Advantages/Disadvantages of Hydroponics Gardening

Are you interested in gardening? Is gardening one of your hobbies? You have heard about Hydroponics gardens and want to know more about it before actually trying it out. If the answer to these questions is yes, then you have reached at the right place. This article describes various advantages and disadvantages of setting up your first hydroponics garden. But before that let’s know what does the term Hydroponics means.

Hydroponics is a word made up of two words Hydro and ponics. Hydro means water and ponics means science of agriculture and thus the word Hydroponics means growing of plants in a nutrient rich solution instead of soil under controlled situation of light, temperature, and humidity. The required essential nutrients are given to the crop through water. Hydroponics is also known as Aquaculture.

As everything has its own advantages and disadvantage so is true in case of hydroponic gardens. Hence before you decide to set up your own hydroponics garden, let’s discuss various advantages and disadvantages that you may be like to consider:

Advantages:
#   You do not require soil: Since all the nutrients are pumped to plants through water, this gardening approach does not require soil.

#    No Soil, No soil borne diseases: Since the soil is not used for growing of plants in a hydroponics gardening hence the risk of having soil borne diseases are virtual eliminated.

#   No Weeds:  There are no chances of weeds growing with your plants and thus you generally require fewer pesticides.

#   Hydroponics gardening is considered as a best option for plant production in those areas where soil is not available for cultivation, like in an apartment balcony or on the terrace.

Disadvantages:
#   Good technical information: A person growing plants through hydroponics gardening should usually have a good technical knowledge than in case of traditional approach of growing plants.

#   Extra Equipment: Hydroponics gardening usually requires extra equipment.

#   Maintenance: In Hydroponics gardening approach the maintenance of the equipment is another big burden on you.

#   Cost: On top of everything, hydroponics gardening makes it more expensive to grow plants. When you add up all the cost including maintenance, equipments and so on, the overall cost of plant cultivation in case of hydroponics becomes much more instead of the traditional method of plant cultivation.

At the end, decision of taking up hydroponics gardening as an approach of plant cultivation entirely depends on individual to individual.

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