7 BENEFITS OF HYDROPONIC GARDENING

Is hydroponics right for me?
Good questions to ask, especially when you want to dip your toes into hydroponics.
Read and complete the post, maybe you will immediately decide to start planting hydroponics.

Hydroponics, compared to plants grown on land, allows you to regulate the amount of nutrients that plants can receive. Because you provide nutrients to plants directly, you can control plant growth by varying the amount of nutrients you provide. Generally, hydroponic plants can grow faster and have much higher yields than plants grown on the ground. Therefore, it allows you to grow a large number of plants without much effort and cost, and get great results.

Benefits of growing hydroponics:

1. No soils
Hydroponics has been regarded as a future farm for growing food for astronauts in space (where there is no soil) by NASA.

2. Better use space and location, even in small apartments!
Plant roots usually spread and spread to find food, and oxygen in the soil. This does not happen in hydroponics, where the roots are drowned in a tank full of oxygenated nutrient solutions and direct contact with important minerals.

3. Grow indoors, all year - every climate, any season

As in greenhouses, hydroponic farmers can have complete control over the climate - temperature, humidity, intensification of light, composition of air. In this sense, you can grow food throughout the year regardless of the season.

4. Grow plants up to 10 times faster
Plants are placed in ideal conditions, while nutrients are provided in sufficient quantities, and come into direct contact with the root system. Thus, plants no longer waste valuable energy to find diluted nutrients in the soil. Instead, they divert all their focus on fruit growth and production.

5. Effective use of water and nutrition

In hydroponics, you have 100% control of the water and nutrients (food) that plants need. Plants that grow hydroponically can only use 10% of water compared to those grown on land. In this method, water is recirculated. Also, nutrients are conserved in the tank, so there is no loss or change in nutrients such as in the soil.

6. No weeds
If you have grown on the ground, you will understand how annoying weeds to your garden. This is one of the most time-consuming tasks for gardeners. Weeds are mostly related to the soil. So remove the soil, and all weed disturbances disappear.

7. Less use of insecticides, and herbicides
And like weeds, getting soil rids helps make your plants less susceptible to soil-borne pests such as birds, gophers, groundhogs; and disease. Because you don't use the soil and while weeds, pests and plant diseases are greatly reduced, and less chemicals used.