Simple cultivation solutions make this book appealing both to novice and seasoned gardners, who will discover how to achieve the best yields with limited space and a small budget. More than 670 full-colour photos, drawings, charts and graphs illustrate every detail of this authoritative easy-to-understand book.

Includes a step-by-step guide to achieving between 20 and 50% higher yields with rockwool; instructions on creating a rockwool hydro gardne; how to make p[lants grow faster and more lushly in rockwool; how to choose the perfect garden for any growing need. Includes specific tips from pro growers and examples of the latest tools and innovations for use with rockwool.

Pick your container, fill it with water, and sit back and watch your plant grow! This book is the answer to anyone who has ever shied away from growing house plants because of messy dirt or fear of things dying if left for a few days without water. Ditch the hassle and learn how to grow plants indoors with nothing but water. Peter Loewer, an inveterate inventor of water gardening techniques, has written and illustrated this charming guide to teach readers the basics of hydroculture. This technique of growing plants in water has a history of almost 300 years, from experiments by an English botanist to the giant automated factory greenhouses of the twentieth century where vegetables are now grown commercially by the ton. Learn how to utilize this simple, time-tested method in your own home and never worry about over- or under-watering again! Peter Loewer, an inveterate inventor of water gardening techniques, has written and illustrated this charming guide to teach readers the basics of hydroculture. This technique of growing plants in water has a history of almost 300 years, from experiments by an English botanist to the giant automated factory greenhouses of the twentieth century where vegetables are now grown commercially by the ton. Learn how to utilize this simple, time-tested method in your own home and never worry about over- or under-watering again!

DIY Hydroponic Gardens and Farmer Tyler show home DIYers how to build over a dozen hydroponics growing systems, some of which cost only a few dollars to make.

Sets the standard for indoor gardening with lights worldwide. Van Patten unlocks the world of indoor gardneing under fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps, both of which help seedlings and low-light plants start earlier and grow stronger. Combining the basics of gardening and electrical lighting know-how in one easy-to-use volume, he shows readers of all levels how to get the most out of hydroponics.

This comprehensive guide is the only book that focuses on the Deep-Water-Culture (DWC) hydroponic system. You will quickly learn how to use the DWC system, which is the lowest cost, easiest to set up, easiest to maintain, and easiest to expand hydroponic system. This definitive how-to-resource will guide you through each step of the way. Year-round gardening, indoors and outdoors, pesticide- and herbicide-free. Take control of what you eat. Grow what you like in a very small space. Grow vertically to increase your yield. No gardening experience is necessary. Who would benefit from this book? The ideas in this book will work for you, whether you live in a mansion, a single room, a condo, a senior center, an assisted living facility, whether you live in the city or the country, or whether you have ever wondered how you can possibly grow vegetables and herbs in just water and air. It is a sustainable process and great for the environment and, especially healthy for you and your family. What will you learn? Through 280 pages in 15 modules, 120 photographs, 23 DIY projects, 26 tables and charts, 9 case studies you will learn ... - How to build your own DWC system with food safe buckets, totes and PVC tubes. - What off-the-shelf fertilizers to buy and how to create your own. - How to use Integrated Pest Management and non-chemical solutions for disease and insect control. - What lighting units to buy, how to build portable light frames and elevated tables. - How to select the right growing medium. - What, when and how to plant seeds and seedlings and when and how to harvest everything your taste buds crave-from sweet basil to salad greens to luscious, tasty tomatoes. Very easy. Very rewarding. Hydroponic Gardening The Very Easy Way has everything you need to know about DWC hydroponic gardening and more. Take control of what you eat-and have fun doing it! Larry Cipolla is a master gardener, international speaker, and hydroponics expert. He lives and gardens in Minnesota.

Secrets of successful indoor growing.Hydroponics Indoor Horticulture is the most modern, advanced, and accessible information available to date on indoor gardening.This book reveals the esoteric secrets that are practised and used by the most experienced, seasoned and succesful hydroponic cultivators.In straightforward, easy-to-understand, plain English, this book explains step by step and chapter by chapter, every currently known method and technique for producing super-sized yields and outrageous harvests.

The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse. Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn’t have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as “microgreens” left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors. After some research and diligent experimenting, Burke discovered he was right—there was a way! And it was even easier than he ever could have hoped, and the greens more nutrient packed. He didn’t even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark. Growing “Soil Sprouts”—Burke’s own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars—employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Indeed, of all the ways to grow immature greens, this is the easiest and most productive technique. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps! This book is a revolutionary and inviting guide for both first-time and experienced gardeners in rural or urban environments. All you need is a windowsill or two. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering this method (hint: it’s impossible not to succeed, it’s so easy!), tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.

Home Hydroponics presents fully illustrated plans for building over a dozen different beautiful, home-based DIY hydroponic growing systems to cultivate your own food indoors.

Simple explanations about how to add biology to any plant growing system makes this book easy-to-read for the general public. Guidelines for conventional, sustainable and organic applications -- whether you are growing indoor in controlled environments and soilless media or outdoors in open fields of soil, this book helps you design your growing systems and incorporate biology into your programs. Basic biology and chemistry of nutrient-cycling and plant growing environments are given, so the mystery is taken out of plant growing. Chapters include: Introduction, Synthetic or Inorganic Systems, Biological/Organic Systems, Plant Growing Systems Out of Balance, Roots Interface Biology and Plants, Types of Microorganisms, Types of Beneficial Aerobic Microorganisms, Environments for Maintaining Microorganisms, Microbes and Plants Form a Symbiotic Relationship, Integrating Biology into Plant Growing Systems, Sources of Beneficial Microorganisms, Apply Microorganisms, Testing for Biologicals, Research on MicroorganismsThere are many types of biological products for soil and soilless media enhancement available on the commercial market today and more entering daily. New research, new formulations, new stabilization techniques are enabling the expansion of these product to fill the increasing demand from consumers wanting alternatives to toxic chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.This notebook is an attempt to provide basic information about adding biology to soil and soilless media whether in outdoor fields or indoor controlled environment hydroponics systems. Whether we are using synthetic fertilizers/nutrients or sustainable practices, or have converted to organic systems, there is a way to add biology to enhance production, yield and quality.