AeroGarden 507140-0000 AD manual Tray Layout, Seeding Log

Seeding Your Garden Starter Tray

Once you have decided which seeds to plant and when to start them, the next step is to decide where in the Tray to plant seeds, how many seeds to plant in each Grow Sponge and how deep to plant seeds. We recommend using a Blank Tray Layout (pages 21-22)and/or Seeding Log (page 23) to keep track of your choices and create a Seeding Plan. (Additional blank Tray Lay- outs and Seeding Logs available at www.aerogardensupport.com.)

Tray Layout

The Grow Sponges are all the same size and receive the same amount of light, warmth and moisture. Following are a few guidelines that will help you decide where to plant each seed type. Use a blank Tray Layout (pages 21-22 of this Guide, or online

at www.aerogardensupport.com) to work out and record your Seeding Plan (sample shown below).

•Use the outer Grow Sponges for seedlings with large, spreading leaves (such as beans, cucumbers and okra) to prevent them from shading other seed- lings in your Tray.

•For a staggered seeding of plants with the same planting out date (e.g., all frost tolerant plants or all non-frost tolerant plants) use the inner Grow

Sponges for the slow growing seeds (which get seeded first) and the outer Grow Sponges for the fast growing seeds. This allows you to plant the fast growing seeds without reaching over and potentially damaging the seedlings that are already growing.

•For a staggered planting of seeds with different planting out dates (such as the lettuce, beet, scallion, chard, tomato, pepper and cucumber example on bottom of page 5 of this Guide), consider using every other Grow Sponge for the planting of frost tolerant plants. Again, this will ensure that leaves from the larger non-frost tolerant seedlings get enough light.

Seeding Plan (AeroGarden 6 and all 7-Pod AeroGarden models)

lettuce1	tomato7	scallions	19	scallions	peppers31	scallions	37	scallions	49	lettuce55
		13		25		34		43
		scallions	beets	scallions		scallions	chard		chard
lettuce2	tomato8		tomato20		32		tomato38	scallions cucumber		lettuce56
		14		26		35		44	50
		scallions		scallions	beets			scallions
lettuce3	tomato9		21				39		51	lettuce57
		15		27				45
		scallions	beets	scallions			chard		chard
lettuce4	tomato10		tomato22				tomato40	scallions cucumber		lettuce58
		16		28		scallions		46	52
lettuce5	tomato11	scallions	23	scallions	peppers33		41	scallions	53	lettuce59
		17		29		36		47
		scallions	beets	scallions			chard		chard
lettuce6	tomato12		tomato24				tomato42	scallions cucumber		lettuce60
		18		30				48	54

cucumber
61
cucumber
62
cucumber
Seeding Log
63
cucumber	lettuce
1
2 64	lettuce
cucumber	lettuce
3
4 65	lettuce
cucumber	lettuce
5
6 66	lettuce
7	tomato

Sample Seeding Plan for frost tolerant and non-frost tolerant plants from Example 2 on page 5.

Blank Tray Layouts and Seeding Logs found on pages 21-24 of this Guide and also available at www.aerogardensupport.com.

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