Hydroponic Gardening and Your Greenhouse
Hydroponic gardening and greenhouses would have to be the perfect partnership. Hydroponic gardening is the most efficient form of gardening. The plants are given optimum nutrition and water so they grow better than if they were placed in soil.
Greenhouses help control the pests responsible for damaging and destroying crops. You can pest proof your greenhouse far more easily than you can pest proof the outdoors. You help optimise plant growth by removing pests and your crop yields will be higher.
Greenhouses also help control temperature so your plants can be kept at the perfect temperature to stimulate growth. Many plants will respond to controlled temperature with bumper crops. The fresh produce will also taste better.
Hydroponic gardening allows you to grow fewer plants to yield the same crop, as you would need to grow in soil.
This means that although your space is limited in a greenhouse, you will be able to grow more varieties of plants as you will be getting a higher yield per plant.
The initial cost of installing a greenhouse and a hydroponic system will be quickly balanced by the amount of money you save in growing your own fresh food. The hydroponic crops ripen a bit faster than your out door garden grown produce. This is because of the perfect growing conditions.
You can have a lot of fun experimenting with hydroponics once you have learned how the system works. It is a good way of teaching children about how plants grow, reproduce and what part nutrition has in plant growth.
The best thing about hydroponic greenhouse vegetables is the taste. If you grow them for no other reason, you will grow them for the taste.
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