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.
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