How To Hydroponics: A Beginner's and Intermediate's In Depth Guide To Hydroponics
By Martha Stone
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This hydroponics book is a short yet detailed guide suitably perfect for beginners who want to invest on a hydroponics system or even a DIY hydroponics indoor garden. It will help you understand what the basics are behind the system of hydroponics.
This book is also a helpful tool for intermediate hydroponics gardener because it contains hordes of information with regards to the many and varied hydroponics systems. It also helps gardeners troubleshoot problems within their indoor garden.
I hope that you will find this book as useful as I did!
Martha Stone
Martha Stone is a chef and also cookbook writer. She was born and raised in Idaho where she spent most of her life growing up. Growing up in the country taught her how to appreciate and also use fresh ingredients in her cooking. This love for using the freshest ingredients turned into a passion for cooking. Martha loves to teach others how to cook and she loves every aspect of cooking from preparing the dish to smelling it cooking and sharing it with friends.Martha eventually moved to California and met the love of her life. She settled down and has two children. She is a stay at home mom and involves her children in her cooking as much as possible. Martha decided to start writing cookbooks so that she could share her love for food and cooking with everyone else.
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How To Hydroponics - Martha Stone
Beginner's Introduction
Hydroponic gardening is a method of growing plants without the use of soil. Instead, plants are cultivated in a nutrient-rich solution. This particular gardening method is gaining popularity not only in commercial but also domestic use. In fact, this type of gardening method is preferred among those who live in apartments because this particular system does not require too much space to set up.
The Early Beginnings of Hydroponics
Although hydroponics gardening became a hype just recently, the idea of growing plants without soil has been around for more than four centuries. The earliest account of hydroponics gardening was recorded in 1627 in the book Sylva Sylvarum written by Francis Bacon. Soon after, water culture became a popular research method in studying plants. However, little was understood about hydroponics system particularly the types of elements that are essential to the growth of plants in such propagation technique.
In 1842, German botanists Wilhelm Knop and Julius von Sachs published a list of the nine elements that are essential to the plant growth in hydroponic system. This then led to the further development of the method. In fact, the study published by the two German botanists became the basis of modern day hydroponics.
However, the term hydroponics was coined only later in 1937 when William Frederick Gericke from the University of California at Berkeley promoted his very own concoction of the nutrient-rich solution for his backyard garden. He first grew giant tomatoes using only his nutrient solution which caused quite a stir in the scientific world. The first term given to hydroponics was aquaculture but seeing that this term has already been used and applied in growing aquatic animals such as fish, he then coined the term hydroponics from the Greek words hydro- (water) + ponos (labor).
Gericke's work prompted a lot of curiosity from the scientific world but his refusal to reveal his secrets as well as his entire study has resulted to his premature resignation in the University of California. However, two men from the same university, Dennis Hoagland and Daniel Arnon, made another study to debunk Gericke's exaggerated claim about hydroponics. Instead of debunking Gericke's claim, what they did was that they even further developed the system. In fact, one of the proponents developed his own nutrient solution that is still used even today - the Hoagland Solution. Hydroponic gardening is used not only by ordinary gardeners but also by big institutions such as NASA in the attempt to grow food in their space programs.
Today, this type of gardening method is considered as