Hydroponics
• Hydroponic Growing Today
• The Clear Advantage
• A Living Community
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Searching For Roots?
Hydroponic growing simply refers to gardening without soil, but it is also a story of connection: roots to growing media, nutrients, and water, for instance. When you convert nonarable space into lush verdancy with an indoor hydroponics system, you connect yourself: to your food source, which you now control; to your planet, no matter how far from the ground you live; to history, and those people who first grew plants with hydroponics. The ancient Babylonians and their Hanging Gardens, but also the ancient Chinese, the ancient Egyptians, and the ancient Aztecs.
Hydroponic Growing Today
In modern times, those who grow hydroponic crops span the full range of the technological spectrum. In regions suffering from poverty, drought, famine, and depleted soil, farmers use hydroponics to summon abundant fruits, vegetables, and herbs from limited resources. Meanwhile, NASA scientists experiment with the most modern methods, in anticipation of an era when explorers will subsist on hydroponically grown crops coaxed from the media of other worlds.
The Clear Advantage
For city living, indoor hydroponics garden and the magic of hydroponic growing allow you to reclaim dead space from the urban landscape and transform lifeless areas into nature’s domain with low impact and high yield. Hydro growing requires substantially less room than conventional gardening and uses between 70 and 90% less water. Pesticide use is drastically decreased and dangerous fertilizer runoff, which threatens life in our waterways and oceans, is eliminated.
Hydroponics gardens offer a long list of advantages over dirt gardening. The systems are lightweight and easy to set up. There’s no backbreaking tilling or weeding, and no need to worry about the mineral content of your soil. Whether you choose a drip irrigation system or an ebb and flow (flood and drain) system, swapping your played-out solution for fresh nutrients is fast, neat, and easy. People have known how to grow hydroponic food for thousands of years, and new solutions are discovered every day.
A Living Community
Questions or problems? We have answers. Whether you’re comparing lights, nutrients, fans, timers, pumps, filtration systems, tubes, or fittings Bronx Hydro (with brick and mortar locations in the Bronx and Brooklyn) has solutions. Wondering what’s truly organic, how to maintain the pH of your system, or which medium or additive is right for you? Overwhelmed choosing amongst vermiculite and DE, Perlite and coconut husks, or just trying to figure out how to sterilize and reuse your Rockwool? Join our community of like-minded hydroponic growing enthusiasts and start putting down roots.
