How Can Plants Grow Without Soil?
If plants are getting the right nutrients from the soil and air around them, it is quite easy to successfully grow plants without soil. Why would you choose to grow plants in this way if you have soil or a yard handy? Studies show that more produce can be grown in a smaller space using hydroponic or aeroponic methods. For example at Disney, about 250 tons of tomatoes can be grown per acre in the aeroponic garden, compared to about 10 tons per acre in conventional gardens in the ground. Plants grown without soil also tend to grow faster than plants in the ground or in containers. From an environmental point of view, these methods of gardening are ideal because they use less water than planting in the ground, as well as no soil. The plants can be grown organically very easily because they aren’t assaulted by the pests in the soil and can even be grown indoors, away from insects and other pests. Disney might not have been that far off when they said that aeroponics would be part of the Fu
