I have just finished up growing several months worth of lettuce. It's a great product for my town home, which is situated so that I have few south facing windows and many north-facing ones. (I also tried several rounds of pot-and-dirt lettuce and herbs this summer and managed to kill everything but the rosemary.)

I set the lights so that they are on in the evening, until about 11, so they double as my evening reading lights. And no, seed pods are not GMOs. They are standard seeds, the foam growing medium, and the plastic inserts for holding it all in the bowl.

Yes, it's a put on: I am not really on parole.

Are you putting us on or what? That's the part of this article that woke me up. I've been a devoted reader for a long time - you always seem to be interested in the same things I'm interested in, from Roombas to Macs to hydroponic garden contraptions. So, am I going to have to change my mental image of you, or are you just messing with us?

You can keep your dirty hippy weed farms. I want lab quality crank.

On second thought, never mind.

Oh my god, Please, PLEASE will you stop? I don't usually call poeple out directly but you are simply driving me up the wall. Just stop. It's been a long time. We all know what you have to say. You don't need to repeat it anymore.

We received one as a present last year. It was entertaining for about 4 or 5 weeks. We barely harvested anything despite scrupulously following the directions. The cilantro, as others have noted, was the worst. We did get a bit of basil, but nothing much else. The bulb stopped working and customer service promised to send another one, but we never received it. We cleaned it out and boxed it up and never used it again. Maybe it was our water was too hard? I didn't have any problem growing herbs in plastic pots and dirt this summer. Anyway, we're hoping to find it a good home soon.

A window and endless sunny days.

And for those people (myself included), this product is rather intriguing. I agree that it does seem a bit pricey, but I imagine there's also something unquantifiably satisfying about growing something at home, rather than buying it from the grocery store. Believe me, if I was lucky enough to have a sunny window ledge, planter box, or any other suitable conditions, I would happily grow things the old-fashioned way. Until then, I will continue to eye that Aerogarden, hoping maybe one will show up under the ol' Christmas tree....

However, putting something up your ass is pleasure common to all people regardless of gender and sexual preference.

Speak for yourself, dude. I did that once at the request of a boyfriend, and told him if he ever came near my ass again, he could kiss it goodbye, along with the rest of me.

Yet another useless gadget for bored rich people. I can't imagine anything sillier, given how easy it is to grow herbs. Hell, a tray on a window ledge that faces the sun will do the same job. Why in the world do people think these things have to be done with high-tech wankery?

And of course we have P. back with her endless yammering about how Salon never reports on the minutiae of marijuana and government. NO, YOU CAN'T FIND THAT OUT HERE. It's not a subject this site is interested in pursuing. PLEASE for the love of the GODS - GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD. There are other places on the web where you can get that info. Why do you insist on harping on and on about it here? Even those of us who are sympathetic to the issue have had it with you. Go wave the flag over at High Times, will you?

By growing them yourselves with seeds from a place like www.rareseeds.com (sells heirloom varieties). I mean.....seed packets or pods or whatever? There is enough frankenfood out there, I don't need to produce it on my counter.

I have been drooling over these for a while now... Cooks Illustrated reviewed them a while back... they said it wasn't worth the money unless you wanted very small amounts of herbs. But I think it would be fun to grow herbs in my kitchen in the winter. We are so far north that sunlight is a joke.

More quick calculations: running this contraption for a year will produce maybe 75 pounds of basil (megapesto, anyone?) and 700 pounds of carbon dioxide. I'm assuming the truth of manufacturer's claim of $300 worth of basil every six months (and assuming $8/lb for basil), and using the US average of 1.35 lbs per kilowatthour of electricity generated. If your local utility uses coal, you're looking at 1,050 lbs of CO2.

Judas Guttenberg mentioned some up above: 'In our surveillance society it's difficult to buy (or even use Google to research) equipment for the discreet growing of marijuana (aka ganja, the chronic, kind buds, santa claus, etc.).'

Over the past weekend I learned another word for high quality marijuana: 'The droll'. Since we Salonites like to be on top of our current slang, I thought I'd pass it on..

I've been wondering how well these things work.

I would love to grow herbs in my windowbox. Unfortunately, some moron of a mayor wanted to "green" our city by planting giant, light killing ficus all over my sidewalk, so I get nada sunlight. Oh how I hate that ficus.

I will now walk, not run, to the nearest Sur la Table, where I've been drooling over these things on a weekly basis. And it won't grow cilantro? What a bonus, considering I find that to be the nastiest herb ever to grace a dinner plate.

It's a plastic window box, sitting on the window ledge two floors above the corner 48th & 10th in Manhattan. In the middle of Hell's Kitchen I grew, parsley, rosemary and marjoram and have a feezer full of pesto, sofrito, and fresh frozen herbs.

What ever happened to dirt?

Gimme a freakin' break.