Customer Reviews:
 So far so good ..My plant is still alive and beautiful!!! October 9, 2007
Well I am not one to have a green thumb. But I am in possession of a very important plant that I didn't want to chance losing. So I did some research and found my solution... my frog.. He's great so far he's been very reliable. My plant still looks beautiful. He also adds a cute decorative touch. It was a good investment.
 Irritating and misleading, but there is a use for it September 25, 2007
This little device lives up to every stereotype you may have about as-seen-on-TV consumer items. It might have been a good idea, but:
1) the prongs are too short to reach the area where the roots need the water
2) its chirp (activated when the top inch or so of soil get too dry) is not merely annoying but aggravating.
3) If you remove it from the pot, it thinks it's in dry soil, and chirps uncontrollably. (Not really uncontrollably. If you put it in a dark place, it thinks it's night and shuts up. But it took me a while to figure this out.)
For about 19 bucks I got a real moisture meter with a probe a foot long that gives a nuanced reading, since some plants need more water than others. The frogs are now in a dark bag somewhere waiting for their real calling -- as practical jokes. When there is someone I want to drive batty, I will hide one of these where it will get just enough light to chirp -- behind a windowshade, perhaps. The chirps are intermittent, thus hard to locate. As a sort of timer, one could wrap the prongs with a damp paper towel. When the towel dries, long after you have departed, the chirping, the maddening chirping, will begin. (Evil chortle.)
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