How does hydroponic gardening work?
Plants and vegetables don’t really need soil. What they need are nutrients, water, and adequate support. Since the earth has plenty of, well, earth, and because soil is a supportive source of nutrients and moisture, it has become inextricably linked with plants. Plants develop such extensive root systems because they must search the soil for food and water. Hydroponic gardening skips the middleman, i.e. soil, and feeds essential nutrients directly to the root system. This permits plants to spend more energy growing, resulting in quicker and stronger blooms and yields. Hydroponic gardening can make use of many alternative growing mediums, including water, air, Rockwool, sand, and gravel. Hydroponic gardening also utilizes many types of food delivery systems in which essential nutrients are mixed with water and distributed to plants via reservoirs or pumps. Liberated from their search for food, hydroponic plants grow up to 50% faster than soil plants. And because hydroponic gardening req
