Hydroponic gardening refers to soilless growing, whereby plants grow and develop in a nutrient-rich solution rather than traditional soil beds. According to botanists, hydroponics can actually have a 30-50 quicker growth rate and more substantial yield than a regular soil garden. This is due to the fact that hydroponics encourages more oxygen to circulate around the plant’s roots.
Aeroponics is an indoor gardening practice in which plants are grown and nourished by suspending their root structures in air and regularly spraying them with a nutrient and water solution. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tested the effectiveness of aeroponics on the Mir space station and the results showed that Asian bean seedlings could grow effectively in a nutrient solution in zero gravity.
Fogponics is an offshoot of aeroponics. In this indoor gardening practice, plants are suspended in enclosed systems with no soil or growing medium. Instead, a fog or mist of water and nutrients is pumped into the closed system to give the roots constant exposure to the nutrients the plant needs to grow.
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This proprietary method offers quite a paradigm shift in food production and sustainable farming methods. It provides up to twenty times the yield of your standard field crops and uses merely 8% of the water that is usually needed for soil farming.