Is Hydroponic Gardening Good For Growing Vegetables?

Gardening can be more than just planting flowers. You can even create a variety of gardens of your own choice. Fruits and vegetables taste much good if they are planted by yourself. It is definitely one’s choice to choose the better option for growing vegetables in their garden. People with little space for gardening have an option to choose hydroponic farming.



Basically, hydroponic belongs to the hydroculture in which plants are grown where there is a little soil, or in an aquatic-based environment. This type of gardening utilizes mineral nutrient solutions to feed the plants in water with no additive soil. The hydroponics does not require any climatic factor to help the plants to grow. In fact, the plants or the vegetables are grown any time of the year regardless of how hot the weather is or the amount of rain showered.

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Hydrophonics Gardening Hobby for All Seasons

If you love gardening but are hampered by the cold weather, you should start hydroponics gardening. Since this requires no soil, as you will just be growing vegetables, flowers or fruits on a mineral nutrient solution; you can easily harvest them even in bitter winter weather.


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Hydrophonics gardening is a good hobby to start with since all you have to do is buy your kits. Plants will only need an environment with enough light to thrive, so even if it is gloomy, you can still use grow lights for your garden.

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Hydroponic Greenhouse Gardening Is A Great Option For Growing Vegetables

By Percy Troughton

Why Hydroponic Greenhouse Gardening is Good for the Environment
Most tried and true organic gardeners have long looked upon hydroponic greenhouse gardening with disdain. This kind of gardening has long been considered by the purists to be a form of chemical agriculture. The thought of feeding tender young vegetable shoots a steady diet of chemicals was not what organic farmers had in mind. They were trying to get away from this type of farming practices, until a man named Steve Fox from Albuquerque, New Mexico came onto the hydroponic greenhouse gardening scene.




Environmental Hydroponic Greenhouse Gardening

This type of gardening is a viable alternative to the destruction of once fertile soils using chemicals. The proposal is that hydroponic greenhouse gardening will produce greater yields and would free up the land once used for commercial farming into soil that could be refreshed and renewed for actual organic farming.

No longer would the chemicals that Big Food implements for the growing process poison the soil, it could all be contained by hydroponic greenhouse gardening. In a greenhouse atmosphere, chemicals considered dangerous would be used within a controlled environment. Gravel is used as the stabilizing material for the roots and stems of plants, so the only thing the chemicals would be spoiling is that same gravel.

You may be saying to yourself, “Now wait just a minute, I don’t want my family or myself to eat vegetables that have been grown in a chemical solution.” When you grow vegetables using hydroponic greenhouse gardening practices, the vegetables are not taking in any harmful chemicals, they are taking in a specialized chemical solution that is made to nourish them.

The Natural Alternative

Hydroponic greenhouse gardening is a way to feed the plant and not the soil. Conventional gardening methods also use chemical fertilizer to feed the plants, but it is not to theirs and the soil’s advantage, and that is why this method is beginning to fail. Soil can easily be depleted of its valuable nutrients when farming and growing practices fail to take into account the future of the land they are using.

Most big food growers incorporate methods that produce high yields of produce without thought to future generations. When growers use the hydroponic greenhouse gardening method, you can give the soil a chance to regenerate and replenish the minerals and nutrients it needs to be rich and fertile.

Before thinking of hydroponic greenhouse gardening in a negative light, find out the facts before you make any final decisions. You may find that the positive aspects of hydroponic greenhouse gardening far outweigh the negative. Do your research and find out more about how hydroponic greenhouse gardening can produce vegetables that are fresh, tasty, nutritious and good for the environment too.

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Growing Vegetables using No-Energy Hydroponics

By Dennis DeLaurier

If you are worried about the safety of the food you eat, then you just might be interested in growing your own vegetables using no-energy hydroponics. Hydroponics is a dirt free method of growing plants usually using an inert medium that holds the plant and a liquid nutrient. Most hydroponics systems use electricity to pump and feed the nutrient to the plant. Some of these systems recycle the nutrient and can be quite complex and expensive. No-energy hydroponics systems replace all that electrical energy with a little bit of human energy.

No-energy hydroponics is nothing new, and has been used for thousands of years. The author has used this type of system to grow just about any type of vegetable. Vegetables like green beans, lettuce, tomatoes and herbs do quite well. A no-energy system consists of plants placed in an inert medium and fed nutrients at intervals determined by examining the wetness of the medium, and the health of the plant. The authors favorite medium is coconut fiber placed in a large plastic food tray. Other types of containers can be made from wood frames and plastic that lines the bottom. The minimum depth of the tray should be around 4 inches or more. None of the trays should have holes for the nutrient to escape and is why so little energy is needed to keep the plants happy.

To create your own no-energy hydroponics system, you will need a good container, some seeds or plants and a good medium like coconut fiber. Additionally, you will need some hydroponics fertilizer. The coconut fiber and fertilizer can be found at a hydroponics store or ordered over the Internet. The author found his deep food tray at Sams. You might look for them at restaurant supply houses as well. Once you have everything, it will be time to mix up the coconut fiber and add it to your tray.

Fill your tray to the top with coconut fiber. If you are starting seeds, refer to the seed packet for seed depth. You will want to moisten the top layer of the coconut fiber with water and keep it moist until the seeds sprout. Once sprouted, you can start adding half strength nutrient until they get their first true leaves. Make sure that the tray gets a lot of sun light and keep the coconut fiber damp but never wet. How often you need to add nutrient depends on the temperature, plant size and humidity. Herbs and lettuce really grow well in the tray environment, and are happy placed in a sunny window. If you want to grow tomatoes, the author suggests that you try miniature or patio tomatoes. To see some examples of no-energy hydroponics, you can visit the authors web site at http://www.crescenthydroponics.com.

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