Indoor Hydroponic Gardening

If you are someone who loves gardening, but lives in a climate with a short-lived fertility season, then an indoor hydroponic garden is the perfect alternative to your dream of having a blossoming garden outdoors. Before proceeding to other details, let us first learn what hydroponic gardening is all about. Hydroponic gardening is a year-round, productive and pesticide-free way to grow fruits, herbs, vegetables and flowers, in a flow of nutrient-based water, instead of soil. A hydroponic garden can be placed either indoors or outdoors, to suit your requirements. The gardening practice on a hydroponic garden, placed indoors, is called indoor hydroponic gardening. In case you are interested in the same, then the tips and ideas given below would be quite handy.

 

 

Normally, indoor hydroponic gardening comprises of the following things as its chief components - a growing tray, a reservoir, a water-controlled pump and a pump to supply nutrients and oxygen. Since hydroponic gardening doesn’t require soil as the anchoring medium, an inert soil-free medium like fiber, sand or stone is substituted with it, to support the roots of the plant in the hydroponic system. Care should be taken that the hydroponic medium is porous, so as to allow proper retention of air and water.

 

While maintaining a hydroponic garden indoors, ensure that you provide the required fertilizers and high quality micro-nutrients, to foster productivity of your plants. Nutrients like sulfur, magnesium, cobalt, calcium, iron, boron, zinc, manganese and copper can be used to engender maximum yield. Another important thing that requires consideration is the PH balance of the plant. Make sure that there are no fluctuations in the PH balance, as it can affect the nutrition-absorbing capacity of the plant and thus disturb its overall health. The above mentioned components are also applicable in case of outdoor hydroponic gardening, but with some variations.

 

Maximum Yield

The plants in an indoor hydroponic garden grow faster, as compared to those in the outdoor gardens, because they are given very easy access to nutrients, food and water.

Indoor hydroponic gardening enables you to best utilize the limited space in the premises of your home. This helps you to keep a vigil on the growth and nourishment of each and every plant growing there, in case you are gardening on a large scale.

In an indoor hydroponic garden, the plants require very low maintenance, as they are grown in a limited space, where they get all the nutrients quite sufficiently.

According to the latest study, the fruits and vegetables growing in indoor hydroponic gardens are tastier than those grown in soil, according to the conventional method. Moreover, such food items are healthier as well, because they contain more vitamins and other nutrients.

 

The other benefits if indoor hydroponic gardening are that it is environment-friendly and pesticide-free. At the same time, it involves low water requirement and low carbon emissions. Last, but not the least, it helps maintain high level of sustainability and balanced plant growth.