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Food

Hydroponics – Hydroponic Gardening Kits

July 28, 2010

Complete hydroponic kits are available that range in price everywhere from a few dozen dollars to a few thousand.
At the lowest end of the scale some kits offer little more than someone could make for themselves by gathering common household items. But they do implicitly package a little knowledge needed to get started. By including [...]

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Ways to Make Money From Your Herb Garden

June 30, 2010

I have come into my possession material that varies in age from 1 to 13 years regarding profit from the marketing of herbs and spices. My caveat to you is the material is RAW and unedited.
I’ll be spending the time in the month of July editing the content and making it current. For example, there [...]

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Vegetable Gardening – How To Create Compost

June 27, 2010

Creating your own compost is easy and provides an excellent natural fertilizer. Compost is a mixture of organic materials – leaves, manure, table scraps and more – left in a pile to decay. Naturally occurring soil organisms will work on the material and eventually break it down into a fine, homogeneous soil additive for your [...]

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Vegetable Gardening – Container Gardening

June 21, 2010

Growing vegetables in containers – whether inside the house, in a greenhouse or just on the porch – has many advantages. Soil maintenance is easier. Pest control is simpler. There are more options for adjusting light and temperature levels.
Most vegetables that can be grown outdoors will do well in containers. Pumpkins and cucumbers, both of [...]

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Hydroponics – Lighting the Hydroponic Garden

June 17, 2010

Most plants grown in a hydroponic setting require light, lots of it.
They photosynthesize to produce their own nutrients. They require warmth to keep biochemical reactions going, and going at the right rate. They regulate many processes by the amount of light present, speeding some up and shutting down others.
During photosynthesis plants take in carbon dioxide [...]

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Hydroponics – Really Simple Plant Biology

May 24, 2010

For some, the phrases ‘plant biology’ or ‘plant physiology’ or even the word botany brings to mind scary images. Certainly these sciences can be very complex and studying them is reserved for the truly motivated or professional. But even ‘by the seat of their pants’ gardeners can benefit from a small amount of such information, [...]

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Hydroponics – Hydroponics Growing Media

May 15, 2010

Like any plant, those grown in a hydroponic setting require support and water. Because of the name, many of those new to hydroponics will arrive thinking that plants are always grown in water. That is certainly done, but there are many other choices for media. Hydroponics is really just soil-less plant growing, with some other [...]

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Hydroponics – What Is Hydroponics?

May 14, 2010

Gardeners and horticulturalists are used to getting grimy. They root around in the soil, applying fertilizers and pesticides. They plant, divide and re-plant. They do all this for the rewards of producing beautiful and nutritious plants to view and eat. But what if you could gain those values without coming into contact with any soil [...]

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EarthBox

January 10, 2010

EarthBox is a unique, simple, carefree, highly productive gardening system that anyone, no matter where they live or what their experience, can enjoy healthful home-grown produce without guesswork and toil. An easy way for people of all ages to enjoy gardening, providing maximum yields with minimum maintenance.

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Backyard Aquaponics

January 10, 2010

Backyard Aquaponics has a few years behind it and it shows with its rich content. The forum alone has tens of thousands of posts.
Aquaponics is such an exciting technology because of its efficient use of resources and its scalability from a backyard to a community.
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Aquaponics by definition is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics. [...]

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