Essential Facts About Hydroponics

Hydroponics, the soilless solution, is a game-changer for home gardeners without outdoor space. It enables you to cultivate fresh produce and empowers you to take control of your living situation and create a thriving garden, regardless of your living conditions. This sense of empowerment is a crucial benefit of hydroponics.

This technology allows us to enjoy the entertainment of home farming while providing fresh vegetables and herbs for the kitchen. In fact, hydroponics, a form of soilless agriculture, is among the oldest systems. Soilless agriculture is growing plants without soil, using a nutrient-rich solution or a medium like gravel or perlite to support the roots.

 Agriculture is based on using water as a living medium for plants without needing soil. It also uses a carefully balanced mix of nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other essential elements, for plant growth, which are dissolved and delivered directly to the roots in the water.

Hydroponics has several advantages and benefits.

1- Hydroponics is a viable solution to a variety of agricultural issues, providing many benefits and advantages that will be discussed in the sections that follow:

- Allow hydroponics for people who do not own gardens by planting at home. It is a viable option for poor or barren backyard terrain.

- Drought is no longer a problem in hydroponics because plants absorb only the water they need and reject the rest.

- When using soil in agriculture, we save about 80% of the water needed for irrigation when using soilless farming.

Plants grow perfectly and quickly in water. Hydroponics eliminates the problem of unwanted plants and reduces the risk of bacterial growth.

2- Because the submerged areas are much smaller than those on land, they require much less labor and maintenance.

- It is easy to use fertilizers and pesticides in hydroponics.

- Hydroponics, unlike soil farming, does not require electricity to obtain water.

- This allows us to have complete control over planting and harvesting dates.

- Control the acidity of the medium as well.

3- How to grow hydroponic plants in your home.

"Practicing hydroponics within the confines of the home."

•  Hydroponics does not require energy to fetch water like soil farming.
• It enables us to have reasonable control over planting and harvesting dates.
• Also controls the acidity of the medium

4- How to grow hydroponics at home.

- To perform hydroponics inside the garden, at home, or even on the rooftops, the following steps must be followed:

• Choosing the right place in the house to do hydroponics.
• The installation of the system in which the planting will take place consists of two basins, one of which we put the nutrients needed for the plant, and the other we empty the water after it leaves the system.

• In addition to the necessary pipes, according to the distance between the two basins, a small pump is required to transfer water between them, and the process can be done manually using simple hydroponics.

• Bring pots or containers containing gravel to install seedlings.
• We change the water twice weekly to prevent salts from accumulating around the plants' roots. This involves draining the nutrient solution from the system, replacing it with fresh water, and then adding the necessary nutrients back into the solution.

• You must also commit to adding the nutrients needed for the plant according to its type. 

     What are the plants that grow in a hydroponic system?  

    - Most plants in hydroponics can grow without soil with some clay pebbles, and the following are the most suitable plants for hydroponics:

• Sweet and hot pepper-lettuce- • spinach-• Option• cauliflower• beans most herbs

• Roses

Reading Also

ِAB Hydroponics