Growing food is becoming a priority for more and more people. Homegrown food tastes better, is healthier, and is a lot more affordable. However, you might not be so lucky to own land or the land you own is frozen half of the year. Growing food the Kratky Hydroponics Way is one of many ways to grow ...
Hydroponic Gardening
N.F.T. Downspout Hydroponics Setup
We have been growing food in the N.F.T. Downspout hydroponics now for a few years. It is our preferred choice for indoor gardening. In this post, we are showing you how to set up a simple NFT downspout Hydroponics system. There are different types of hydroponic systems: Water Culture, Ebb and ...
Planting a Hydroponic Garden
All growing starts with planting. Planting a hydroponic garden is no different from conventional soil planting. We love to start our plants from seeds, it is part of the gardening fun. With discovering hydroponics and indoor gardening a whole new gardening world opened up to us. Now planting a ...
7 Reasons to Grow an Aeroponic Tower Garden – Review
With the growing interest in gardening, the Tower Garden has gain popularity as well. Most reviews you will find are from distributors who want to sell a Tower Garden, and that's understandable. We are not distributors, we are growers. After growing the Tower Garden by Juice Plus for many years we ...
Lemon tree in the indoor garden on Video
An indoor garden is a place where winter does not exist, and that's quite something when you live in a cold climate. Indeed, it is a happy place. Being happy seems to be most important, as one of my recent books says: "You must allow yourself to be the being that life has caused you to become if ...
NFT downspout Hydroponics system upgrade
Nutrient Film Technique (N.F.T.) Downspout Hydroponics is an exceptionally simple hydroponics setup. Last winter we built a NFT downspout Hydroponics system to grow lettuce indoors all throughout the winter. We share a how-to here. We are very pleased how the system works, of all the other ...
High Pressure Aeroponics Guide
Recently we described our NFT downspout hydroponics system which you can read about here. Now imagine having a large box for the plant's roots that are now suspended in the air, and the nutrient-rich water solution is being sprayed onto the roots in a form of a fine mist. What you will get is called ...
GARDEN UPDATE – Winter 2019 ON VIDEO
Winter 2019 has been good to us and now it is time for a garden update - winter 2019 on video. We do these updates to encourage you and us to keep growing. To see what has worked well and what needs improvement and to learn from it. You can see last years' winter garden update here. During the ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
Growing the Tower Garden in Cold Climate
We are Tower Garden growers in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada – elevation 1,037 m (3,402 ft). It’s cold here! The short growing season and the cool, short summers were the main reasons we got into Tower Garden gardening and through the Tower Garden into hydroponics. We ...