Viktor Baras - Hydroponic Gardening Secrets: The Complete Beginners Guide to Learn How to Start Hydroponics from Scratch. Perfect Hydroponic System to Grow Your Fruit, Vegetable and Herbs.

Hydroponic Gardening Secrets:

The Complete Beginners Guide to Learn How to Start Hydroponics from Scratch. Perfect Hydroponic System to Grow Your Fruit, Vegetable and Herbs.

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Introduction

W elcome to Gardening Secrets , your all-in-one guide for designing, assembling, and growing the hydroponics garden of your dreams. Gardening has historically been a way for people to connect to their food and beautify their surroundings, provide fresh produce for their families, and as a healthy, productive hobby. But what if you have no place to put a traditional garden?

Hydroponics- the practice of growing plants without soil- can help you bring the outdoors inside with some simple equipment and a little know-how, and youve come to the right place to find it! If you have ever given thought to indoor growing, but youve never been sure where or how to get started, the comprehensive information youll find here will help you decide if hydroponics is right for you and choose a budget and a style thats in line with your needs.

Aside from space considerations, people grow hydroponic gardens for many other reasons, including mobility issues, a desire to add to an existing outdoor garden, local ordinances that limit the size of traditional gardens, or an innate curiosity about the practice. For those interested in horticulture, it can become an expansive hobby- hydroponics leaves a lot of leeway for experimenting with different nutrient mixes and growing different varieties and cultivars.

In this book, well go over a quick history of hydroponics, and give an overview of the different growing techniques. Youll also get the advice you need to help you choose the right hydroponics system to fit any space or budget, and give you the inspiration to design and build a garden that is user-friendly, economical, and aesthetically-pleasing. Well also address what type of supplies youll need to get your garden underway, and youll learn about seed selection, basic botany, how hydroponic systems can be adapted to meet the needs of a variety of plant species, and how to get your system up, running, and planted.

Youll also learn about the best ways to facilitate cleaning and maintaining your system, as well as how to schedule succession planting so that you will always have something green, growing, and ready to harvest for your enjoyment. We will explore ways that you can get the most out of your hydroponics system, including water testing, fertilizer applications, and adjusting your nutrient mixes and growing mediums. Youll also learn about some techniques for creating a garden journal to keep track of your planning, planting, and harvesting activities. Each chapter also contains helpful lists and recaps to help you stay organized as your progress through choosing, designing, building, planting, and maintaining your system.

It should be noted, no statements in this book should be considered to be medical advice, and readers should consult their health providers should they have any questions regarding the nutritional or medicinal benefits of hydroponically grown food and other plant matter. While an increasing amount of commercially available food may be produced hydroponically, a physician, internist, or dietician can help you make decisions about the benefits of home-grown hydroponic food.

Gardening should be fun, productive, and provide a boost to your mood and your health- and a solid hydroponics system can help you do that right in the comfort of your own home. If you think hydroponics is right for you and youre ready to take the plunge into the world of soilless growing, Gardening Secrets is here to take you from the first step of planning through a bountiful harvest, so lets get started!

Chapter 1: A Brief Overview of Hydroponics

H ydroponics is becoming increasing popular world-wide as a method of hobby gardening and mass food production. One of the vast advantages of hydroponic growing is that there is very little waste in a well-designed hydroponic system, and as technology advances, these hydroponic systems also become more efficient.

A Quick History of Hydroponics

W hile modern hydroponics has only been in development and use since the 1900s, there is some evidence that the famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon may have featured hydroponics in 600 B.C. Sir Francis Bacon, the father of the scientific method, also explored hydroponic growing in the 1600s, with extensive descriptions of his practices published posthumously in the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum .