Hydroponic Gardening

The way gardeners and greenhouse personnel are planting gardens is changing. Many of them are turning to hydroponic gardening in lieu of traditional gardening. If you know of it, are you interested in hydroponics?

Did you know that you could actually do hydroponic gardening instead of traditional gardening? If you want to know more, then you need to start looking at it and what it entails. When you closely examine hydroponic gardening, you’ll notice that there are two general types. They are:

- Medium culture
- Solution culture

When you look at the medium culture of hydroponic gardening, you’ll find that roots are still connected to a source for nutrients. What does this mean? It means that plants still need to be “planted” into an area that will allow them to get their nutrients in order to survive and grow. However, a look into the solution culture will show plants are hovering up above their nutrients solution. It means that plants do not need a pot of soil for them to thrive and grow.

A Look at Three Kinds of Solution Culture

When you look at the solution culture of hydroponics gardening, you’ll see it narrowed down further into three subcategories. These categories are:

- Aeroponics
- Continuous flow solution culture
- Static solution culture

The premise behind each subcategory under solution culture is identical to each other. How so? The plant must be suspended over the nutrient solution, which is given to the plant.

Solution Culture – Aeroponics

What is aeroponics in hydroponic gardening? This is the type of gardening in which the roots of plants are exposed to a solution filled with nutrients by way of drops or a fine mist. Plants who are frequently misted will thrive well to this sort of solution culture. The mist that is sprayed onto the plant holds the nutrients the plant needs. When it’s sprayed on, nutrients become absorbed into the plants by its roots thanks to the mist or droplets of water sticking to them.

Solution Culture – Continuous Flow Solution Culture

Unlike aeroponics, continuous flow solution culture is exactly as it states. This kind of hydroponic gardening solution continuously feeds nutrients to the plants by way of the plants container. This kind of solution is usually done for larger scaled hydroponic gardening areas that are usually done by some kind of mechanism.

Solution Culture – Static Solution Culture

When a plant is following the static solution culture, its solution can be depleted but added again to only where just some roots are touching it.

A Look at The Medium Culture of Hydroponic Gardening

When you look at medium culture, you’ll notice that there is a vast array of mediums that can replace soil for plants to grow in if you choose to do hydroponic gardening. What mediums can be used? To name a few, there are:

- Brick shards
- Clay pellets
- Gravel
- Mineral
- Perlite
- Rock Wool

While it doesn’t seem likely that plants can grow with these mediums, they have actually give roots stability along with giving the nutrient solution something for it to hold onto. You can create any kind of hydroponic gardening you’d like including a hydroponic herb garden or a vegetable garden.