Casa Garden

Gardening with hydroponics are tremendously popular. This is a procedure of gardening without soil. This process of hydroponics has been there since thousands of years and the two most prominent examples of hydroponic gardening are The Floating Gardens of China and The hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Hydroponics is a Greek work that means the combination water and labor.Countries like Germany, Netherlands and Australia are trying to use hydroponics for the purpose of growing herbs.

There are various profits of hydroponic gardening over the normal gardening on soil. In the research it is proved that hydroponic gardening is 30-50 percent more fast and effective to grow plants as compared to the soil based gardening.

There are different reasons for these varied differences of growth of normal soil-grown plant and hydroponic plant. The root of the plant under hydroponic gardening method develops immensely as in this process maximum oxygen is used and due to that the plant gets essential nutrients very fast. The nutrients are directly sent to the root of the plant after mixing with water and this process is done quite a few times in a day.

The energy required by a hydroponic plant is very cheap and hence the plant easily gets and breaks down the food. The plant saves the energy and uses it afterwards to produce faster and to grow more fruit. Plants grown with hydroponic nutrients are also safe from the diseases, fungus and bug infestations.

There are also environmental benefits of hydroponic gardening. Compared to the plants grown on soil; water needed for the plants under hydroponic gardening process is much less. This happens because of constant recycle of nutrients. Regular usage of harmful pesticides is also not required with hydroponic gardening. As topsoil is not used in hydroponic gardening, there is no possibility of topsoil erosion. In this way, hydroponic gardening offers us many environmental benefits too.

In the growing medium of hydroponic gardening, there is a airing and support to the root of the plant so that the water can be easily channeled along with the nutrients. The mediums of growing hydroponic plants are different. Hydroton or expanded shale is a fast medium of draining and it works really well in a flow type and an ebb system.

Hydroton is light and extended collection of clay.This medium of growing hydroponic plants is light and well-ventilated and thus oxygen gets easily passed to the roots of the plants.Recycle of both kinds of grow rocks is possible, though the shale has more of a propensity to break down and might not be as lasting as the Hydroton.These grow rocks are extremely steady and hardly ever effect the pH balance.

By applying the method of indoor hydroponic gardening can also grow melons, leafy vegetables, berries, grapes, etc. It is an amazing sight to see the plants bearing excellent fruits and vegetables after hydroponic gardening.