What is Hydroponics Gardening? If you want to learn it, then keep reading...
The word itself comes from "hydro- "and "-ponos" meaning of water and labor. That will give you the vast majority of the information that you would need to know to understand this system. You are going to be looking at making use of a system in which you can plant and grow your seedlings in water to allow them to grow. With sustainability in mind, let's take a look at the art of hydroponic gardening. When you are making use of these sorts of plant systems, you are looking to grow your plants without soil in some way. That is the fundamental factor that must be remembered when you are trying to grow plants hydroponically.
Hydroponic gardening is the ability to grow plants, vegetables, fruit, herbs and even exotic flowers in a soilless environment. It makes use of only substrates or growing medium to replace the soil (just there to support your plants and their root structure), and water that is specifically modified with a variety of nutrients. These nutrients are designed or produced by understanding exactly what is needed to feed the root system of the specific plant that you are trying to grow.
Ultimately, if you are growing your plants with the use of water to deliver the nutrient-dense solution that you are feeding to your plants and you are removing the use of soil, you are probably growing your plants hydroponically.
It allows for space to be conserved. It will enable plants to use less water, fewer resources, and produce less waste because most of these methods will allow the plants to sort of recycle the solution that is not used up by the plants themselves.
This book covers the following topics:
- What is hydroponics and how hydroponic cultivation works.
- Advantages and disadvantages of greenhouse gardening
- Differences between indoor and outdoor crops.
- Different types of greenhouse.
- How to build a greenhouse.
- Tools and equipment.
- Smart space use in a greenhouse.
- Hydroponics in your greenhouse
- Different examples of cultivation of vegetables, herbs and fruits that you can grow all year round.
- Temperature control and light choose (natural and artificial)
- Tips and tricks.
- Pest
- Troubleshooting
- Get start and good luck.
...And much more
Growing is possible in locations that might not be suited to that particular crop or cultivar (we achieve much of this via greenhouses). Space can be maximized because crops can be grown vertically as well as horizontally, and not just limited to normal rows or furrows as in conventional crop production methods. The National Aeronautical Space Agency (NASA) has been making tremendous advances in research and various methods that can grow food-based crops to sustain astronauts while in space... I believe that hydroponics may really be the answer to a good deal of food production challenges faced globally; that by using this method you can take your own sustainability and self-reliance into your own hands.
