Introduction To Hydroponics

Hydroponics comes from the Greek words meaning Hydro ("Water") and Ponos ("labour") literally meaning " water working")

Hydroponics’ basically means growing plants in a nutrient rich solution! The use of Hydroponic growing is simply just a more effective way of providing your plant with food and water than traditional methods! The science of Hydroponics’ proves that soil is not required for plant growth but certain elements, minerals and nutrients are! Soil is/was simply the holder of these nutrients and a place where traditionally plant roots live and provide support for the plant structure!!
Hydroponic plants are grown on trellises or containers (Hydroponic Kits) and can be set up to look exactly like your traditional garden!! Except with 1 little difference, the plant roots hang in a nutrient enriched solution instead of dirt! Thus providing the plant with a constant supply of food in a relative stress free environment leaving the plant to thrive!! As soil has been eliminated all soil borne disease have been effectively cut out, leaving the plant stronger and healthier therefore producing better quality and bigger size yield!!
All plants can be grown hydroponically but as usual some do it better than others!!Hydroponic growing is ideal for crop bearing plants such as cucumbers,lettuce's,chilli's,beans,tamatoes,peppers,herbs and flowering plants! Most hobbyist Hydroponic gardeners plant crops similar to what they would of done in a traditional garden!!
Methods for Hydroponic growing

1)Ebb and Flow method
2)Nutrient Film Technique(NFT)
3)Drip System
4)Passive system

These is by no means the definitive list of Hydroponic growing methods just in my personal opinion the easiest and quickest to set up and get started with
Happy Growing