Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Getting More Produce From your Hydroponic Garden
By: Susan Slobac Hydroponic gardening is a great way to garden indoors if you do not have arable land suitable for gardening. If you are going to be gardening indoors, you will want to garden efficiently, in order to get more produce from your hydroponic garden.
Hydroponics means that the plant is grown without dirt [...]
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Keep your Food Safe From Deadly Pesticides and Herbicides by Growing Hydroponic Vegetables at Home
By: Rory Larkey Keep Your Food Safe From Deadly Pesticides and Herbicides by Growing Hydroponic Vegetables at Home
Author: Rory Larkey
Hydroponics is a great, fun and clean way to grow plants indoors by supplying water, nutrients, and oxygen to their roots. Hydroponic growing is perfect for fruit bearing crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce [...]
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Hydroponics In Orange County
By: Ann Marier On any simple Internet search performed on Google you can come across dozens of sites that promote hydroponics in Orange County, acting as wholesalers or home-based businesses. The variety of products and services they offer, meets the need of any Orange County inhabitants that take pleasure in hydroponics either as a hobby [...]
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
There is Sufficient Reason to Feel Optimistic Regarding Hydroponics
By: Gregory Hepburn When you think about hydroponics, you will certainly feel a sense of optimism about the future of crop and plant cultivation as it bodes well for the times to come because we need some adequate means to maintain growth of plant life on earth in spite of the shortage of space. With [...]
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
The Best Media For Hydroponics Growing Systems
By: Ann Marier The hydroponics growing systems now available on the market include a variety of options to raise plants in the absence of soil. However, the decision about what kind of medium to use for instance is entirely up to the beneficiary. Keep yourself open to the variety of items that complete a standard [...]
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
What You Need to Know About Hydroponics
By: Clint Jhonson Hydroponics is a method used by people who grow plants with the help of mineral nutrient solution and not soil. Most terrestrial plants can be grown with their own roots in the mineral nutrient solution as long as they are in an inert medium like perlite, gravel or mineral wool. This method [...]
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Ancient Hydroponics Gardens
By: Susan Slobac The word “hydroponics” is derived from two Greek words: cidra, meaning water, and punikos, meaning labor; thus, literally “waterworks.” Contrary to popular belief, hydroponic gardening is an ancient form of agriculture, going back 3,000 years. There are references to the cultivation of plants directly in water in Egyptian records dating back to [...]
Monday, November 5th, 2007
The Ideal Hydroponics System
By: Ann Marier
Any hydroponics system is based on the same primary principle: you replace the soil with something else to support plant roots, in an effort to give a chance in areas of the world where nothing grows because of poor soil quality, such as sand and ice deserts, high mountain platforms and many [...]
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Main Types of Hydroponic Systems
By: Nicu Zara
A few centuries ago, the only way you could grow a plant without a soilless base was to suspend it over a pool of water mixed with nutrients, that would act as the feeding grounds replacing the earth’s diet. Nowadays, we have wick systems, ebb and flows, drips, aeroponics, the nutrient film [...]
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Hydroponic Plant Systems. What, No Dirt?
By: Robert Mosse
Simply put, hydroponics is the growing of plants without soil. The word “hydroponics” comes from the Greek word hydro, which means “water” and ponos, which means “labor or water-working.”
Typical Dirt Gardening:
All plant leaves need light, oxygen and carbon dioxide. Plant root systems require water, nutrients and oxygen. When plants are grown normally [...]