AeroGarden Flower Series - Manual (Page 8)

7 Tending Your Garden
Prune Plants to Prevent Shading
The following pages offer several pruning methods
to prevent shading for a variety of flower types .
Plants with Branching Leaves
To optimize the growth of your Garden and ensure
strong plants with bountiful flowers, prune large
leaves that shade other plants in your Garden .
•
Remove large leaves
or branches with
scissors .
•
Prune where leaf
or branch meets
another stem .
Photo at right shows how
plant might look after
pruning larger leaves.
Notice that the Mimulus
is no longer shaded.
Marigold leaf shading
smaller Mimulus.
K
eep Your Garden Healthy
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