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Hydroponics Made Easy :Setting Up Your Own Home Garden

November 01, 2009 By: Brian Longmore Category: Gardens - Hydroponics

Traditional gardening methods require the use of soil to grow any kind of terrestrial plant. Whether you’re growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, herbs, or other crops, soil is absolutely vital to ensure that your plants get all the nutrients they require to grow and thrive. However, by using Hydroponics, it is now possible to grow plants without using any kind of soil.

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What Is Hydroponics

The term Hydroponics is actually a combination of two Greek words namely ‘Hydro’ which means water, and ‘Ponos’ which means labor. Thus, the method of growing plants using only water (a liquid nutrient solution), and no solid medium such as soil for supporting the roots, is known as Hydroponics.   (more…)