Here are my little spinach sprouts. This is after 2 days in the Aerogarden pods. And I'm seeing baby bell peppers!! And a new crop of Red Robin cherry tomatoes...
Today I harvested 11 Fairy Tale eggplants and terminated that garden. The plant was still doing well and had blooms, but I'm tired of it and we don't like eggplant very much. I cleaned that AG and started a new cucumber pod. I keep hovering over the spinach. People have a lot of issues with spinach so I'm keeping a close eye on it but so far, so good. This is after 7 days...
Do you mean the eggplants or just in general? For most fruiting plants (eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, etc.) I just harvest the ripe produce and occasionally prune the plants to remove overgrowth or dead stuff. For leafy vegetables and herbs, I harvest what I need and leave the plants to keep growing. Many of them are "cut and come again;" they will keep growing new leaves until they bolt.
So what do you grow that's "One & Done"? In other words, you get one harvest out of it and that plant is depleted. I guess when we have outside gardens, the weather determines the end of the growing season, so there's no discovery of how much longevity there is to these things.
The only one and done that I have grown was radishes. Naturally all root veggies (carrots, onions, etc.) are one and done, as are some flowers. I think some tomato plants only bear once and then die but I'm not sure which ones. I have one little Red Robin cherry tomato that just keeps bearing fruit; it's about 7 months old and I get a handful of tomatoes every couple of days.
Now that I think about it, the "cut and come again" is really just a method of harvesting and not inherent to the plant. It leaves the plant intact as opposed to harvesting the entire plant. Some people cut an entire head of leafy lettuce or spinach at once, like you see in the grocery store. I just harvest the outer leaves.
Spinach at 13 days... Red Robin cherry tomatoes beginning to get ripe. These little plants are less than 10" tall.
OK all ready. Was just sorting through my seeds to get ready to plant some in planters and spilled tomatoes all over the kitchen! I think it's Beth's fault.
I would love to learn this method, but too much going on to take on anything else , maybe later this year.
Not much to learn, Marie. You just buy an Aerogarden, fill with water and plug in. They come with seed pods and liquid fertilizer so there's not much to it.