Hydroponics
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With the recent price increases in food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, there is a real challenge to feed a family with the 5-a-day produce and fruit menu. Fresh (more...)
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Many new devices, ideas and civilizations have emerged because, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. The shortage of water and available arable land for planting (more...)
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Some three centuries ago, john Woodward, an English scientist and a fellow of the Royal Society, undertook the first recorded scientific experiments on the subject of plant (more...)
There are 3 forms of hydroponics they are Agroponics, Aeroponics and Aquaponics. The definition of hydroponics is literally working water…or as used today the science (more...)
“Go organic” has become the battle-cry of thousands of Americans who assume that food items labeled “organic” is automatically a better, (more...)
Calcium uptake and mobility Calcium uptake by the plant is passive and does not require energy input. Calcium mobility in the plant takes places mainly in the (more...)
There are two main types of hydroponic systems - closed hydroponic systems and open hydroponic systems. Hydroponic systems that do not involve growing media are usually (more...)
Also called Norgessalpeter (Norwegian saltpeter) is the inorganic compound with the formula Ca(NO3)2. This colorless salt absorbs moisture from the air and is commonly (more...)