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Tending Your Garden
Pruning
(Continued)
Fruiting Plants with Upright Main Stem (Ongoing)
When grown in an AeroGarden, these plants need extra pruning to
control plant height and spreading.
•
Branches that touch the lights
when the
Lamp Hood
is at the
highest setting need to be pruned.
•
Use scissors to cut branches
that are growing into the lights.
Follow the branch to where it
meets another branch – make
cut just before this junction.
Don’t be discouraged if you end
up cutting a branch with some
flowers, or even a few small unripe
fruit. Pruning strengthens your plants
and allows your garden to put
energy into growing new branches
that can support more fruit.
The photo at right shows the
same garden after pruning.
The branches are no longer
growing into the
Lamp Hood
.
