Aerogarden: Vol 1
Jan. 29th, 2021 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI ordered an aerogarden (sprout model in white) and received and set it up on Wednesday. I've started genovese basil, sage, and dill, because these were the herbs me and my mother settled on as tasty and were cat safe.I really wanted herbs like oregano, tarragon, chives, etc., but apparently none of these are cat-safe, and being with my mother for the pandemic has put me with a cat that really, really likes to eat houseplants. She's bitten into my nerve plant (which still thrives despite this), eaten most of my maidenhair fern (which is still alive, but barely), and has taken a chomp out of my orchid (though only one -- apparently not tasty like the others). I'm hoping, maybe, these herbs will be too strongly-flavored for her to eat much, but at least with an aerogarden it has its own light so I don't have to worry about where I put it as long as it's out of the way of the cat. With the houseplants, finding something out of the way while still getting enough sun was a challenge.
The light the aerogarden has and the little sound the pump makes are nice, at least. It's only the third day but I'm getting impatient -- someone else looked like their basil was already sprouting after just four days! I've been looking up a lot of information on how to grow herbs and how long they last, because I've never been very successful at growing them and what success I've had has always been outside so the limiting factor was always winter. Apparently switching to growing inside with no winter does not make your herbs functionally immortal, and most of them start to taste bad after some months when they've decided to bolt. The sage might last a couple years, though. I am already thinking of what else I'd like to grow, especially if the pandemic lessens enough for me to move out in the summer. I might want to replace the dill with some kind of lettuce. Apparently tatsoi is kind of spinach-like, so that would be good. Or maybe chamomile? There's also the possibility that I'll just want more basil, I think, though for one person, one plant might be enough if it gets going. It supposedly grows like a weed...
The light the aerogarden has and the little sound the pump makes are nice, at least. It's only the third day but I'm getting impatient -- someone else looked like their basil was already sprouting after just four days! I've been looking up a lot of information on how to grow herbs and how long they last, because I've never been very successful at growing them and what success I've had has always been outside so the limiting factor was always winter. Apparently switching to growing inside with no winter does not make your herbs functionally immortal, and most of them start to taste bad after some months when they've decided to bolt. The sage might last a couple years, though. I am already thinking of what else I'd like to grow, especially if the pandemic lessens enough for me to move out in the summer. I might want to replace the dill with some kind of lettuce. Apparently tatsoi is kind of spinach-like, so that would be good. Or maybe chamomile? There's also the possibility that I'll just want more basil, I think, though for one person, one plant might be enough if it gets going. It supposedly grows like a weed...
