Have Aerogarden ancient ephemera, memorabilia. What to do!?

[pfunnyjoy]

Found my old Aerogarden notebook. Geez, Louise! I'm a total clutterholic!

I have printouts of AG website instructions for cleaning the old AG Classic 7. 

I have printouts of how to use the old seed starter kit (a styrofoam affair with holes that just floated in the grow bowls). I don't even have this thing anymore, because I found it was a booger to clean after using. The detailed stuff AG had up for using it though was crazy!

I've got a few old pod labels. And old seed kit guides, which were WAY more comprehensive than the new ones! And in color! On semi-glossy paper.

I found a different variety of old spacer that came in an old tomato kit. And some "soy sauce" style liquid nutrient packets! And a printout of some instruction for their old "booster" nutrient TABLETS!

And a ton of other stuff, including things I really DON'T need to be storing! I have manuals for the Aerogarden 3 and 3 Elite. Probably extra manuals for the 6E+ gardens.

I have at least one 6 Elite+ box and I think a Veggie Pro box ... AND the box for the Classic 7!


I want to document some of this stuff by scanning, saving as PDF, then toss it. But I'm not sure that legally it is OK to share this info in its full form. I figure photographing old seed pod labels and covers of old kit guides, should be A-OK, as well as photographing the old boxes. But the detailed guides from the website, I don't know. Yet I hate for it to be lost.

Open to thoughts on this, in case anyone is an Aerogarden history buff.

Also, it occurred to me this morning that putting my LED conversion experience for the Classic 7 in my personal garden thread might not have been the best idea for it to be easily findable. I'm not sure where exactly such a thing should go, however!

If I make an "Ancient Aerogardening" thread, where should that optimally go?

[scarfguy]

Our leader, Shawn , will see this post and know how to handle it.

[pfunnyjoy]

Nov 10, 2023 21:28:36 GMT -5 scarfguy said:

Our leader, Shawn , will see this post and know how to handle it.

I wish I had someone to handle cleaning out my clutter!

I've also found some 2010 Burpee organic lettuce seeds in unopened packets. You know I'm going to have to see if any will germinate! One is Little Gem Romaine.

I found a few of the old seed starter set sponges. Which are both shorter and considerably skinnier than the sponges that go in the normal grow baskets, i.e. not interchangeable. But I think I can make them work in the Classic 7.
Next thing you know, I'll be growing 2010 seeds with 15-year-old nutes in equally old AG units. I am the Ancient Aerogardener! 

[lynnee]

Fascinating stuff, pfunnyjoy. Shawn is the person who will know what and where to post the scanned files here.

Maybe Aerogarden would be interested in the oldest manuals? They had/have the glossy seed starter booklets in the Support/Product Manuals section of aerogarden.com, and they have a lot of older manuals, but maybe not your oldest ones.

Are you sure you want to waste time with those really old seeds? It's not as if you dug them out of the permafrost ....

[pfunnyjoy]

Nov 11, 2023 16:22:57 GMT -5 lynnee said:

Fascinating stuff, pfunnyjoy . Shawn is the person who will know what and where to post the scanned files here.

Maybe Aerogarden would be interested in the oldest manuals? They had/have the glossy seed starter booklets in the Support/Product Manuals section of aerogarden.com, and they have a lot of older manuals, but maybe not your oldest ones.

Are you sure you want to waste time with those really old seeds? It's not as if you dug them out of the permafrost ....

Oh, that's a good thought! I didn't realize they had color seed kit manuals up on their site, but actually, having taken a peek, these may be very close to the old printed brochures. The "County Fair" look for the tomatoes and peppers looks familiar! I'll have to give those a more detailed look and comparison to what print versions I have later. 

I'm tempted to do the paper towel in ZipLoc bag thing with the old seeds, just see if any germinate AT ALL. Curiosity, mainly. They haven't been refrigerated, but it's been mostly dark, cool, dry where they were. Then again, I might just chuck them. 

I am making some progress de-cluttering my old AG stuff. I consolidated some small bags of Park sponges into larger ones. And found a couple bags of what I think were Grow Anything AG sponges, which as I like them less than the Park sponges, I'll try to use up first.

[pfunnyjoy]

I've taken a look at the assorted vegetable guides, and actually, other than some minor layout and/or cover differences, those all appear to be the same info as what's available from the website. So other than photographing them as a group for fun to show any differences between 2008/2009 and now, there's no need for those.

Except, there's no flower guide in the website list of stuff! Which is odd, since they do still sell flower pod kits. 

All the garden user manuals that I have are also on the site, so no need for me to scan those. I've tossed my extras tonight.

I also have the old Wall Shelf mounting instructions, (It's a completely different affair than what they currently call the wall shelf!) but that is unlikely to be of use to anyone, as it was meant to fit the bases of the old units. But it might be interesting for historical purposes.

So I think most of what I have could just be photographed and no need for PDFs or anything complicated that might tread on official AG toes. They can't possibly mind a user photographing packaging for historical reference, because that's fair use, otherwise people wouldn't have been able to post old gardens on eBay or elsewhere.

And likewise for reference pictures of old nutrients, pod labels, or old plant spacers or grow deck spacing comparisons.

So realistically, it would be a much smaller handful of things to post, yet folks might like to know how far AG has come with stuff.