Customer Reviews

Toysmith Garden Root Viewer

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a simple, straight-forward activity that my son really enjoys. He received it for Christmas, planted it on the 26th and it sprouted 2 days later! It was wonderful for him to see results (for the radishes anyway) so quickly. (He is only 5 years old and may have lost interest if it took more than a couple of weeks to grow.) Now he is checking his "garden" daily for new sprouts and tending it all very nicely.
We did make sure to plant the seeds close to the periphery of each tube for easier viewing. So far so good. I am pleased with this item and am certain we will use it again and again when this "batch" is harvested.

Not sure if i didn't do this right...but we got no onions to sprout. The radishes roots grew very quickly - and then it was hard to thin out and we haven't actually seen a radish grow...just lots of roots. Same with the carrots...which came along just after the radish.

We really like it at first and It's great to view the roots, but we didn't see the vegetable like the picture shows...and bummer on the onions!

this is a good educational toy. Not very durable for youger children but probably good for children eight or older.

The onion seeds never sprouted, the carrots and radishes did sprout but after months of being in the little tubes, they never did grow any carrots or radishes under the soil. My 4 yr. old was disappointed and so was I. I did everything right. I finally gave up and dumped them out. Maybe the tubes are too skinny...I did give it two stars because he did get to see the tops grow, he loves to garden.

I have been using this product with my third grade classes. They love it. They are learning a lot about how a seed grows. The seeds grew in about a week. Very fast and great results. Perfect for any science classroom.

Although a great idea, this has turned out to be another plant growing toy that just doesn't do much. Each of the three plastic tubes are not larger enought to grow a plant of any significant size. You do see a reasonable amount of small roots thru the tubes, and get green plant growth above the tube, but's that about it. After MANY months, the carrot(s) and radish(es) never got larget than about 1/8" wide and the onions never sprouted after repeated tries. Followed all directions exactly as described.

The Garden root viewer was a great project for my 3 year old daughter but we were disappointed the carrot seeds never sprouted.