That brought us to the easiest garden to set up, by Click and Grow. The Smart Garden 9 truly lived up to its name. The soil pods for basil, mini tomatoes, and lettuce each came with seeds already planted, nutrients built in (no fussy bottles, as in the Miracle-Gro and Edn systems), and QR codes on the top of the container that the app reads to automatically set the appropriate light cycle for your plants. You pop the pods into the slots in the garden, cover them with plastic domes until the seedlings sprout, and pour water into the enclosed tank until a bobber rises to the surface of the tank (indicating that it’s full), and you’re done. The tall archway of grow lights over the garden is not movable, but it doesn’t need to be adjusted as plants grow. Seedlings appeared quickly and grew to full size in weeks, and the process was mostly hands-off. The system didn’t require as much watering as other gardens in the lineup, possibly because the water tank was fully enclosed. The warm glow of the lights was pleasant, and the garden, although tall, sat flush against the wall on our counter.
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