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Keep dirt apart: Raise hydroponics gardens

By: Jason Uvios

Bade a bye to dirt forever, yet enjoy the blooming of lovely fresh flowers and budding of green vegetables at your very own home. As you have heard every now and then that ‘impossible’ is a word in the fool’s dictionary, one such real application is right in front of you. Yes, hydroponics or growing plants in water and not in the soil is not miraculous. A very much real experience and recently in vogue in the plantation sector worldwide, this technique is a sophisticated way of raising plants without a single particle of dirt left behind.

If you closely go through the differences in the process of cultivation with and without soil, you can pretty well define why hydroponics is a better and convenient way absolutely dirt less.

Basic requirements plants must have

You know plants have two leading systems to respire and prepare food. The basic life-sustaining gas is oxygen as in the animals and humans but for preparing food, plants need carbon dioxide. Thus photosynthesis takes place in the presence of carbon dioxide, water and natural light from the sun.

Importance of soil

The soil is the store house of different minerals and nutrients and also water. The pores present in the roots are responsible to absorb these from the soil. Again if the soil is incapable of providing the necessary amount of support for the plant’s growth then additional fertilizers are given to it.

This is understood that how the necessary minerals and water are taken in by the roots. During the process of photosynthesis the leaves take in the atmospheric carbon dioxide and sunlight and carry on the process. But how do the plants get the support of oxygen?

Oxygen cannot be absorbed by the leaves. The roots are involved in the process of transporting oxygen from the soil to the rest parts of the plants. When the water from the soil is drained away, a vacuum is created which in turn gets filled with oxygen molecules which are sucked in by the roots and then to the rest of the plant.

Thus you can make out that how much important is soil throughout. So why won’t dirt and mud gather in this process?

Solution in place of soil

Unlikely when the soil is replaced by nutrient rich solution the requirements of the plants remain the same but the medium changes. Rather in hydroponics the system becomes more direct and the roots come in direct contact with the nutrient salts dissolved in the solution. Therefore the growth is faster and the garden can be brought up in any location both inside and outside the house. And mud, soil, dirt - they have no room at all.

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