Plant Gardens 101

We’ve all heard about community gardens, but in the city like New York there is so little space for serious farmers that the sustainable urban foods seems next to impossible. Now imagine creating a farm in the middle of a highly urbanized city.Serious urban farming with the aid of hydroponics systems and taking this it into the roof tops of buildings is a viable way for a city to become sustainable. Roughly speaking, there is something like 5,000 hectares of unused roof top space in New York City. If we were to grow vegetables using hydroponics in all those 5,000 of those hectares we could grow enough vegetables to feed something like 15 million people. Imagine a city like New York with a huge catering industry of food that would really impact greatly the sustainable urban food in the city. The secret to this ultra modern farming is hydroponics system that runs in greenhouses which nourishes the plants without wasting any resources. Also having a weather station in the city is of great advantage in using hydroponics farming in the city. (more…)

As what most people would say, growing plants is a skill and great skills comes form experience. You need to have some experience before you can start growing plants successfully. But with NaturesHydro grow boxes, only a little experience is needed to actually start growing plants such as medical marijuana. A lot of marijuana growers know how hard it is to become successful in growing marijuana the traditional way. With all the hassle of monitoring and all the efforts in maintaining with the absence of control over these things, it is possible that there is a big room for errors which would result to failure. But when you switch to using NaturesHydro grow boxes in growing your herbs, not only that you will become successful but you can also have better yield compared to traditional soil growing methods. With NaturesHydro grow boxes you will be able to accelerate the growth of your medical marijuana and optimize its full potential. This is because a NaturesHydro grow box has all the accessories, like hydroponics system, plant light, nutrients, CO2 ventilation, that made it capable of controlling and customizing the growing environment to make it suitable for marijuana to grow and yield optimally. (more…)

Are you familiar with the Hydroponics system? It is actually a process which instead of using the soil where to grow your plants you are using water. The use of hydroponic gives a lot of advantages. It is because the process gives you the best natural source for both your urban and indoor gardening. There are things that you need for this process such like led grow light, grow box, and hydroponic system and more to start your indoor garden. Indulging with the hydroponics way of gardening can give you benefit as well like giving more valuable time of your day instead of consuming more of your time cultivating your traditional gardening. You can have more leisure time instead of focusing more of your time in your garden. While using the grow box can save you an average space of about 6 times compare to the normal size of a soil garden operation. Most of the reason why people never use much the hydroponics system for their gardening is because they were trying to think that it is difficult to learn the process. They never know that indulging with the hydroponics has a step by step instruction to assure you that you are doing the right step. Another thing that makes hydroponic advantageous compare to the traditional way of gardening is that your hydroponic plants can be grown the whole year round while plants grown in traditional way of gardening would rely on nature which is a long way process. (more…)

Buying your first hydroponic grow box is considerably a tough decision to make. This article will serve as your guide to give you an idea and help you decide on what kind of grow box you would want to purchase. There are a lot of factors to consider if you are planning to buy one for your own. First you have to have the budget and consider how much you are willing to spend. Because hydroponic grow boxes comes in different prices, it is practical to know the specifications you want so that you’ll be able to manage your budget well. Also consider the quality and durability because you would definitely not want to spend more on a hydroponic grow box just for it to break so easily. If you are thinking why there are expensive grow boxes and less-expensive ones, this is because those grow boxes that costs much usually have more features and can accommodate more plants. (more…)

By definition, a cabinet is an upright, cupboard-like storage area with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects. It is an enclosure that has a front hinged door used for housing anything from clothes to appliances and other household stuffs. A grow cabinet on the other hand is just like a cabinet that functions as a storage space but with the absence of shelves, drawers, or compartments. It is only made to look like a cabinet on the outside but inside it’s a whole different thing.

With the word “grow,” we already have a slight idea of what grow cabinet is. Well, it is a grow box that looks like a cabinet that acts as a storage space and growing area for plants. The interior of grow cabinet is specifically customized and designed to create an artificial ecosystem for a plant to grow in. a grow cabinet comprises of a cabinet type of box, plant light, vents, hydroponics system, CO2 generator, odor eliminator, and a temperature monitor. All of these components are essential for grow cabinet to become an enclosed space that is suitable for plants to grow. The size of grow cabinet, which is usually small, makes it terrific for confined spaces. It can easily fit to any corners of the house. Ideally, grow cabinet is practical to use when you are trying to save some space in your place. (more…)

Home hydroponics is the best and most productive hobby you can think of if you are fund of growing plants. With home hydroponics you can plant anything you want from vegetable, fruits, flowers, and herbs. If ever you are thinking of setting up your own home hydroponics, it is practical to know first what it is all about and the advantages and benefits you can have by doing such hobby. Also you need to learn its basics for you to get a head start with your home hydroponics gardening. So here are some of the advantages that home hydroponics made available for you. There is no need to water your plants often, thus saves you more time and effort and reduces the incidence of having plants dying over lack of water or excess of water. A plant that grows in a home hydroponics system is know to grow faster and yields much better. You can save a lot of space also with home hydroponics system because it is compact and can accommodate many plants in just a small area. (more…)

At present, the concept of hydroponic drip irrigation system is somehow starting to gain ground among garden enthusiasts. Questions about it are also starting to build up, which is why this article is written to provide you the answers to some of the questions that have been raised. This article will also help you have a better understanding of what hydroponic drip is all about. So what is a hydroponic drip system? There are a lot of types of hydroponic techniques and the drip irrigation system is one of it. The drip irrigation system is the most commonly used hydroponic technique, because of its simplicity and effectiveness in plant cultivation. In this system, plant nutrition is provided on a pre-determined basis by the use of a timer that controls the submerged pump. This pump is connected to a main tube that further branches out into smaller tubes from where plant nutrients are being distributed unto the base of each plant. The nutrients will then tickle into the grow media, into the roots and finally into the reservoir. To get a better picture of it, just think of your home’s drip system and add a little bit of twist of hydroponics to it then you have a hydroponic drip irrigation system. (more…)

Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions which is a combination of water and fertilizers. Hydroponic gardening is done with or without the use of artificial medium such as sand, gravel, vermiculite, rockwool, peat, coir, sawdust to provide mechanical support for the plants. Liquid hydroponic systems have no other supporting medium for the plant roots while aggregate systems have a solid medium of support. Hydroponic systems that aradvantages of using hydroponic system in hydroponic gardening include high-density maximum crop yield, crop production where no suitable soil exists, a virtual indifference to ambient temperature and seasonality, more efficient use of water and fertilizers, minimal use of land area, suitability for mechanization, and disease or pest control. The major advantage of hydroponic gardening compared to field grown produce is the isolation of the crop from the soil, which often has problems of diseases, pests, salinity, poor structure and/or drainage. (more…)

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The earliest food production in greenhouses was possibly the growing of off-season cucumbers under “transparent stone” for the Roman Emperor Tiberius during the first century. The technology was rarely employed, if at all, during the following 1500 years. During the 1600′s several techniques were used to protect horticultural crops against the cold. These included glass lanterns, bell jars, cold frames and hot beds covered with glass. In the seventeenth century, low portable wooden frames covered with an oiled translucent paper were used to warm the plant environment much as plastic row covers do today. In Japan, straw mats were used in combination with oil paper to protect crops from the severe natural environment. Greenhouses in France and England during the same century were heated by manure and covered with glass panes. The first glass house built in the 1700′s, used glass on one side only as a sloping roof. Later in the century, glass was used on both sides. The glasshouse was used for fruit crops such as melons, grapes, peaches and strawberries and only rarely for vegetable production. The developers of this new technology kept market profitability in mind: they produced crops which appealed to the wealthy and privileged, the only people who could afford the luxury of fresh fruit produced out of season in greenhouses. Greenhouse food production was not fully established until the introduction of polyethylene. In the U.S., the first use of polyethylene as a greenhouse cover was in 1948, when Professor Emery Myers Emmert at the University of Kentucky, used the less expensive material in place of more expensive glass. (more…)

Hydroponics is a relatively new technology, evolving rapidly since its inception 70 years ago. From its origins in academic research, to its utilization in industry and government, hydroponics has found many new applications. It is a versatile technology, appropriate for both developing countries and high-tech space stations. Hydroponics technology can efficiently generate food crops from barren desert sand and desalinated ocean water, in mountainous regions too steep to farm, on city rooftops and concrete schoolyards and in arctic communities. In highly populated tourist areas where skyrocketing land prices have driven out traditional agriculture, hydroponics can provide locally grown high-value specialty crops such as fresh salad greens, herbs and cut flowers. Like manufacturing, agriculture tends to move toward higher-technology, more capital-intensive solutions to problems. Hydroponics is highly productive and suitable for automation. (more…)

A grow closet is a type of grow box which is designed to look and function like an ordinary closet. The only thing that differs grow closet from an ordinary closet is that it has these customizations that would make it function as an indoor growing box for plants. In other words, it’s a closet where you can grow your plants. Grow closets are usually small, compact and lightweight. It is meant to be compact for the purpose of saving space and to be able to fit it anywhere inside your house.

Just like any other grow box, a grow closet can have a hydroponics system or simply just have a space where you can put your pot of plant. It has plant lights installed to serve as artificial sunlight for plants, lightproof reflector interior wall to keep the light inside and maximize the light exposure of your plants, and it also has a ventilation system to ensure a cool temperature inside the grow closet. Basically, these are the common parts of a grow closet. There are also grow closets that has extra special features installed in it such as hydroponics grow system, odor eliminators, wireless temp humidity gauges, total dissolved solids meter, and CO2 generators. All these mentioned parts are special features that would make your grow closet more conducive for plants to grow. Also these parts are installed to make your indoor gardening experience more convenient and hassle free. (more…)

There are millions of hobbies you can think about these days and one of which is home hydroponics. With home hydroponics you’ll be able to enjoy it as a hobby and at the same time become productive. You will enjoy planting whatever you want from vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs. If you are planning to install your own home hydroponics system, make your first move now by reading articles and studying how things work with home hydroponics.

Just to inspire you more with the idea, here are some of the benefits you’ll be able to get from this kind of hobby:

1. First of all, there is no need to use soil to grow your plants. In this case, you will no longer have a problem on where to grow your plants since you can install your home hydroponics system anywhere you want in your house.

2. You will have no hassle over watering your plants form time to time. This actually saves you more time and energy.

3. Plants that grow in a home hydroponics system grow extremely faster and yield more, because nutrients are already provided for the plants. (more…)

Hydroponic is very common these days that even a 9-year-old child already knows what hydroponic is. In home gardening settings there is what we call automated home gardening with the use of hydroponics. This home hydroponic system is a gardening system that allows us to grow plants without the use of soil. With home hydroponic system you can also grow plants without them actually ever seeing real sunlight. It uses plant light to impact and make use of photosynthesis which is the process by which a plant takes in light and turns it into a fuel. A home hydroponic system can grow any kinds of plants from edible to non-edible plants, from seasonal to off-season plants, and even plants that only grow in certain climates. (more…)