Welcome to my Home Hydroponics and Gardening Blog! It's GROW Time!

I decided to spin off my home hydroponics and gardening posts to their own blog. This will help me organize my posts and allow me to keep my art and photography posts separated since they may not be appropriate for everyone. I will also have a more flexible schedule since I won't be waiting to post my gardening topics around my other entries.

For those of you who are looking for information on hydroponics and are just finding me for the first time, let me introduce myself. My name is Chris, I live in Florida and have many interests and hobbies including gardening and sustainable living. I have been growing food using hydroponics since 2013 when I made the decision to switch over from container soil gardening, which has increased our yield by 300-400% depending on the crop. This is huge considering the small amount of space we have for growing.

What is Hydroponics?

In case you're not familiar with hydroponics, it is a process of growing plants in a controlled, closed-loop, soil-less system. A balanced nutrient solution is circulated through channels or pipes to supply the plants with the required water, minerals, and nutrients they need to grow. Hydroponics is an extremely water-efficient way to grow, only using between 15% and 35% of the water that would be required to grow the same plants in soil gardens.

Fresh "ugly" tomatoes picked from our garden, most get to be over 1 pound.

Step-by-Step

I will use my Hive account@steempowergarden blog to post all my gardening-related articles and share with you the wealth of information I have learned over the years. I will share my home garden systems, show you how I built them, how I maintain them, how I start my seeds and transplant them, what I use for nutrients, whats growing or being harvested, and share any of the mistakes I've made over time to help you avoid them.

I have both indoor and outdoor hydroponic gardens growing food.

Saving Money $

The best part is the money you save from growing your own food at home adds up really fast. We save on average between $125 and $250 per month based on the volume of food our gardens produce that we then don't have to buy. We often grow more food than we can eat and share it with family and friends.

You will be amazed at how much these gardens produce in such a small space.

The obligatory proof of ownership :-) Just putting new plants in today.

If you are following me over on Hive account@steempowerpics, but are only interested in my gardening topics and not my photography or art, feel free to follow me here and unfollow me there - I understand and won't be upset, I promise.

I also reposted my indoor hydroponic lettuce wall garden entry on this account to keep things organized and start everyone off from the beginning, and will follow up on Wednesday with a seed starting post.

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