What materials do I need to make a hydroponic garden and what are the benefits?
Hi, I’m interested in starting a hydroponic garden to grow my own vegetables, flowers and fruits (mainly indoors) and I wanted to know how I could make a hydroponic garden myself (not one of those really expensive kits I see online.)
Can anyone give me advice on how to go about doing this, what materials I need and whats the best way to set it up? Any help would be appreciated.
Also, why are hydroponic gardens supposedly better for growing verses the soil method? I’ve heard plants usually grow larger and it uses less room, but why is that? Doesn’t soil have plenty of nutrients to keep the plant growing fine? Would enriching the soil with a lot of nutrients be the same as the hydroponic growing?
Sorry for so many questions, I’d just like to understand what hydoponics is.
I don’t recommend that any beginning gardener start out with hydroponics. You’re right, any good quality potting soil provides everything plants need to grow, and it’s much more forgiving and easier to grow plants in potting soil. Hydroponics is a way of automating gardening, and is cleaner, but it’s also far more complicated, and much easier to go wrong with. After you’ve gardened in soil for awhile, then you might want to take another look at hydroponics. Unless you like chemistry, though, it’s more complicated than I think is really worthwhile, especially at first.
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