Hydroponics - A not so new approach!

Have you been held back from home farming and gardening because of

constrained spaces?

Were you short of vertical height or required land?

Did you worry about excess use of soil?

Well, here is your solution Hydroponic systems, these system allows you to

make one vertical hydroponic house {max 110 plants (vegetables too)}.

What is the catch? Will you need high end fertilizers or pesticides or quality

soil? Well, not at all, hydroponics is a technique developed 600 BC, the origins

of which have been traced to present day Iraq (Babylon), China, and Aztec

India. It was later brought to attention by the Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci.

And this is not all, you cut your water requirements by 90% and land

requirements by 75%, in both commercial and household farming.

Yes! we are talking huge numbers here.

Hydroponics proved that plants do not need soil to thrive but some important

minerals and nutrients namely nitrogen, phosphorous, calcium, potassium,

magnesium, iron, boron, chlorine to grow.

How would you know that you are doing it wrong or right in a hydroponic

farming? It’s quite easy, if they turn yellow it means your solution is mineral

deficient if it turns dark it means your solution is mineral saturated.

Do you think sky is the limit for hydroponics? Absolutely not, with our Mars

exploration and colonisation (let’s hope Elon figures it out soon) and the

restrictions on soil due to its weight and barren and infertile foreign planets

hydroponic systems are the future!

• Nishita Patil