If you are interested in building a complete and cheap system of homemade hydroponics, this article will interest you.
So where to start? Let's start at the beginning.
Hydroponic systems have been around for centuries. The Aztecs designed floating rafts covered with earth on which they planted food crops. The land was taken from the bottom of the lake so it was loaded with nutrients and the roots of the crops hung in the water lake.
These rafts would only float until the time of harvest. It has even been suggested that the famous Babylonian Gardens were made with hydroponic systems.
Simple homemade hydroponics systems can be built entirely on your own. They can be as simple as a glass jar, an aquarium pump, and some plant nutrients, or they can consist of a 5-gallon cooler, an aquarium pump, nutrients, and something for plants to float, such as Styrofoam.
Or it can be as complex as a water pump on a periodicly pumping timer in the nutrient solution to groups of plants arranged in a container.
In other words, once you get past the idea that plants need soil to grow properly you can build your own homemade hydroponics system. The sky is the limit!
Just think of the soil only as a means of fixing a plant – it is the mineral salts mixed with the soil that plants need to grow.
We hope you can build your own homemade hydroponics system, for more information about hydroponics visit the following link.
Hydroponics
Authors: Val
