowers make sure you have the right one on for what you're growing. It's a little hard to read the settings on the top because the writing is very small and faint. Tip 5: make sure your light isn't much higher than your plants. When you first start have it as low as it will go. Then as they grow keep raising it. This will prevent your plants from being stringy. Overall, I am very happy with my Inbloom unit. I think it's a good machine for an affordable price! It came extremely well packaged in this cool box. You might have to put the pump in place (I think mine wasn't and maybe the sponge wasn't in it, but it was pretty obvious where it was supposed to be). I like the covers to keep the light out on pods that aren't in use. The pod labels were kind of a pain to get on. I couldn't get the tabs to stick. But they stayed on even without the tabs tucked under. I didn't notice a difference in the pod moss quality from Aerogarden. They seemed to work just as good as long as you get the seeds down in there far enough and they are much cheaper. The light is a little hard to slide up and down. The plug in the back pulls out easily. The lights are much pinker in color than the Aerogarden but they seem to work just as well. Pretty soon I will be eating my lettuce. I've already harvested a few Basil leaves.

After just a week my little garden had little plants. It’s surprising how fast they grew and how easily it is to use….too easy maybe! You place the seeds in a little dirt pod and the machine does the rest. It automatically turns the growing light on and off on a set schedule. It can be very bright so don’t keep it in your bedroom or somewhere you sleep. I don’t like that I need to purchase new pods for the garden, I didn’t want to have to buy “parts”. I assume that’s the only thing other than seeds I will need to continue buying. The machine itself was surprisingly small. It is great for small spaces or as a starter garden to see if you like it. It’s good quality, functional and definitely worth the money. I planted cilantro and basil. Ideally you’d choose veggies that grow at a similar rate, because you move the lights up as they grow. You don’t want one to over shadow the other. Regardless they’re growing great and I’m excited about this garden. I would buy it again.