Every summer I try to grow herbs and lettuce in my vegetable garden and they are always destroyed by squirrels and birds within a week or two of planting. This year I decided to try out an indoor growing station and I am blown away by the results.
The Click & Grow Smart Garden 9 is supremely easy to use and a mess-free way to grow herbs and salad greens indoors. It grows delicious cherry tomatoes, too! I’ve tested it over the last 4 months and it is so low-maintenance it feels illegal. (Smart Garden 9 is also on sale on Amazon for Black Friday!)
In my raised bed vegetable garden, I am constantly battling insect and animal pests and struggling with irrigation systems to keep things going while I am out of town. Not to mention spending lots of money on my water bill through the extremely hot summers we have had lately. But using this indoor growing system is so much more relaxing than my raised bed veggie garden. I just fill up the water reservoir every week or so, and it takes care of itself.
Features of the Smart Garden 9
The Smart Garden 9 from Click & Grow has been a game changer for me. I always want to grow a countertop herb garden or grow lettuce on my kitchen windowsill but I just don’t have the space in my kitchen. My kitchen also doesn’t get enough light throughout the day. This growing system has its own built-in grow light so it can be placed anywhere in your house. The lights are on a timer, too, and shut off automatically after 16 hours every day.
I also love how easy it is to set up and grow delicious produce. The initial set up took me about 10 minutes – and that included reading the instructions and deciding which plants I wanted to grow first. Planting tomatoes, lettuce greens, herbs and flowers with this system is as easy as putting a coffee pod into a capsule coffee machine. Open the pre-seeded plant pods, pop them into the reusable grow cups, and click them into place in the Smart Garden. Extremely easy and completely mess free. This is a great product for complete beginners or garden experts looking for an easy, automated growing system.
The Smart Garden 9 is also extremely attractive. It’s sleek, simple design fits seamlessly into any home and it comes in three colors. The clean lines accentuate the beautiful produce it grows and my friends who are plant fanatics have all commented on how cool it looks!
Watering your plants in this growing station is quick and easy, too. The reservoir holds a generous amount of water which is wicked up through the bottom of the pods and directly into the soil. The water reservoir has a convenient water level indicator, so there is no guesswork necessary. I loved that I was able to go out of town for two weeks this summer and my produce kept growing without any care or maintenance required.
Click & Grow has more than 75 different pre-seeded pods for herbs, fruits, salads, and flowers, so there really is something for everyone! Each soil pod also contains all the nutrients your plants need so they grow healthy.
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My Growing Experience
I have really enjoyed growing with the Click & Grow Smart Garden 9 for the last 4 months. I grew basil, green lettuce, dwarf tomato plants, and marjoram. The lettuce grew very quickly and made great salads this summer, and the basil has added great flavor to the Italian dishes I love to make.
I was most excited about growing the cherry tomatoes. I was very curious to see if this system would work the way it was advertised by Click & Grow. I actually set up an experiment to test it! Once the tomatoes sprouted, I took the thinned seedlings and replanted them in traditional pots with a vegetable potting soil and grew them under my normal grow lights.
The Smart Garden 9-grown tomato plants grew much bigger, fruited much faster, and are sturdy, healthy plants. The seedlings I transferred to regular pots are small and about 2 months behind in terms of fruit production. I am very impressed at how much better the tomatoes grew in the Smart Garden system!
The only thing that I didn’t have success with was the marjoram. It sprouted fine, but hasn’t grown much after that. I have never grown marjoram before, but I expected it to do better than it has. I think that the full-grown basil and tomato plants have blocked the light before it can reach the marjoram and that has stunted its growth.
Overall, using the Click & Grow Smart Garden 9 has been a really fun, easy, and delicious project. I am excited to buy some more pods and test out how it grows flowers and other herbs! I highly recommend this growing system for beginners and experts alike.
