How Do You Get Started Growing Vegetables With Hydroponics?
Hydroponic gardening is a method of growing plants without soil. Instead, plants are stabilized in growing mediums and their roots fertilized with nutrient solutions. This allows the plants to feed directly on the nutrients. Hydroponic vegetables have better taste with higher vitamin content. There are several kinds of hydroponic systems you can use. Passive hydroponic systems use capillary action to draw up nutrients to the plant. Active systems require pumps that bring nutrients to the root systems of the plant. Recovery systems re-use nutrient solutions, while non-recovery systems do not. Choose a growing system you can manage. What kind of equipment you will need depends on what kind of hydroponic system you choose. A passive non-recovery system uses a simple wicking process that allows water to travel up a candle or lantern wick into the root system of the plant. An ebb-and-flow system uses a pump to flood the root system for 20 to 30 minutes and then recovers the solution into a
