Hydroponics vs soil growing : Which do you prefer?
In a straight shootout of hydroponics vs soil growing which would be better, let’s find out.
Gardening in the Winter Indoors: Beat the Winter Blues
What do you do over the winter? Are you bored as a gardener in the winter? Want to get out into the garden but can’t? Dream of the long summer of days to come? Why not try gardening in the winter indoors? It will challenge you to grow something – you never know you may …
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Dramatic increases of out of season food prices
What started it? Due to unseasonal weather in the regions we rely upon in the winter to grow our out of season vegetable crops, like cucumbers, lettuce and kale. We can expect price hikes within the UK during 2017. This will continue until the next regions crops are ready.
Hydroponic Systems: What Types are there?
What are Hydroponic systems? Hydroponic systems are a method of growing plants without soil. Or more strictly with ‘working water’, but it mainly means any system which does not use soil. There are several different hydroponic systems. These include deep water culture (DWC) nutrient film technique(NFT) aeroponics, flood and drain or ebb and flow wick …
DWC for Tomatoes
DWC For Tomatoes Hi, are you interested in growing tomatoes? Getting year after year consistent results? I am and I would like to share with you my method of DWC for tomatoes. This system may not be the best but it does give repeatable and reliable results. So – how do I do DWC for …
Home Battery Backup Power Supply
Why would you need a home battery backup power supply for hydroponics? Well everything the plants need is run off the mains in most systems. You have heaters, pumps, timers and sensitive electronics all required to keep your plants alive. Without electricity for a few hours your plants will suffer and some will never recover. …
What Would You Grow With Hydroponics?
Why Would You Grow With Hydroponics? It is easy to grow with Hydroponics. The plants have an easy time of it, you supply them with the right conditions for them to grow. You add nutrient at the right strength, light them with the right lighting, support them if they need it, so what else do …
Be The Envy of Your Neighbours – Turbocharge Your Tomatoes
Do you grow tomatoes? Yeah – then you should be using this system to turbocharge your tomatoes. I came across hydroponics about 10 years ago. Looking around at the time, even the basic systems were expensive. Nowadays the market has developed into a mass market and prices of the basic sytems have dropped.
History of Hydroponics
What most people don’t realise is that hydroponics is not a recent technique for growing plants. Way back Before Christ, we find that the Arabs were growing melons on the dry and sandy riverbeds, being watered with solutions of composted animal excreta. A simliar process was used in India to grow watermelons, cucumbers and other …