People are coming up with new ideas for growing everyday produce in hydroponics and in home gardens all the time.  It’s a “growing” industry that will feed the world one day.

Here’s an excerpt from a news report:

………”Mr. Fitzpatrick and his friend, an adept student of hydroponics science, began conducting some edible experiments which, after some time and nourishment, yielded a gold mine of an answer. “Anything that doesn’t grow inside the ground, we can probably grow it. We worked with some strawberries and these strawberries turned out to be the best-tasting, juiciest strawberries I’ve ever eaten in my life,” Mr. Fitzpatrick said.

“We tried basil. It was like a weed. It was phenomenal. You couldn’t keep up with it.”……..”

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I just read these interesting statistics in a news item.  Why on earth do we still do traditional farming to grow these foods?  Let’s do our best to spread the word and get everyone growing at least part of their own food at home in hydroponics.

“The yield in hydroponics is much greater than the traditional way of soil farming. Wheat yields 5,600 lb in soil farming, while it produces 8,000 lb in hydroponics. Potatoes yield 1,56,000 lb in hydroponics in contrast to just 18,000 lb in natural farming.

The pioneers of hydroponics were Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, New York, New Jersey Agriculture Experimental Station, Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Horticulture Experiment Station, Netherlands. Hydroponics did not reach India until 1946. First research on hydroponics was done in Government of Bengal’s Experimental Farm at Kalimpong in West Bengal.”

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Hydroponics has received a lot of undeserved bad press. Because many people are using hydroponics for growing illegal plants associated with drugs,  the person in the street doesn’t know how the use of this technique is feeding people good, fresh food on a daily basis. There are plenty of legitimate uses for hydroponics by gardeners all over the world.

Like people living in high-rise condos for instance. Most people living in tall skyscrapers do not have access to a garden area as you do if you own a house. The same goes for apartment dwellers. It makes it very difficult to haul bag-loads of soil up to your home and then have heavy pots to move about on even a little balcony or patio.

A hydroponic system can easily be placed in any spare room, allowing you to grow your own fresh organic herbs, fruits and vegetables just feet away from your kitchen. With hydroponics you have no dirt or no bugs and everything stays perfectly fresh. Without hydroponics, people who want to grow their own organic and pesticide free fresh fruits and vegetables have a hard time doing so.