Indoor gardening, Hydroponics, and aquaponics are my favorite thing to research.
If you don’t know what they are let me tell you in brief.
Hydroponic has nutrient-rich water helping the roots absorb nutrients, while the plant grows. You don’t need soil, but a little bit of holding material.
Aquaponics: Its hydroponics with fish involved. The fish waste is used by the plants in the water, to grow. It’s a beautifully symbiotic relationship, where the plant roots clean and purifies the water where the fish live.
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Aquaponics has fishes helping in growing plants. At my home, the aquarium water gets used as plant food. But hydroponics needs a setup and I don’t have working- with-power-tools skills. My husband does those stuff well. But he needs a good plan.
I, on the other hand, am forever planning. But I don’t want to kill the plant babies. This had put me in sort of quandary. But there was good news.
2020 arrived bright and sunny and us being freshly back from Dharamshala,I was missing something. I went searching online, for hydroponic, easy to set up gardens. I loved what they were doing at Plantagon and wished I could have a home in a building like that. Then I found this on amazon.
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The best thing about writing about food and nutrition is, you end up practicing all the good things you learn. That’s the only way to imbibe all the research and find a way to take it forward,
We live in a small town in India. While going back to nature takes a half-hour drive, its another matter growing your own food. Living in a rental means minimal structural changes possible. I grow a lot of flowers, indoor plants and plenty of Tulsi (basil in my balcony garden).
But growing veggies was always a problem I had some success with tomatoes lettuce, greens, even potatoes, bitter gourd and one stray year of homegrown strawberries. But the effort for making fruits and veggies meets its biggest problem with light, and right nutrient balance. I want to go organic but in pots, you need organic liquid fertilizer which is not easy to get locally.
I also want to recycle water.
I want it to be automated.
I also want to grow lights that work. A lot of wants, but no simple solution.
This meant my veggie journey had come down to a dream. Until I found a company online called Pindfresh.
I have ordered their Pindfresh Hydroponic Home Kit version which comes equipped with a motor hydroponic solution seeds and a guide to set it all up.
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I am excited about growing my own food. Hope this experiment works out. I plan to share exactly what I am doing, to grow my own homegrown fresh organic salad.
Do you grow your own food? Let me know in the comments below.