Hydroponics Made Easy

Hydroponics is a wonderful way to grow if soil is limited, or you want to provide your family with good, clean, and freshly grown veggies. Hydroponics are great if you have a small place like an apartment or a studio. I like it because I have back problems and I can place my plants on a table or stand at the right height as to not affect my back. Many people think that it is too complicated and expensive; but they couldn't be more wrong. I'm not sure if everyone did this in school, but I remember growing beans in a cup with a paper towel in the window of my class room. The bean grew tall and strong. I was so happy and intrigued as to the nature of what was going on in the cup.

Later we moved the bean to a pot filled with a soilless mixture (more on soilless mixtures later), it's like soil but with no organic material; like guano, seaweed, or any other fertilizer. My teacher made a bucket of organic tea, where she took organics; guano, seaweed, etc. and placed them into a old pillow case, tied it off and submerged it into the bucket filled with water for about two days. The color of the water darkened and we added it half and half to water in a spray bottle, and misted the plant every day. I later took that bean plant home and killed it. By accident of course, but I learned the hard lesson of 'no light no life'. Oops, but no matter, it was a lesson that had to be learned. I cried for days over that bean plant, I think I even named it; silly kid. Needless to say I learned the basics of Hydroponics in the first grade, I will try to keep it as simple as my first grade teacher.