OK, Thought I had better start this off..... been ages and not a single post.

So, I guess I am asking - does anyone use hydroponics to grow fruit and vegies?

I saw a segment on the new inventors during the last year, where a couple of guys had developed a wonderful way of having a total indoor / urban hydro solution. It even had a fish tank with it to recycle the water and provide nutrients for the plants.

The result: an almost self sustaining hydroponic vegetable farm in an urban house in the city. The only cost: the power required to turn the motor that rotated the vegies growing.

So, with all the water issues we are having, why is this kind of thing not taken up more now? Do you think it will be something for the future? Or the does energy component of this solution outstrip the benefits of it's water recycling? (solar can fix this one surely?)

I can't seem to find an article on the show i was referring to - if someone can, can they post it here please?

OK - there. Done. There is now a post in the hydroponics forum! Hydroponic fruit and veg growers - you can all come out of the closet now!

LOLLove, Light & Laughter

I have been using hydroponics for some time now to grow vegies.I only grow from seed to the plant size you would normally get at the nursery then plant them out in the garden, it saves so much time. I grow tomatoes, climbing beans, cabbage, cauliflower, pumpkin, rock melon, beetroot, silverbeet,The good thing about it you can put in 2or3 seeds at a time to stagger the growing period so all your cabbages etc are not ready to eat at the same time,I grow in a mixture of coconut husk and perlite and use a ready mixed nutrient solution all of these things are readily available at a hydroponic shop
Brian

You won`t get me out of that closet. :shock:

I want to see a few more before I will own UP. Life is for living ! Don't sleep through it .

thanks tropicalfrog..... riddup!Love, Light & Laughter

Never really known, or wanted to know, much about the hydroponics thing.
I love my gardening because it pretties up the outside of the house and any passers-by can see it (That's why I only have flower beds out the front and have never bothered out the back).

However, now that I've just started trying to grow veggies I might look into this more.
My youngest son is autustic, and he may enjoy the responsibility and reward of growing his own food inside the house.
Thanks for the suggestion, mg.Coming at ya from Sunny Kalbarri, WA.

There is a lot of commercial use of hydroponics. We have some nice tomatos at the moment that smell and taste like the real thing. Lettuce is another one. I suspect it takes a lot of equipment to make it worth while for the home gardner.
LizDandenongs [cool temperate] Vic.

Yup could be right. Global warming may hurry the whole process as well given the water situation.

LizDandenongs [cool temperate] Vic.