Hydroponics – just so many opportunities for self-fulfilment
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
Hydroponics holds many people in a suspended sense of some awe and much fascination. After all, how can you grow plants without soil? Must be another marketing trick, surely? Well, hydroponics has been around since before the middle of the last century. It didn’t start with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as many would believe but with experiments carried out by the US Dept. of Agriculture, which were later given a boost during the war when the US Army had the logistical problem of feeding their troops in the South Sea Islands with fresh vegetables. They used the pristine white beach sand tog ..read more
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Myths About Hydroponics
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
Ask yourself how much you know about hydroponics and from where did you obtain that information? Many people obtain their knowledge from the internet and the problem with that is that the information is contributed by a plethora of sources, much of it from amateurs. The net result is a mine of confusing information, resulting often in delegates starting on our course with heads-full of bird’s nests (!) Hydroponics is the growing of plants in nutrient water, without any soil, with or without a medium for support, as opposed to normal soil-based agriculture where the plants derive their nutritio ..read more
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Do You Know Just How Much Water Hydroponics Can Save You?
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
Hydroponics, the growing of plants without soil in a neutral medium using water soluble fertilisers, optimises growth resulting in optimal yields of perfect fruit or vegetables for the farmer. The world faces a water shortage that grows more acute every year as the population outpaces the country’s ability to provide water. Climate change hasn’t helped matters and the future looks bleak unless drastic measures are introduced to use less water. Agriculture is by far the greatest water consumer, outpacing even industry, with its constant thirsty demand in order to produce food and the reason for ..read more
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How to grow plants in a home Greenhouse
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
Your greenhouse works with recirculating hydroponic nutrient instead of soil Clear the composted pine bark growing medium of all old roots and previous growth The floor, and your hands that touch the plants, must be virus, bacteria and fungus free. So you’ll need to keep the footbath half filled with a sterilising agent such as SPOREKILL or TEKSACLOR (see label instructions for dilution rates). You can also use Dettol. The floor should be mopped clean of any dirt using the same sterilising solution. Wash your hands with the sterilising solution bottle every time you enter. Run a solution of S ..read more
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Hydroponics – Food for the Future
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
Hydroponics has been around since the 1930’s when US Dept. of Agriculture scientists experimented, using water soluble fertilisers to grow plants. Then during the Second World War the US Army gave it a huge boost when they successfully used hydroponics to feed their troops in the South Pacific using the clear crystal water from the volcanic slopes together with beach sand. It did not start with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a misconception, as then they had no water soluble chemicals with which it could be done. Hydroponics uses water soluble nutrients to feed plants in a neutral growing med ..read more
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The DaisyFresh Breathing Greenhouse Concept
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
Background: With the advent of plastics it has become fashionable to erect plastic covered greenhouses to grow produce, often at great expense because of the high cost of the metal that must be used to support the plastic. Apart from the disproportionately high cost, plastic is not the right material to use in hot high humidity areas such as on SA’s Eastern seaboard. The sun’s rays penetrate the plastic (radiation) and the inside of the tunnel becomes intolerably hot. If water is used to cool the tunnel down then the resultant humidity level becomes unacceptably high for the plants. Transpirat ..read more
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Pitfalls in Hydroponics
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
In an earlier issue of The Farmer’s Weekly Julia Kupka exposed some of the shortcomings of the hanging bag system and the dangers of unscrupulous franchisors. These are two very real dangers for potential hydroponics farmers, but there are many others too that the inexperienced hydroponics farmer may not be aware of. Before dealing with those others however, it may be worthwhile examining with a little more detail the reasons associated with the failure of the hanging bag system (which gives other successful vertical systems a bad name) and other failed franchises. The mechanical collapse of t ..read more
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Five Things to Know About Hydroponics
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
1. What is Hydroponics? Hydro from the Greek meaning ‘water’ and ‘ponos’ from the Greek meaning ‘work’ gives us the meaning to work in water. Hydroponics is the growing of plants without soil. The plant nutrition, instead of being supplied by the soil is supplied by water soluble nutrients dissolved in the water. This gives this method of growing many advantages over growing in soil. The nutrients in soil are not evenly dispersed; very often they are lacking and need to be added; soil is a harbinger of insects, worms, larvae, and nematodes etc. all of which play havoc with the quality of the ..read more
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Why Go on A Hydroponics Course?
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by adriaangie
1y ago
You’ve heard about ‘paying school fees’ when learning the hard way about a new subject, hobby or activity with which you’re not familiar. Venturing into the field of hydroponics is no different – the penalties for getting it wrong take the form of money disappearing from your pocket! Here’s why it’s so important to learn about hydroponics before embarking on your own adventure… What is Hydroponics Hydroponics is a meld of chemical engineering and horticulture, and like any other subject needs some study if one is to be successful at it. Firstly, one needs to know that hydroponics is the growin ..read more
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Why Go on A Hydroponics Course?
DaisyFresh – Hydroponics Consultants and Educators
by daisyfresh
2y ago
You’ve heard about ‘paying school fees’ when learning the hard way about a new subject, hobby or activity with which you’re not familiar. Venturing into the field of hydroponics is no different – the penalties for getting it wrong take the form of money disappearing from your pocket! Here’s why it’s so important to learn about hydroponics before embarking on your own adventure. read more The post Why Go on A Hydroponics Course? first appeared on Daisyfresh Hydroponics ..read more
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