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Hydroponics' time has come - agriculture without soil. In a time when we are looking for safe and nutritional fruits and vegetables, free of pesticides and fresh all year long, hydroponics has a lot to offer the home gardener and the greenhouse producer. Hydroponics Today is a collection of articles on what is new and happening in hydroponics throughout the world and in your community.
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The Hydroponic Garden--A Guide to Hydroponics
Hydroponics allows us to grow the plants, fruits and vegetables of our choice--even in limited space--without using soil. It's an amazing way to produce perfect specimens and offers TONS of advantages that traditional gardening can't come close to touching!
U-Pick-It Farm: Alternative to High Prices (tampabays10.com) (26 May 2008)
The owners of Hydro Harvest Farms want everyone in the Bay area to know that their farm is a one stop alternative to the high price in the produce aisle at the grocery stores. Terrie and John Lawson got the idea to open their own farm from a newspaper three years ago. They read how a Plant City farmer was using hydroponics to grow his strawberry crops. So, they took a piece of land they owned on Shell Fish Road in Ruskin and turned it into Hydro Harvest Farms.
How to Make an Indoor Hydroponic Garden (25 May 2008)
If you want to learn how to make an indoor hydroponic garden, you need to know the difference between an active hydroponic area and a passive one. Active hydroponic systems pass a nutrient solution over the plant roots. You will need a large sized planting medium like vermiculite, perlite and pea gravel. To make an indoor hydroponic system passively, you will be providing a system that uses a wick or capillary system to feed your plants.
It's Never a Dirty Job (augustachronicle.com) (25 May 2008)
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.
Growing Fruit, Vegetables Aloft Takes Hold (jcfloridan.com) (25 May 2008)
For some folks, half the joy of gardening is crawling around on hands and knees, getting dirty, and doing battle with bugs and weeds. But for others, the physical demands of growing vegetables and fruit make it an impossible or distasteful endeavor. Enter the age of hydroponics, which offers an alternative way to grow.
Where to Find Hydroponically Grown Produce (25 May 2008)
Do you want to know where you can find fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs that are grown hydroponically in your area? I'm starting a list and will add to it. Nothing beats fresh picked produce and when it's grown with hydroponics, you know you don't have to worry about pesticides and poor nutritional value. Find a U-Pick farm or grow your own.
Self Sufficient Life
Learn about keeping And raising chickens and poultry, growing your own fruit and vegetables, herbal remedies, how to build your own greenhouse, and hydroponic gardening. Today, hydroponics is used in a variety of settings. Wherever soil is unavailable, hydroponic gardening seems to appear. Wildcatters on offshore oilrigs grow their own tomatoes. Cooks on nuclear submarines hydroponically grow vegetables to use in there crew's meals. Right now, plants are growing on orbiting space stations without a single grain of soil.
Do You Need a Garden to Grow Vegetables? (20 Feb 2008)
Do you really need a garden to grow your own vegetables and herbs? Not really. On a small scale, all you really need is a kitchen counter. With hydroponics, you can grow your own food just about anywhere, even in a basement. All it takes is enough light, the right temperature, a grow medium to anchor the plant's roots, and a nutrient solution.
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