Half-price Aerogarden, today only!

Fresh herbs are an essential ingredient of my cooking, which makes me lucky to have an herb garden of my own. Even here in theOtherCity, where my tenure is anything but permanent, I someoneElse replanted the front swath of an overgrown strawberry bed with herbs. More telling, as the moving van was being loaded,  I someoneElse dug up my favorite dwarf sweet bay tree, which I could not bear to abandon and brought it along in a pot. Then someoneElse I bought another one. (hi, my name is kitchenMage and I am an herbaholic...)

Sadly, not everyone is fortunate enough to have the space or sunlight for any sort of outdoor herb gardening, and the indoor herb growing methods have been limited and expensive. This has left apartment dwellers at the mercy of the market. The one with the five buck clamshells of suboptimal herbs.

One of the cooler options for indoor herb gardening is the Aerogarden - a self-contained system comprised of a  "pre-seeded bio-dome grow pod" (marketing gets points for the line - it sounds like it might grow pod people, fresh, crunchy, pod people...), grow lights, and other accoutrement. They promise a harvest in 28 days and even show one with bright red tomatoes growing in it. The big downside is that it is expensive, about $200, which is a steep price for all but the most dedicated herbaholics. (Meaning that if I lived in an apartment, I would be on the phone negotiating a bulk deal. But I can quit any time. Really.)

Well, if you have been wanting an Aerogarden, today is your lucky day. How does half-price sound? If it sounds good to you, get over to Amazon posthaste and grab one on sale for only $99 - the cost of ~20 of those clamshells of sad-looking herbs from the store. Hurry on over, though, the deal is good today only.