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Aerogarden.org.uk – Sweaty nutrients, hard tap water and aerogarden pest control…

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m sure we’re all enjoying this Great British Summer of rain and cloud, but for your aerogarden nutrients, if not to us, the weather can be hot enough to make them sweat. Don’t be alarmed if your pack of nutrients arrives a bit soggy, there’s no harm done and as our American supplier tells us, this is perfectly normal.nutrients
(Some sweaty nutrients from our warehouse)

Another point to note – as with our warehouse in Wimbledon, the area you live in may have hard water from the mains, and may not be ideal for growing an aerogarden. The high mineral content of hard water could damage the aerogarden’s pump and hinder optimal plant growth, so to get around this we recomment using distilled tap water.
We’ve also some interesting emails documenting the exploits of some of your fellow aerogardeners. Nikki Anderson from London, came to us with puzzlement as to who had been nibbling at her parsley, before discovering…
The parsley thief is definitely a mouse - I found some droppings behind the Aerogarden this morning. He’s been nibbling away at the basil too!!! We’ve had pest control people in the building, they put down traps with poison in the flat but haven’t caught a thing. So now I’m bringing in the big guns - REAL mousetraps laid with a dollop of peanut butter, not these namby pamby plastic boxes. The fact that the mice have gone for our Aerogarden is a declaration of WAR and they’re going to lose!!! ;-)”
 So beware of losing out on your harvest to the attack of the mice. And beware to all mice who dare to cross an aerogardener by the looks of Nikki’s email.

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