9 Advantages To A Hydroponic Indoor Garden

Have you considered setting up your own hydroponic indoor garden? The advantages are numerous as compared to soil based gardening.

Take a look at the following advantages of hydroponic indoor gardening:

1. You don’t need to purchase any expensive pesticides. As the majority of pests tend to hang around soil, they have no access to your hydroponic plants.

2. Once you have made all your initial set-up costs, running costs are around 20% lower with indoor hydroponic gardens.

3. You can grow more plants in a smaller space hydroponically as opposed to soil based gardening! This is true even though your plants will in fact grow larger, the roots will be smaller as they don’t need to spread out to find nutrients.

4. Maintenance time is greatly reduced! There is no watering as they already have all the water they need, weeding doesn’t exist in indoor hydroponic gardens either. In fact all you need to do is pick the fruit or vegetables as and when required.

5. The yield is year round! After all, you have manipulated the growing conditions so that the plants are always happy. When it’s off season, you can sell the produce for higher prices.

6. You can grow them anywhere; window ledge, rooftop, cellar, attic, garden, greenhouse, garage or bedroom.

7. Hydroponic plants grow on average 40% larger than there soil based counterparts. This is because you have given them permanent access to all the nutrients they need and you’ve given them their ideal growing conditions.

8. One of the main problems for novice gardeners is under or over watering! This can obviously cause problems for plants. This problem is eliminated though in indoor hydroponic gardens.

9. For reasons already listed above, hydroponic plants grow up to 50% faster than other plants. This has clear advantages if you’re feeding a large family or are planning on making money out of it.