Hydroponics Today Latest articles from Hydroponics Today (http://www.hydroponics-today.com) http://www.hydroponics-today.com 2010-09-05T03:31:03+01:00 text/html 2008-05-25T20:42:09+01:00 http://www.hydroponics-today.com <p>Friday, May 23, 2008 </p><p>Jeff McDanel never gets dirt under his fingernails. There isn't any to sully his hands in the greenhouse he maintains just south of Aiken.</p><p> </p><p>It's such an effective system that his vines measure 45 feet long at the end of the growing system, with tomatoes as large as softballs, he said.</p><p> </p> <p>He planted his first hydroponic tomatoes 12 years ago in a backyard plot measuring 12 by 24 feet.</p><p> </p> <p>A few years later, he upgraded to a larger, computerized greenhouse that churns out up to 1,100 pounds of tomatoes some weeks.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://chronicle.augusta.com/ystories/052308/gar_367369.shtml" target="_blank" title="Hydroponic gardener">read more</a> ... </p><p> </p><p> </p> http://www.hydroponics-today.com/its-never-a-dirty-a4.html Jeff McDanel never gets dirt under his fingernails. There isn't any to sully his hands in the greenhouse he maintains just south of Aiken. It's such an effective system that his vines measure 45 feet long at the end of the growing system, with tomatoes as large as softballs, he said.