Hydroponic Gardening - Part 1
With this ever increasing population, the competition for land area becomes tighter and stricter.
Most residential homes of today resolve to have no further area allocations for gardens no longer as they need to prioritize their land area for home spaces.
But with ultimate brilliance of collaboration between science and nature, a new innovation of planting solution is given birth.
Imagine growing your own home garden without the need for soil.
This idea may seem impossible yesterday but it has become achievable today.
Science and technology have made this attainable today.
This innovation is called hydroponics which in Latin means 'working with water'.
Hydroponics is a new way of gardening that is gaining popularity in many parts of the word where plants are grown in the absence of soil.
It will occupy less space and plants will definitely grow much faster and healthier using this technique.
Plants will be placed in a growing medium like for instance a coconut fiber - or any material where the roots are placed-and a solution containing various nutrients needed by plants to grow is used instead.
This solution supplies all the necessary ingredients making possible for growth even without the use of soil.
Since it does not utilize any soil, there will be no tilling and thus it is less arduous than regular gardening.
The nutrient solution used in hydroponics is a right mixture of water and special kind of fertilizer.
However, as plants continue to grow, the nutrients they need will also change and there will be a need to alter the proportions of nutrients supplied to them.
It is important to provide them with the right strength and pH of nutrient solution so that they can receive just about the right amount of food needed for a healthier growth.
Hydroponics gardening is way more advance and with several advantages.
Apart from the obvious fact that it requires no land area, the growth and yield of plants are higher.
You may be able to grow 1000 plants in a hydroponic acre while it will only yield 33 percent to that of a soil acre.
This exceptional way of growing will also make possible the cultivation of different types of plants despite climate changes or geographical location.
Plants that grow only in season can now be produced any time of the year with hydroponic gardening.
Hydroponics has given plant agriculture a whole new point of view.
It is a brilliant innovation and clever resolution to the ever growing population.
Even a person without much interest in gardening would find hydroponics fascinating and would definitely want to try this kind of gardening simply because it is easy and the concept is interesting.