Congratulations and thank you for sharing you awesome setup; You may inspire me. I only have outdoor soil grown plants right now!
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Congratulations and thank you for sharing you awesome setup; You may inspire me. I only have outdoor soil grown plants right now!
Hi Mike, I started with soil container gardens. Then moved to hydroponics back in 2013. I get so much more out of my gardens in the same space now.
more production output to multiple factors? X
Yes, the size of the plants and volume of edible food is double, sometimes more, than that of plants I would grow in soil.
I would grow the same tomato type, from seeds at the same time to test. The hydro plant would get to fruit weeks earlier, and produce more tomatoes per cluster that are more regular in size than the one in soil.
With lettuce and herbs, the leaves are more than double the size of what I had in soil and they grow faster so as you eat from the bottom leaves they are replacing faster to keep up with you.
You also use so much less water, only about 40% of what you would use to water the same amount of plants in soil. These are all reason that commercial farming of many crops are changing over to hydroponic greenhouses.
I have pictures of things I have grown from last season that I took on scales and with rulers to show the size. I will get them together for a post soon.
Incredible benefits...if I get the right infrastructure I'll surely go for it
Hey @mikeparker, just wanted to let you know I posted my next hydroponics article about my main outside garden system.
ooh thanks