I’ve been debating on buying a hyrdoponic herb garden system like AeroGarden or making a homemade hydroponic garden.
I think the system is easier. Why? All the guess work is taking out of it. Follow the instructions, plant the seeds, plug it in and you are pretty much done. Just keep the lights on as instructed, monitor the flow of water, add nutrients and that’s it.
A homemade hyrdoponic herb garden, though simple to put together - requires putting it together. That’s a little to intensive for me. Plus I would have be really careful about mold settling in unwanted places, getting the amount of water and nutrients just right, and it being a general eyesore in my kitchen.
I just couldn’t put something together as nice as this.
Hydroponic Herb Garden
Getting starting with your hydroponic herb garden can be incredibly easy. Like this article I read (see below), getting started can be done with products you have around the house already.
Well - almost.
Here’s the list of necessities:
14 Gallon Rubbermaid Tub - make sure it’s opaque. If light gets through, you’ll have algae problems. Something like $6.
Air stones - these are the bubblers for aquariums. I used 3 big round ones.
$3 each. A valve for the 3 air stones. About $4.
An aquarium air pump. I already had an extra one of these. However, they’re cheap too.
Air tubing. Another $4. 6 Net baskets - I ordered these from Hydro Harry’s a few weeks before I actually built this.
Rockwool - Also ordered from Hydro Harry’s
Nutrient. This stuff gets mixed 3 teaspoons per gallon to make the nutrient bath.
Basically, the plants sit in plastic baskets filled with rockwool (an inert, lightweight material that holds onto moisture). Those are suspended just barely into a solution of water and a whole pile of nutrients. At the bottom of the nutrient broth are airstones (from aquariums) that pump oxygen into the nutrient bath and the roots of the plants. This gives the plant roots all that they need: nutrients, water and oxygen.
For your own hydroponic herb garden - the hardest decision may be where to put it.
Thanks to
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ProgressiveGardening.org | A lot of people are surprised that a full sized tomato plant can grow in a small pot without any soil! Carl Anderson of Virginia Hydroponics shows how easy it is to grow fresh cut herbs, tantalizing vegetables, and fabulous flowers, all year long, with hydroponics gardening! This video is brought to by the good folks at ProgressiveGardening.org!
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DIY Hydroponics garden. Hydroponics is not a new development. It has been around since nearly the beginning of recorded history. That wonder of the ancient world known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was an exercise in hydroponics and rice has been grown hydroponically for centuries.
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