How I grew my own food with smart hydroponics
How I grew my own food with smart hydroponics
Life gets wild with Gardyn, an indoor smart hydroponics system. Bridget Carey documents three months of using this vertical garden system to grow fresh produce for her family and the lessons she learned along the way.
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00:00 Grow BEAST plants with this easy smart garden
1:24 How does Gardyn work?
2:47 Chapter 1: How does your garden grow?
4:23 Chapter 2: I spy something growing
6:20 Chapter 3: A fresh feast
8:03 Chapter 4: Little chop of horrors
10:06 Chapter 5: The fungus among us
10:56 Chapter 6: The bitter end
Luckily I am living in a house with a garden outside, so we always plant organic greens for meals every day.
Great review! Thank you
such an interesting review/life story. thanks!
Nice and entertaining
This was the best review of the Gardyn I’ve seen. Thanks for being so real! I still want one but we’re going to attempt some DIY hydroponics first and see how we like it. Thank you for the video! Very helpful!
Great paid advertisement! You must be an idiot to spend money on this crap. You cane easily diy this or grow traditional way or buy your veggies cheaper in market
I do have a simple question.. given the fact you received a demo to review. Why would anyone buy this model? For say a starting price of $900 with a $30 month subscription, your ROI would never warrant the purchase. You would be losing money.
In comparison, take the Aerogarden Farm 24Xl, which is roughly the same cost. It’s a one time cost. You can plant anything from herbs to strawberries, basically anything that isn’t a root vegetable. The pods are reusable and you can use rock wool and your own seeds without having to buy from the manufacturer again and again.
This product doesn’t really offer any true value.
Thanks for all the little details that people seem to leave out in their reviews.
Fantastic review! Great job.
I love it but the cost of the unit has stopped me from purchasing it.
A great presentation: informative, witty, sardonic, self-effacing, attractive, well spoken and a mellifluous voice, plus 2 cute kids – an ideal combination! I could watch this group watching paint dry! (This is not a serious suggestion for a future program!)
Fun Guys
Great video!!!!!
Food grade hydrogen peroxide (3%), wiped onto the green fungus with a q-tip, would have gotten rid of it without killing the plants. Thanks for the video! So how often do you clean the insides of the tubes? I heard that you have to disassemble everything to clean the tubes, is that correct?
Excellent video!
Is rockwool good for health?
She’s pretty good at this review business, wow.
You can’t put the pods right in! They need to be first grown elsewhere until they sprout and then inserted into the Gardyn unit. This is a bummer for me. I don’t have to do that on my simple homemade garden system. $800 + $monthly gutted. No.
You could DIY this for like $50.
$800 LMAO … go to HomeDepot or Lowes and make your own
Very nice video, in some places even slightly funny, the green plants grown in the house are of real use.
What do you think of smart hydroponics? Are you ready to start growing your greens at home?
Sorry, but the math isn’t mathing. $800 plus tax + monthly fee. Why is it so expensive for a bucket, pvc pipes and led lights?
Hi Bridget/CNET—can you say more about how you sprouted the pods before putting them into the garden? I have the same trays from the container store that you do in the video. I’d rather use those than the “nursery” that gardyn is selling for $70. Did you just add water to the bottom of the tray and leave the pods alone till they sprouted? How much water? Did you also sprinkle water on the pods themselves? TIA
Brilliant!
Wow, I did not expect CNET to cover something like this. Fantastic video! Entertaining and informative without trying too hard to be entertaining!
You touched on my concerns with something like this.
You mentioned cleaning maintenances once a week.
But there’s other maintenance such as trimming roots and cleaning out mold (yuck! Fungus is the scariest part to me lol)
How many hours of combined maintenance would you say a week do you spend?
🤓Great real life review Thanks for the info and research
well this was informative but she is trying way too hard to BE funny instead of just being herself… and it’s annoying. 🙁
I like your video! Eat eat eat they grow back fast.
Put a bit of hydrogen peroxide in your water.
How adorable is that little girl!! Great video, thank you!
This is kind of tech that will help people live on the Moon and Mars…
Root Box Hydroponics uses the newest innovations in RDWC technology with the best parts. We have many different 2, 3 and 4 Row RDWC Systems, accommodating many grow size spaces. Fast plain box shipping. Systems can be found on Ebay Amazon & Etsy. Lets grow together!
You can build something better for about %70 cheaper. That company should be ashamed of themselves.
so, you only eat the green leafs?
How much e was your electric bill ?
You are very funny, smart, and informative. Much appreciated!
What a nice review, Bridget! I loved it! Best regards from someone who is interested in a low maintenance, automated, indoor gardening system
I have no intention of buying this product, but I watched this video from start to finish! Great job with your script and delivery!
This was the best Gardyn video I’ve seen! Thank you!
Is is organic or at least non gmo?
A very well made and full detailed video with a lot of cuteness added here and there.
I bought two iHarvest. One came and one did not. The one that did was missing pieces and the nutrients had bust open. Still don’t have the second one. Buy elsewhere!
AeroGarden has much better products for A LOT cheaper when on sale. Normal price for one about this size is $700 rounded. When on sale like today, it’s dropped to about $400.
How much are the blank pods?
I still believe in good old grow tent.
would be cool to grow a nice food/flower combo
THIS HOLE SYSTEM VALUE IS LESS THAN 50 BOX GUYS DONT BUY THIS TRASH, DIY
Phototron , 800$ ? 🤓 150 $ 👍 DYI
24 years in the biz and still
it amazes me how little people still
know and how funny most sound
when talking about any hydro tec.
Extremely annoying presentation
What an absolute great way to start just about anyone with hydroponics.