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[https://joegardener.com/podcast/primer-hydroponic-gardening-growing-water/ by joe gardener 12/5/22]

Roger is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, but he now lives and gardens in North Carolina, zone 8, where he enjoys the much longer growing season. He’s someone who is always trying out new ideas and new methods of growing crops. He’s been experimenting with hydroponics for the last five-plus years after meeting author and horticulturist Brie Arthur. He had watched the episode of my public television program “Growing a Greener World” with Brie on hydroponics and decided to give it a shot himself. It turned out that he and Brie didn’t live that far from each other. He contacted her, and she invited him over. They’ve been friends ever since.

=====18 Plants you can grow YEAR-ROUND hydroponically=====

[https://ourlittlesuburbanfarmhouse.com/18-plants-you-can-grow-year-round-hydroponically/ by Our Little Suburban]

I’m not your “normal” micro homesteader, I mean I do all the normal stuff like grow food in my garden, preserve it, DIYs, reduce debt and all that jazz. But on top of all that I have a passion for growing food indoors hydroponically as well. If I could just encourage a handful more micro homesteaders to start growing food indoors I would be a happy lady. I am honestly surprised more people don’t do it as it allows me to grow food year-round and cut whole sections out of my grocery bill!

=====Hydroponics: A Better Way to Grow Food=====

[https://www.nps.gov/articles/hydroponics.htm National Park Service]

When you think about the produce grown for concession food service operations, do you picture acres of open fields, rows of tilled soil, and seedlings lining the tops of the mounds? While much of the world’s fruits and vegetables are grown this way, there are other ways to grow produce without large amounts of land — and even without soil!

=====Hydroponic gardening: a clever way to grow plants in small spaces=====

[https://smudailycampus.com/1064714/ae/hydroponic-gardening-a-clever-way-to-grow-plants-in-small-spaces/ by The Daily Campus]

Opening the box, I found the planter, tubes, grow lights, small bags full of strange objects and thankfully an instruction manual complete with photos. The hydroponic planter had more buttons than my TV remote, but I was determined to turn my culinary dreams into reality. And, after a few hours of what I can only describe as mechanical warfare, the planter was assembled.

Choosing my herbs to plant was like drafting players for a fantasy football team, except with more basil and less beer. I planted them with care, knowing full well that I had killed every houseplant I’ve ever owned.

=====What Are Hydroponic Systems and How Do They Work?=====

[https://www.freshwatersystems.com/blogs/blog/what-are-hydroponic-systems?srsltid=AfmBOopjUjoMSDsPLmH88TLhb2ZyfkC80chy1ya6tpPUhuXpUuW9ZZEG by John Woodard 26/8/19 Fresh Water Systems]

Hydroponics, a Latin word meaning “working water,” is the art of gardening without soil. In the absence of soil, water works to provide nutrients, hydration, and oxygen to plant life. From watermelons to jalapeños to orchids, plants flourish under the careful regimen of hydroponics. Using minimal space, 90% less water than traditional agriculture, and ingenious design, hydroponic gardens grow beautiful fruits and flowers in half the time.

=====Hydroponic Gardening Best Practices: Tips for Success in Your Hydroponic System=====

[https://urbanhydrogardening.com/threads/hydroponic-gardening-best-practices-tips-for-success-in-your-hydroponic-system.9/ by My Gardens]

Hydroponic systems offer a versatile and efficient way to grow plants without soil, allowing you to cultivate fresh produce right at home. To help you achieve optimal results in your hydroponic endeavors, we have compiled some best practices and tips. Let's dive in!

=====Can you explain how a hydroponic garden works? Does it require soil or just water and nutrients?=====

[https://www.quora.com/Can-you-explain-how-a-hydroponic-garden-works-Does-it-require-soil-or-just-water-and-nutrients by Quora]

There are different methods of irrigating the roots. Flooding or partial flooding, where a pump fills a trough or a tray, which then drains out to a holding tank again to air the roots a little, and then gets reused later. This system needs to be kept clean from germs, which can infect a whole supply of plants being watered by the one source. This saves a lot of water though, if water is in extremely short supply.

You can use drip irrigation or sprinklers to “water and waste”. This will require a substrate that retains water better than marbles or river sand, or the plants will dry out too rapidly. Pine bark is good for that, or a finer grit (clean) sand. You'll need to compensate extra nitrogen though for the pine bark because the nitrogen will get used up trying to decompose the bark, and the plant will run short. Sand does dry out fast, so may require extra irrigation cycles. It depends on the volume that the container holds, whether it is a seedling tray with really small cavities, or a grow bag that can come in various sizes.

=====Hydroponic gardening=====

[https://coalpail.com/coal-forum/viewtopic.php?t=56580 by ColdHouse 9/4/23]

Way back in the day I made a pretty sophisticated DIY aeroponic garden that was awesome. Then I decided that outdoors was the way to go so I set up a NFT system which I had the smallest possible reservoir everything made out of 4 inch PVC. I used an airtight 5 gallon container with a pipe to keep the reservoir filled to minimum capacity. So there was always nutrient solution and or water that was fresh because it had to always be replenished from the new supply. With that system I had an airlift pump that lifted the highly oxygenated water from the tiny reservoir back into the system nonstop.

=====What are the advantages of hydroponics?=====

[https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3396/what-are-the-advantages-of-hydroponics by Gardening & Landscaping]

There are a few 'advantages' to growing plants via hydroponics. It is mostly just a way to grow plants in a different environment (indoors, or in a non-native environment). Just like growing vegetables in a greenhouse wouldn't per se be 'better' than growing them in a field. There are advantages to both: a greenhouse allows you to grow things that aren't naturally suited to your environment, whereas a field would allow you to a much larger quantity of plants per cost. Hydroponic is just another way to suit a person's tastes/needs in a growing environment.

=====12 Pros & Cons of Hydroponic Farming=====

[https://earth.org/hydroponic-farming/ by EARTH.ORG]

Nowadays, food-growing techniques depend heavily on pesticides and chemicals, which negatively impact the water and soil. Water and soil pollution, along with large-scale depletion of the topsoil, speed up climate change. Phenomena related to it are affecting the ability of the land to grow crops, leading to worldwide food shortages. In recent years, agricultural practices have seen a major shift towards sustainable food-growing methods, including permaculture, crop rotation, polyculture, and hydroponic farming. We take a look at the latter and analyze its potential benefits and disadvantages.

=====Hydroponics: A Brief Guide to Growing Food Without Soil=====

[https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2756 by Extension]

Hydroponic systems can be classified as either water-culture or medium-culture. Water culture systems do not use a medium to support the roots, only the nutrient solution. Medium culture systems use a solid substrate, such as sand, to support the plant root structure. Systems can be either open or closed. In an open system, the nutrient solution flows past the roots, and the solution is not recycled. In a closed system, the surplus nutrient solution is recovered, recharged and recycled through the system.

=====We Tried 11 of the Most Popular Indoor Gardening Systems=====

[https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-indoor-gardening-systems/ by WIRED]

Several years ago, I moved to a house on a quarter-acre lot on the outer edge of town, where residential development rubs up against undeveloped wildland. “My gardening dreams are finally coming true!” I thought. It took only three seasons of hard clay soil, deer, and persistent rabbits to disabuse me of the notion that outdoor gardening was ever going to happen for me. My gardening endeavors had to be moved indoors. I’ve had various tiny LED planter setups since then, but the latest large-scale indoor vertical gardens have had me intrigued. The ability to grow 20, 30, or even 40 veggies and fresh herbs, year-round, in a space smaller than a bookshelf? Sign me up!

=====Hydroponic Grow Systems for Growing Vegetables=====

[https://www.zone3vegetablegardening.com/post/hydroponic-growing-systems by Krista Green 15/4/24 ZONE 3 VEGETABLE GARDENING]

I purchased a hydroponic grow system 2.5 years ago now, and continue to love it so much! Before growing hydroponically, I had tried to grow lettuce and herbs indoors in soil through the winter a few years in a row, but every time I ran into problems. Aphids that kept re-appearing, fungus gnats, plants growing slowly, forgetting to water... It never did seem to work well for me so I decided to go ahead and invest in a quality hydroponic growing system and haven't looked back since! I couldn't be more please with how easy it is and how little time growing food in my hydroponic tower requires.

=====10 Benefits of Hydroponics & Its Impact on Agriculture=====

[https://www.edengreen.com/blog-collection/benefits-of-hydroponics by edengreen TECHNOLOGY]The first and most clear benefit of hydroponics is that this growing method needs no soil. Why does this matter? Land degradation is a

Serious problem facing agriculture and the world today. As soil degrades, it becomes more and more difficult to farm in it.

Land degradation happens through both physical and chemical methods. Physical degradation relates to natural erosion and physical disturbance, as farming equipment may cause. Chemical degradation happens due to pollution and other types of contamination. Both kinds of degradation result in soil with fewer nutrients and less suited to growing healthy crops.

Hydroponic crops don’t contribute to soil degradation, so they can help slow land degradation. These crops aren’t affected by the results of this crisis either since they don’t rely on healthy topsoil for their nutrients.

=====Hydroponics at Home=====

[https://extension.unh.edu/resource/hydroponics-home by Jonathan Ebba 8/23]

Whatever type of system is used, water levels must be maintained and roots must not dry out. As plants take up water and release it through their leaves (transpiration), the water level in the system will drop and must be replenished. You will need to monitor the water level in your system regularly. When designing your system, think about whether roots might dry out with rising or falling water levels.

Although water in the system is absolutely critical, some people put more importance on water quality than is necessary. Use water that’s safe to drink for your hydroponics system. Water from a well or from a municipal supply is fine. A lot is made of water pH in hydroponics, and for commercial producers, correct pH is important to maximize uptake of micronutrients, but fine-tuning water pH can be difficult and expensive. For home hydroponics a water pH between 5.5 and 7.0 is fine.

As far as other elements dissolved in the water (minerals, “hardness”, chloride, etc.), a commercial producer will mix up exactly the nutrients needed for the crop so knowing the level of these nutrients already in the water will allow her to save money by including less of these. You are likely to use a pre-formulated fertilizer, however, so knowing the concentration of plant nutrients already in your water will be of little value.

=====How to Grow Hydroponic Plants=====

[https://permies.com/t/144394/Grow-Hydroponic-Plants by Shir Gutman permies.com]

The premise is it uses no soil, and instead uses inert mediums such as rock wool, clay pebbles, sand, coconut hulls and others as the "soil" for the roots to grow in. There are also techniques that don't involve any mediums and the plant is held upright in a netted cup and the roots just grow in water. The water must be oxygenated and not allowed to go anaerobic. It requires buying special fertilizers that have all nutrients in a ionic or chelated form, ready to be taken up by the plants roots without the aid of microbial activity. There are microbial and fungal products on the market to put some biological activity in the water. That's my simple layman definition of the gist of how it works.

=====Automated agriculture: Building a DIY hydroponic gardening system=====

[https://www.viam.com/post/diy-hydroponic-gardening-system-build by Arielle Mella 16/9/24 VIAM]

Outdoor gardening and nurturing indoor plants have been a long-time hobby of mine. There's something truly refreshing about being surrounded by beautiful, lush greenery.

My outdoor garden, in particular, has always been focused on flowers. I’ve carefully tended to a mix of annuals and perennials throughout the seasons, killing and bringing to life many species of flora over the years, trying to put the jungle in my concrete jungle apartment.

=====How to build your own hydroponic system: a beginners guide=====

[https://www.squaremilefarms.com/post/how-to-build-your-own-hydroponic-system-a-beginners-guide by SQUARE MILE FARMS 28/1/21]

Dish is Square Mile Farms’ Head Farmer. He’s spent the last year experimenting with growing 40+ types of vegetables, herbs and microgreens at our Paddington rooftop farm and in our office farm installations. Using his knowledge of building and maintaining indoor hydroponic systems he is on a mission to help London workers reconnect with their food by helping them grow it themselves!

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+{{#seo:
+|title=Hydroponics
+|description=A Collection of articles about hydroponics.
+|keywords=gardeners, crops, Dutch bucket, project, blocks, indoor, plants, herbs, pests, droughts, seed
+|image=File:Hydroponics.jpg
+|image_width=300
+|image_height=200}}
 =====Hydroponics=====
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics by Wikipedia]
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 [https://joegardener.com/podcast/primer-hydroponic-gardening-growing-water/ by joe gardener 12/5/22]
   Roger is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, but he now lives and gardens in North Carolina, zone 8, where he enjoys the much longer growing season. He’s someone who is always trying out new ideas and new methods of growing crops. He’s been experimenting with hydroponics for the last five-plus years after meeting author and horticulturist Brie Arthur. He had watched the episode of my public television program “Growing a Greener World” with Brie on hydroponics and decided to give it a shot himself. It turned out that he and Brie didn’t live that far from each other. He contacted her, and she invited him over. They’ve been friends ever since.
+=====18 Plants you can grow YEAR-ROUND hydroponically=====
+[https://ourlittlesuburbanfarmhouse.com/18-plants-you-can-grow-year-round-hydroponically/ by Our Little Suburban]
+ I’m not your “normal” micro homesteader, I mean I do all the normal stuff like grow food in my garden, preserve it, DIYs, reduce debt and all that jazz. But on top of all that I have a passion for growing food indoors hydroponically as well. If I could just encourage a handful more micro homesteaders to start growing food indoors I would be a happy lady. I am honestly surprised more people don’t do it as it allows me to grow food year-round and cut whole sections out of my grocery bill!
+=====Hydroponics: A Better Way to Grow Food=====
+[https://www.nps.gov/articles/hydroponics.htm National Park Service]
+ When you think about the produce grown for concession food service operations, do you picture acres of open fields, rows of tilled soil, and seedlings lining the tops of the mounds? While much of the world’s fruits and vegetables are grown this way, there are other ways to grow produce without large amounts of land — and even without soil!
+=====Hydroponic gardening: a clever way to grow plants in small spaces=====
+[https://smudailycampus.com/1064714/ae/hydroponic-gardening-a-clever-way-to-grow-plants-in-small-spaces/ by The Daily Campus]
+ Opening the box, I found the planter, tubes, grow lights, small bags full of strange objects and thankfully an instruction manual complete with photos. The hydroponic planter had more buttons than my TV remote, but I was determined to turn my culinary dreams into reality. And, after a few hours of what I can only describe as mechanical warfare, the planter was assembled.
+Choosing my herbs to plant was like drafting players for a fantasy football team, except with more basil and less beer. I planted them with care, knowing full well that I had killed every houseplant I’ve ever owned.
+=====What Are Hydroponic Systems and How Do They Work?=====
+[https://www.freshwatersystems.com/blogs/blog/what-are-hydroponic-systems?srsltid=AfmBOopjUjoMSDsPLmH88TLhb2ZyfkC80chy1ya6tpPUhuXpUuW9ZZEG by John Woodard  26/8/19 Fresh Water Systems]
+ Hydroponics, a Latin word meaning “working water,” is the art of gardening without soil. In the absence of soil, water works to provide nutrients, hydration, and oxygen to plant life. From watermelons to jalapeños to orchids, plants flourish under the careful regimen of hydroponics. Using minimal space, 90% less water than traditional agriculture, and ingenious design, hydroponic gardens grow beautiful fruits and flowers in half the time.
+=====Hydroponic Gardening Best Practices: Tips for Success in Your Hydroponic System=====
+[https://urbanhydrogardening.com/threads/hydroponic-gardening-best-practices-tips-for-success-in-your-hydroponic-system.9/ by My Gardens]
+ Hydroponic systems offer a versatile and efficient way to grow plants without soil, allowing you to cultivate fresh produce right at home. To help you achieve optimal results in your hydroponic endeavors, we have compiled some best practices and tips. Let's dive in!
+=====Can you explain how a hydroponic garden works? Does it require soil or just water and nutrients?=====
+[https://www.quora.com/Can-you-explain-how-a-hydroponic-garden-works-Does-it-require-soil-or-just-water-and-nutrients by Quora]
+ There are different methods of irrigating the roots. Flooding or partial flooding, where a pump fills a trough or a tray, which then drains out to a holding tank again to air the roots a little, and then gets reused later. This system needs to be kept clean from germs, which can infect a whole supply of plants being watered by the one source. This saves a lot of water though, if water is in extremely short supply.
+You can use drip irrigation or sprinklers to “water and waste”. This will require a substrate that retains water better than marbles or river sand, or the plants will dry out too rapidly. Pine bark is good for that, or a finer grit (clean) sand. You'll need to compensate extra nitrogen though for the pine bark because the nitrogen will get used up trying to decompose the bark, and the plant will run short. Sand does dry out fast, so may require extra irrigation cycles. It depends on the volume that the container holds, whether it is a seedling tray with really small cavities, or a grow bag that can come in various sizes.
+=====Hydroponic gardening=====
+[https://coalpail.com/coal-forum/viewtopic.php?t=56580 by ColdHouse 9/4/23]
+ Way back in the day I made a pretty sophisticated DIY aeroponic garden that was awesome. Then I decided that outdoors was the way to go so I set up a NFT system which I had the smallest possible reservoir everything made out of 4 inch PVC. I used an airtight 5 gallon container with a pipe to keep the reservoir filled to minimum capacity. So there was always nutrient solution and or water that was fresh because it had to always be replenished from the new supply. With that system I had an airlift pump that lifted the highly oxygenated water from the tiny reservoir back into the system nonstop.
+=====What are the advantages of hydroponics?=====
+[https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3396/what-are-the-advantages-of-hydroponics by Gardening & Landscaping]
+ There are a few 'advantages' to growing plants via hydroponics. It is mostly just a way to grow plants in a different environment (indoors, or in a non-native environment). Just like growing vegetables in a greenhouse wouldn't per se be 'better' than growing them in a field. There are advantages to both: a greenhouse allows you to grow things that aren't naturally suited to your environment, whereas a field would allow you to a much larger quantity of plants per cost. Hydroponic is just another way to suit a person's tastes/needs in a growing environment.
+=====12 Pros & Cons of Hydroponic Farming=====
+[https://earth.org/hydroponic-farming/ by EARTH.ORG]
+ Nowadays, food-growing techniques depend heavily on pesticides and chemicals, which negatively impact the water and soil. Water and soil pollution, along with large-scale depletion of the topsoil, speed up climate change. Phenomena related to it are affecting the ability of the land to grow crops, leading to worldwide food shortages. In recent years, agricultural practices have seen a major shift towards sustainable food-growing methods, including permaculture, crop rotation, polyculture, and hydroponic farming. We take a look at the latter and analyze its potential benefits and disadvantages.
+=====Hydroponics: A Brief Guide to Growing Food Without Soil=====
+[https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2756 by Extension]
+ Hydroponic systems can be classified as either water-culture or medium-culture. Water culture systems do not use a medium to support the roots, only the nutrient solution. Medium culture systems use a solid substrate, such as sand, to support the plant root structure. Systems can be either open or closed. In an open system, the nutrient solution flows past the roots, and the solution is not recycled. In a closed system, the surplus nutrient solution is recovered, recharged and recycled through the system.
+=====We Tried 11 of the Most Popular Indoor Gardening Systems=====
+[https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-indoor-gardening-systems/ by WIRED]
+ Several years ago, I moved to a house on a quarter-acre lot on the outer edge of town, where residential development rubs up against undeveloped wildland. “My gardening dreams are finally coming true!” I thought. It took only three seasons of hard clay soil, deer, and persistent rabbits to disabuse me of the notion that outdoor gardening was ever going to happen for me. My gardening endeavors had to be moved indoors. I’ve had various tiny LED planter setups since then, but the latest large-scale indoor vertical gardens have had me intrigued. The ability to grow 20, 30, or even 40 veggies and fresh herbs, year-round, in a space smaller than a bookshelf? Sign me up!
+=====Hydroponic Grow Systems for Growing Vegetables=====
+[https://www.zone3vegetablegardening.com/post/hydroponic-growing-systems by Krista Green 15/4/24 ZONE 3 VEGETABLE GARDENING]
+ I purchased a hydroponic grow system 2.5 years ago now, and continue to love it so much!  Before growing hydroponically, I had tried to grow lettuce and herbs indoors in soil through the winter a few years in a row, but every time I ran into problems.  Aphids that kept re-appearing, fungus gnats, plants growing slowly, forgetting to water...  It never did seem to work well for me so I decided to go ahead and invest in a quality hydroponic growing system and haven't looked back since!  I couldn't be more please with how easy it is and how little time growing food in my hydroponic tower requires.
+=====10 Benefits of Hydroponics & Its Impact on Agriculture=====
+[https://www.edengreen.com/blog-collection/benefits-of-hydroponics by edengreen TECHNOLOGY]The first and most clear benefit of hydroponics is that this growing method needs no soil. Why does this matter? Land degradation is a
+ Serious problem facing agriculture and the world today. As soil degrades, it becomes more and more difficult to farm in it.
+Land degradation happens through both physical and chemical methods. Physical degradation relates to natural erosion and physical disturbance, as farming equipment may cause. Chemical degradation happens due to pollution and other types of contamination. Both kinds of degradation result in soil with fewer nutrients and less suited to growing healthy crops.
+Hydroponic crops don’t contribute to soil degradation, so they can help slow land degradation. These crops aren’t affected by the results of this crisis either since they don’t rely on healthy topsoil for their nutrients.
+=====Hydroponics at Home=====
+[https://extension.unh.edu/resource/hydroponics-home by Jonathan Ebba 8/23]
+ Whatever type of system is used, water levels must be maintained and roots must not dry out.  As plants take up water and release it through their leaves (transpiration), the water level in the system will drop and must be replenished.  You will need to monitor the water level in your system regularly.  When designing your system, think about whether roots might dry out with rising or falling water levels.
+Although water in the system is absolutely critical, some people put more importance on water quality than is necessary.  Use water that’s safe to drink for your hydroponics system.  Water from a well or from a municipal supply is fine.  A lot is made of water pH in hydroponics, and for commercial producers, correct pH is important to maximize uptake of micronutrients, but fine-tuning water pH can be difficult and expensive.  For home hydroponics a water pH between 5.5 and 7.0 is fine.
+As far as other elements dissolved in the water (minerals, “hardness”, chloride, etc.), a commercial producer will mix up exactly the nutrients needed for the crop so knowing the level of these nutrients already in the water will allow her to save money by including less of these.  You are likely to use a pre-formulated fertilizer, however, so knowing the concentration of plant nutrients already in your water will be of little value.
+=====How to Grow Hydroponic Plants=====
+[https://permies.com/t/144394/Grow-Hydroponic-Plants by Shir Gutman permies.com]
+ The premise is it uses no soil, and instead uses inert mediums such as rock wool, clay pebbles, sand, coconut hulls and others as the "soil" for the roots to grow in. There are also techniques that don't involve any mediums and the plant is held upright in a netted cup and the roots just grow in water. The water must be oxygenated and not allowed to go anaerobic. It requires buying special fertilizers that have all nutrients in a ionic or chelated form, ready to be taken up by the plants roots without the aid of microbial activity. There are microbial and fungal products on the market to put some biological activity in the water. That's my simple layman definition of the gist of how it works.
+=====Automated agriculture: Building a DIY hydroponic gardening system=====
+[https://www.viam.com/post/diy-hydroponic-gardening-system-build by Arielle Mella 16/9/24 VIAM]
+ Outdoor gardening and nurturing indoor plants have been a long-time hobby of mine. There's something truly refreshing about being surrounded by beautiful, lush greenery.
+My outdoor garden, in particular, has always been focused on flowers. I’ve carefully tended to a mix of annuals and perennials throughout the seasons, killing and bringing to life many species of flora over the years, trying to put the jungle in my concrete jungle apartment.
+=====How to build your own hydroponic system: a beginners guide=====
+[https://www.squaremilefarms.com/post/how-to-build-your-own-hydroponic-system-a-beginners-guide by SQUARE MILE FARMS 28/1/21]
+ Dish is Square Mile Farms’ Head Farmer. He’s spent the last year experimenting with growing 40+ types of vegetables, herbs and microgreens at our Paddington rooftop farm and in our office farm installations. Using his knowledge of building and maintaining indoor hydroponic systems he is on a mission to help London workers reconnect with their food by helping them grow it themselves!