Seeding Your Garden Starter Tray
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.
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).
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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.
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.)
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lettuce
scallions
chard
chard
chard
chard
chard
chard
cucumber
cucumber
cucumber
cucumber
cucumber
cucumber
tomato
tomato
tomato
tomato
tomato
tomato
tomato
tomato
tomato
scallions
beets
beets
beets
beets
scallions
lettuce
scallions
cucumber
tomato
scallions
scallions
lettuce
scallions
scallions
scallions
lettuce
scallions
scallions
cucumber
tomato
scallions
scallions
lettuce
scallions
scallions
scallions
lettuce
lettuce
lettuce
lettuce
lettuce
lettuce
lettuce
scallions
scallions
cucumber
tomato
scallions
scallions
scallions
peppers
peppers
1 lettuce
2 lettuce
3 lettuce
4 lettuce
5 lettuce
6 lettuce
7 tomato
Seeding Log
Seeding Plan (AeroGarden 6 and all 7-Pod AeroGarden models)