What is Hydroponic Gardening and what are its advantages?
Simply put, hydroponic gardening is a method of growing plants, without soil, by providing food and water directly to the roots of the plant. By doing so, we eliminate the need for the root system to expand looking for food and water, so the energy normally used by the plant to search for food is used for faster upward growth and fruit production. Since we don’t have competing root systems, we can grow significantly more plants using hydroponics in a given area than those grown in soil. In addition, we recirculate the water and nutrients, so hydroponic gardening ends up using a fraction of the water, with no fertilizer run-off. Another primary advantage to hydroponic gardening is control. We can quickly make adjustments as necessary to the strength of the nutrient solution, the pH, temperature, etc. to provide the perfect growing conditions and we eliminate soil as a breeding ground for common garden pests, reducing the need to apply harmful pesticides.
Simply put, hydroponic gardening is a method of growing plants, without soil, by providing food and water directly to the roots of the plant. By doing so, we eliminate the need for the root system to look for food and water, so the energy normally used by the plant to search for food is used for faster upward growth and fruit production. Since we don’t have competing root systems, we can grow significantly more plants using hydroponics in a given area than those grown in soil. In addition, we recirculate the water and nutrients, so hydroponic gardening ends up using a fraction of the water, with no fertilizer run-off. Another primary advantage to hydroponic gardening is control. We can quickly make adjustments as necessary to the strength of the nutrient solution, the pH, temperature, etc. to provide the perfect growing conditions and we eliminate soil as a breeding ground for common garden pests, reducing the need to apply harmful pesticides.
