Publisher's Synopsis
They laughed at you each time you talked about growing your plants hydroponically, but not when your crops started growing!
If you want to master the art and science of creating a cheap, and amazing garden using hydroponics, even if you don't have a backyard, this is the book for you. The average person knows little if anything about hydroponics; however, the practice of growing plants without soil has been known and used for more than 1000 years.Real hydroponic culture generally means growing plants in a nutrient solution using no soil or other rooting medium, although today almost all of the many different methods of growing plants without soil employ various types of inert materials for a rooting medium, such as gravel, perlite, vermiculite, or others.
The first attempts to grow plants without soil were documented in ancient Babylon and also in the Aztec civilization of ancient Mexico. Even the famous explorer Marco Polo documented this practice in the Chinese Empire. More recently, in World War II, the United States extensively used hydroponics to furnish its troops with fresh vegetables in places where there was no soil available, or the proper conditions to grow using conventional agriculture. And Still, The Average Person Ignores The Power Of These Techniques! The modern world, now with more than seven billion people, a number which is constantly growing, has been forced to use this technology to fulfill the food needs of the population without taking up more of the earth's precious land and resources, and the majority of the modern food industry is now closely related to hydroponics. The good news is that with modern technology, hydroponics has never been so simple to implement!
With HYDROPONICS DIY you will be able to set up your own Hydroponic system quickly, whether you are a professional grower or a first time hobbyist, it doesn't matter, with the detailed explanations contained in this book in just a little time you will have your personal greenhouse ready to produce. HYDROPONICS DIY will teach you how to set up the greenhouse, how to set up the irrigation system so that it can be automatically controlled, how to deal with heating and cooling, and how to control natural sunlight if you have it available. And there is more.
Once you have created the hardware, you will need to know how to run it properly. HYDROPONICS DIY will teach you how to deal with poor quality water (if that's what you have in your area), how to create your own mixture of nutrients, and it gives some proven formulas useful for the most common types of culture, also, it will teach you how to take care of your crop and what to do in the case when things go wrong.
Dealing with fungi, viruses, insects, and other diseases will never be a problem when you use the information contained in this book, and, as a bonus, you will receive tons of tips and tricks based on years of experience.
This will save you lots of money, time and frustration by not making those silly mistakes, if only someone had told you before!! Should you not be interested in growing tomatoes or cucumbers, and perhaps you prefer flowers, that's good, there is still something I can teach you, because with hydroponics you can grow almost anything you want anywhere you want. Don't just hang around, GRAB ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED NOW to start your own hydroponic system tomorrow.
