Half-price Aerogarden, today only!

Fresh herbs are an essential ingredient of my cooking, which makes me lucky to have an herb garden of my own. Even here in theOtherCity, where my tenure is anything but permanent, I someoneElse replanted the front swath of an overgrown strawberry bed with herbs. More telling, as the moving van was being loaded,  I someoneElse dug up my favorite dwarf sweet bay tree, which I could not bear to abandon and brought it along in a pot. Then someoneElse I bought another one. (hi, my name is kitchenMage and I am an herbaholic...)

Sadly, not everyone is fortunate enough to have the space or sunlight for any sort of outdoor herb gardening, and the indoor herb growing methods have been limited and expensive. This has left apartment dwellers at the mercy of the market. The one with the five buck clamshells of suboptimal herbs.

One of the cooler options for indoor herb gardening is the Aerogarden - a self-contained system comprised of a  "pre-seeded bio-dome grow pod" (marketing gets points for the line - it sounds like it might grow pod people, fresh, crunchy, pod people...), grow lights, and other accoutrement. They promise a harvest in 28 days and even show one with bright red tomatoes growing in it. The big downside is that it is expensive, about $200, which is a steep price for all but the most dedicated herbaholics. (Meaning that if I lived in an apartment, I would be on the phone negotiating a bulk deal. But I can quit any time. Really.)

Well, if you have been wanting an Aerogarden, today is your lucky day. How does half-price sound? If it sounds good to you, get over to Amazon posthaste and grab one on sale for only $99 - the cost of ~20 of those clamshells of sad-looking herbs from the store. Hurry on over, though, the deal is good today only.

Comments

[Gina]

THANKS SO MUCH! I have wanted one of these forever, but could not think of buying one for $200! I always said if it got down to $100, I'd consider it. So I placed my Amazon order as soon as I read your post. I never would have known about the sale otherwise.

Thanks again!!

[stefaneener]

Since converting my front yard to edibles I've been enjoying the clip, then cook approach. Now to get the real garden functional again. Enjoy the nice weather, no matter how impermanently.

[kitchenmage]

Gina, I am so glad you got one! That makes putting this up worthwhile. I knew there was someone who would want one. But no setting fire to this like that stove!

stefaneener (great name, I had to go back and work it out), Edible yards are absolutely the way to go. btw, that puff pastry fruit thing you made recently looks yummy. I'm craving summer fruit!

[Louise]

After several interesting attempts at baking your Honey wheatberry bread recipe (all of them delicious but not very pretty), I have finally perfected a blue ribbon loaf. Making sure that all the cool ingredients are at room temperature makes a big difference in the lightness and texture of the bread, I also found that chopping the wheatberries after they've cooled, makes for better distribution throughout the bread. I start by mixing the dough in my bread machine, following the machines instructions for adding wet and dry ingredients, once the ingredients have been mixed together to make a dough ball I add the extra one cup of flour(half bread and half whole wheat flour - that is to be used in the first hand kneading if making with by hand or with a mixer) a 1/4 cup at a time, this keeps the dough from being extremely sticky and unmanageable. I think anyone who likes a light wholewheat bread would like this bread recipe. Makes wonderful cold and hot sandwiches(paninis), french toast, peanut butter and jelly, and just plain toast, it is just delicious.

[Elliana]

Wonderful offer... also it's the kind of aerogarden I'm searching for my home.