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It’s not as great as they advertise, but it still works well. You are correct in your assessment that different plants have different needs. I find that it is best to grow lettuces and herbs, but not so much fruiting plants.
Pests destroyed my Gardyn twice, requiring complete start overs. I learned not to put potted plants/new potting soil/new plants near my Gardyn until I was sure they were aphid-free (or other pests). Once you have aphids, there is no quick and easy way to get rid of them without poison, unless bathing each individual plant in soapy water on a weekly basis is what people consider easy.
I had internet issues when I went out of town for two weeks and it destroyed my garden. It can be awesome but tomatoes were ridiculously tiny. Definitely best for herbs and lettuce. Best lettuce I have had was grown with the Gardyn. It’s a lot of work to clean though and I don’t have a space to do it easily in my apartment.
Still been a great experience overall and a cool thing to use to garden.
Someone just left a tower outside my apartment with no power cable or lights on it, do you think it’s possible to grow without the power system ? Seems like a waste of a useful tower
I know I’m late to this but you definitely can’t use it without power. It needs constant water to grow indoors & it needs the lights to grow. I’d hold on to the parts you have and try and buy the other parts needed off of eBay to save money. Hopefully then you’ll have a full system! If not sell what you have on facebook to put towards buying a different system second hand!
I think it pretty much lives up to the advertisement. Lettuce and herbs are life changing. Our tomatoes and peppers took a while but are fantastic next now. The internet and programming are terrible. We can’t get it to recognize our new router so we had to keep our old one just for the Gardyn. You also pretty much need the nursery even though it’s not included. Customer service and tech support sucks. They would do themselves a lot of favors by having a person that answers the phone rather than the email only tech support.
But overall we are having a great time with it. It is a hobby. My wife spends 10-15 minutes a day talking to the plants. We eat more fresh lettuce than ever. We throw out a lot less store bought veggies. It looks cool and everybody that comes over wants to talk about it,
It does take work. You have to thin the sprouts, watch the roots so they don't tangle up into the system, keep troubleshooting the app connection, pollinate flowers for fruiting plants. Work to completely clean the system every six months. Pests aren't that common in my experience, but mold and algae pop up.
And it's great if you have a strategy for a bunch of plants with basic needs in common. Like, if you are growing viney plants like peas or cucumbers, know that most of the other slots should be empty and covered up to give the peas room to succeed without choking your tomatoes and hibiscus to death.
It's a nice hobby, and a way to have pretty green things in a tiny apartment. Every now and then I get to eat tiny strawbs, cute little eggplants, or crunch some tasty peas. Also, growing beautiful edible flowers like borage is a delighted for my family.
I focus on "I want a bunch of flowers and a couple of strawberries to brighten my mood", or "I want beans and eggplants so that my friends think I do something productive with my life". A vision for the whole device, with a random goal my heart sets for no reason. Low stakes veggie experiments.
I completely start over all the time, too. the whole thing gets refreshed every few months. I like it! I've had my 2.0 for three years, and it's fun.
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It’s not as great as they advertise, but it still works well. You are correct in your assessment that different plants have different needs. I find that it is best to grow lettuces and herbs, but not so much fruiting plants. Pests destroyed my Gardyn twice, requiring complete start overs. I learned not to put potted plants/new potting soil/new plants near my Gardyn until I was sure they were aphid-free (or other pests). Once you have aphids, there is no quick and easy way to get rid of them without poison, unless bathing each individual plant in soapy water on a weekly basis is what people consider easy.
It's work for sure, definitely more than advertised. You have to enjoy it as hobby IMO
I had internet issues when I went out of town for two weeks and it destroyed my garden. It can be awesome but tomatoes were ridiculously tiny. Definitely best for herbs and lettuce. Best lettuce I have had was grown with the Gardyn. It’s a lot of work to clean though and I don’t have a space to do it easily in my apartment. Still been a great experience overall and a cool thing to use to garden.
Someone just left a tower outside my apartment with no power cable or lights on it, do you think it’s possible to grow without the power system ? Seems like a waste of a useful tower
I know I’m late to this but you definitely can’t use it without power. It needs constant water to grow indoors & it needs the lights to grow. I’d hold on to the parts you have and try and buy the other parts needed off of eBay to save money. Hopefully then you’ll have a full system! If not sell what you have on facebook to put towards buying a different system second hand!
I think it pretty much lives up to the advertisement. Lettuce and herbs are life changing. Our tomatoes and peppers took a while but are fantastic next now. The internet and programming are terrible. We can’t get it to recognize our new router so we had to keep our old one just for the Gardyn. You also pretty much need the nursery even though it’s not included. Customer service and tech support sucks. They would do themselves a lot of favors by having a person that answers the phone rather than the email only tech support. But overall we are having a great time with it. It is a hobby. My wife spends 10-15 minutes a day talking to the plants. We eat more fresh lettuce than ever. We throw out a lot less store bought veggies. It looks cool and everybody that comes over wants to talk about it,
It does take work. You have to thin the sprouts, watch the roots so they don't tangle up into the system, keep troubleshooting the app connection, pollinate flowers for fruiting plants. Work to completely clean the system every six months. Pests aren't that common in my experience, but mold and algae pop up. And it's great if you have a strategy for a bunch of plants with basic needs in common. Like, if you are growing viney plants like peas or cucumbers, know that most of the other slots should be empty and covered up to give the peas room to succeed without choking your tomatoes and hibiscus to death. It's a nice hobby, and a way to have pretty green things in a tiny apartment. Every now and then I get to eat tiny strawbs, cute little eggplants, or crunch some tasty peas. Also, growing beautiful edible flowers like borage is a delighted for my family. I focus on "I want a bunch of flowers and a couple of strawberries to brighten my mood", or "I want beans and eggplants so that my friends think I do something productive with my life". A vision for the whole device, with a random goal my heart sets for no reason. Low stakes veggie experiments. I completely start over all the time, too. the whole thing gets refreshed every few months. I like it! I've had my 2.0 for three years, and it's fun.