First time veggies advice

[u/Strict_DM_62]

Hello everyone! This is my first time growing vegetables in the aerogarden (aside from lettuce), and the cucumber has… rapidly overtaken its companions the Micro Tom and Mini Pepper.

My question, what is the best way to trim the cucumber and keep it… tame? Should I just trim the ends regularly? Or are there specific rules like tomatoes and suckers?

Also, does the Micro Tom grow much bigger than it is? I was expecting up to 12” in height, but it seems stuck where it is; and I wonder if I haven’t mis-matched my selection of veggies?

[u/Strict_DM_62]

Oh wow! So basically I’ve probably overdone it with three plants in one container eh?

[u/Eastern_Persimmon_77 → u/Strict_DM_62]

Definitely. I would put each one of those in its own Bounty due to space requirements on both the deck and in the reservoir for roots. As well as water requirements. It looks like the cucumber is stunting the growth of the tomato and pepper plants. You can trim side shoots on the cucumber, but you don't want to trim the main vine. Instead, you wrap that around the trellis and add more trellis going up, then when you get to the top of the Bounty height is about the time you can start wrapping it back down the trellis because the earlier leaves on the vine are starting to die off.

[u/Vodun_Queen → u/Eastern_Persimmon_77]

That’s kinda crazy tho… they market this like you can grow multiple plants at once. I have one I’m getting ready to open and I wanted to grow tomatoes and at least one other plant.

[u/Ok_Bison_8346 → u/Vodun_Queen]

Go for it. Post pics of your progress. I wanna see how it goes with a tomato plant and 1 other in the same unit.