It's Never a Dirty Job (augustachronicle.com)

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!

Friday, May 23, 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.

He planted his first hydroponic tomatoes 12 years ago in a backyard plot measuring 12 by 24 feet.

A few years later, he upgraded to a larger, computerized greenhouse that churns out up to 1,100 pounds of tomatoes some weeks.

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