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Hydroponic Gardening

Hydroponic Fertilizer: The Key to Indoor Gardening

Hydroponic Fertilizer: The Key to Indoor Gardening

As we approach the tenth anniversary of our hydroponic journey and indoor gardening, it's an ideal time to reflect on the innovations, trials, and transformations that we have encountered in our pursuit of this home gardening method. A decade ago, we were newcomers, just beginning to dabble in the ...

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Growing Cucumbers Indoors

Growing Cucumbers Indoors

Cucumbers are a really fun plant to grow. They are so quick that one can almost see the growth. Growing cucumbers indoors allows us to grow them in the off-season and also during a cooler summer. A win-win in a cold climate.  Indoor cucumbers in our experience grow fast and expire fast. It's ...

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Start growing food the the Kratky hydroponics way today! It is a simple and fun container gardening method suited for off-the-grid and water saving growing.

Growing Food the Kratky Hydroponics Way

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 ...

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N.F.T. (Nutrient Film Technique) Downspout Hydroponics

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 ...

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Planting a Hydroponic Garden

Planting a Hydroponic Garden

All growth begins with planting, including hydroponic gardens which are not much different from conventional soil planting. Starting plants from seeds is a beloved aspect of gardening. With discovering hydroponics and indoor gardening a whole new gardening world opened up to us. Now planting a ...

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7 Reasons to Grow a Tower Garden - Review

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 ...

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Growing Lemon in cold climate

Lemon tree in the indoor garden on Video

This blog article started as an indoor garden update on video. But since the Meyer lemon tree in the video got so much attention and raised questions, we have updated it to give more information about growing lemons. An indoor garden is a place where winter does not exist, and that's quite ...

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NFT downspout Hydroponics system upgrade

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 ...

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High Pressure Aeroponics

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 ...

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Garden Update - Winter 2019 on video

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 ...

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