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Building your Own Vertical Hydroponic Garden

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Building your own gardening system can be an interesting and satisfying project resulting in a versatile, inexpensive garden where plants flourish.

For do-it-yourself types, EasiestGarden.com sells hydroponic garden plans for the home gardener who wants to grow lettuce, strawberries, flowers, herbs and other small plants. We recently had a look at the plans for building your own vertical hydroponic system. The final product is a four tube vertical garden that is quite attractive and functional. If you are looking at wall (vertical) gardening, these plans are excellent as they can be scaled to your own requirements.

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Hydroponics Systems for Citrus Farms

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Starting the day without orange juice sounds unthinkable to many.  In the not-so-distant future, orange juice could become unaffordable due to problems with citrus farming.  In Florida, one of the larges citrus producing areas in the world, farmers are experimenting with hydroponics growing systems to help reduce problems with “Greening,” an increasingly prevalent disease of citrus trees.

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What is Aquaponics?

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Aquaponics is a farming combination of aquaculture and hydroponics.  Traditional aquaculture is the practice of fish farming.  Traditional hydroponics is farming plants in soil less media or strictly in nutrient solutions.  Aquaponics combines the two practices to form a co-dependent farming ecosystem that capitalizes on the benefits of aquaculture and hydroponics and minimizes the negative effects of each.

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Vertical Farming

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The horse and plow gave way to the tractor.  Soon, the tractor will give way to a “farmer” strolling through aisles of produce growing in twenty story buildings!  Vertical farming is the way of the future.

Las Vegas Plans to Farm
Or not.  Early in 2008, rumors circulated rampantly around the internet that the city of Las Vegas was planning to build a thirty story vertical farm.  This farm would have fed 72,000 people for a year, and would have been opened as yet another tourist attraction.  Since the viral spread of this news on the internet, the city of Las Vegas has denied any plans to construct such a farm, and Chris Jacobs, the designer of the building pictured in articles and blogs about the project, has written that he was never approached for a design.

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Hydroponics in Urban Farming

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Urban farming is a challenge for those without large lots.  For culinary fiends craving fresh lettuce, microgreens and other treats year-round without having to break the bank, vertical growing systems are one source of horticultural happiness.  Large cities such as New York and Chicago provide flourishing markets for fresh produce.  Commercial growers with time and energy to set up shop nearby can capitalize on a “growing” market.

Hydroponics Basics
Hydroponics gardens grow in water, nutrient solutions, air, or different growing media such as vermiculite or coir.  Hydroponically grown plants do not grow in soil.  Nutrient solutions given to plants in hydroponics gardens provide necessary minerals, nutrients and water needed for optimum plant growth without soil.  A variety of hydroponics growing systems abound, including new vertical growing systems.

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Grow Up!

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By: Charlene Rennick

One of the most widely acclaimed advantages of having a hydroponic garden is that it produces a greater volume of crop at harvest.  Hydroponically-based cultivation projects operate all year long, give gardeners an opportunity to start plants way ahead of the outdoor growing season, and can pack more plants into less space.

Recently, another land-saving, space-creating, energy-conserving, hydroponic break-through is the vertical garden.  Growing upwards instead of outwards gets the most use out of your lights and saves on your hydroponic hydro bill.  Vertical cultivation techniques will double the crop yield that normally requires 2-600 watt lights.  This technique is more energy efficient than any other type of light or indoor hydroponic system.

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