Hydroponic Vegetable Gardening
What You Need to Know
The first is that it's not overly difficult to do this kind of thing if you're prepared to follow specific instructions and recipes. You also have to test your water regularly and adjust things. This is a tinkerer's dream - messing about constantly to make sure things are "just right".
The upside is that plants do indeed grow quite quickly in this kind of simple home-built, do-it-yourself hydroponic system.
The downside is that there is very little room for error. Mess up once or (maybe) twice with water acidity and you have wilted plants. They're not short of water, they're just reacting to the wrong chemistry.
Bottom line:
I managed to kill a pepper plant, weaken a basil and tototally stunt two bean plants because I made a mistake in the amount of fertilizer I used. It happened overnight and the plants weren't happy afterwards.
It's fairly simple but if you prefer the luxury of having some leeway in your gardening, you're going to want to stick to soil or see below the video
Video
An Alternate System
AeroGrow is a automated system that takes all the guesswork and problems out of hydroponic gardening. It comes with a full lighting system so you can grow vegetables and herbs all winter long.
It comes with it's own nutrient and growth systems so you can actually achieve a crop with no experience.
If you want to grow your own vegetables over the winter but you're not overly garden-oriented or technology-minded, this is going to be your answer. Check it out here by clicking on the picture
Click here to ask about hydroponic vegetable gardening
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