Three Setups For Your First Hydroponic Garden.
By greenbookpages at December 28, 2013 | 1:00 am | 0 Comment
Deciding On A Hydroponic System The first thing you need to do if you want to set up a hydroponic garden as a beginner is choose a system that works well with your personal needs. Factors that you should keep in mind include the amount of space you have, the kinds of foods you want to grow, how much food you are interested in growing, how much such a system would cost,
Hydroponics: It Will Save Your Garden and The World
By greenbookpages at November 24, 2013 | 9:10 pm | 1 Comments
Hydroponics: It Will Save Your Garden and The World There is nothing like the satisfaction gained from gardening. Planting flowers, fruits, and vegetables and watching them grow and blossom is a thrilling experience. However, what if you didn't need to "plant" your vegetation? One of the most recent groundbreaking discoveries in the realm of gardening is a process that
Optimum Grow Room Humidity.
By greenbookpages at November 19, 2013 | 9:54 pm | 0 Comment
How well plants grow is dependent on many factors. Conditions like air temperature, sunlight, soil pH, and nutrient levels all have an impact on a plant's health and eventual size. These can all be controlled in a relatively simple way with thermostats, fertilizers, and lamps. Another important factor is the humidity level. Relative humidity is determined by the
How To Build A Hydroponic Garden
By greenbookpages at November 14, 2013 | 11:02 pm | 0 Comment
Building a hydroponic garden from scratch isn't an easy task, but it's a great hobby and way to grow your own food throughout the year. Hydroponics is a specialized type of gardening that involves no soil, covered gardening areas and sometimes indoor gardening. You only need basic skills to start your own hydroponic garden, but you don't want to cut corners on the
Brewing Bountea Compost Tea
By greenbookpages at September 19, 2013 | 9:14 pm | 0 Comment
Brewing Bountea Compost Tea Brewing Compost Tea is easy, very affordable, and the best addition to a nutrient program available. You can buy brewed compost tea in stores but it is less expensive to do it yourself and the tea you brew will be fresh, alive and effective. The Bountea Garden Tea Brew Kit is an excellent 5-gallon
Botanicare’s Kind Plant Nutrient System
By greenbookpages at September 19, 2013 | 5:26 pm | 1 Comments
KIND Nutrients Hand-crafted in small batches with absolutely zero dyes or other potentially toxic additives, the KIND Plant Nutrient System is a specially developed and technologically advanced way to bring vibrant life and beauty to your plants, no matter what conditions you grow in. Available in several different formulas tailor made for specific results, KIND gives
The Sustainable Way of Increasing Your Yield
By greenbookpages at August 12, 2013 | 8:52 pm | 0 Comment
There are many methods being proposed and employed today to replenish nutrients stripped from the soil by long-term gardening and farming. A few of these methods include chemical fertilizers, composting, and even bioengineering non-legume plant species to enable them to fix nitrogen into the soil the way legume crops do. Each method has its own set of pros and cons that
Gardening is Good For Your Health?
By greenbookpages at August 8, 2013 | 7:15 pm | 0 Comment
A recent study has found the getting down and dirty in your garden is great for your health and personal happiness. A survey of 1500 adults living in the UK by Gardener’s World magazine has found that on average gardeners are happier and more satisfied with their lives. It appears getting out into green space may well be a positive thing for our health but
To Prune or Not to Prune
By greenbookpages at July 18, 2013 | 6:25 pm | 0 Comment
The answer to the question of whether to prune or not to prune is a perennial one debated among novice and experienced gardeners alike. Many growers are unsure of whether, when and how to best prune their plants. Making an informed decision about whether or not to prune requires a little research on that type of plant but is well worth the time spent, as it can ensure a
The Benefits of Enzymes
By greenbookpages at July 18, 2013 | 5:57 pm | 0 Comment
Enzymes are vital components of cell growth for all living things. They are necessary in order to maintain health. Specifically, plant enzymes are necessary in order for the plant to grow and be strong and healthy. Without sufficient enzymes a number of problems occur that weaken the plant. In any case this typically causes the plant to perform poorly and have issues
Cloning
By greenbookpages at July 11, 2013 | 9:37 pm | 0 Comment
Cloning Plants: The Basics Though plants are known to use sexual reproduction to replicate themselves, many of them also have cloning strategies that they use as well. From an evolutionary standpoint, this allows them to try and be successful in the exact genetic form that they're in, or to recombine into a new genetic form that might be more successful in drought or
Benefits of Reverse Osmosis
By greenbookpages at June 28, 2013 | 4:57 pm | 0 Comment
Osmosis occurs when a solution goes from a lower concentration to a higher concentration. Driven by a need to equalize the amount of solute concentration on both sides of the membrane, it reduces the free energy of the system. Osmosis is the natural flow of a pure solvent or solution, and an external pressure is needed to reverse this flow. This pressure used by reverse
Organic vs. Synthetic Nutrients
By greenbookpages at June 28, 2013 | 4:38 pm | 0 Comment
Growing things more quickly has rapidly become acceptable. However, as in so many areas of life, altering natural processes of life lessens the value of the product. For thousands of years, the plant world thrived under normal conditions as it was created to do. Man needed only to plant seeds and attempt to care for the basic needs of the growing plant, such as water,
The once incurable Tobacco Mosaic Virus now has a cure!
By greenbookpages at June 17, 2013 | 5:10 pm | 0 Comment
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is named for one of the first plants in which it was found in the 1800s. However, it can infect well over 350 different species of plants. TMV is made up of a piece of nucleic acid (ribonucleic acid; RNA) and a surrounding protein coat. The complete virus is a submicroscopic, rigid, rod-shaped particle. Once inside the plant cell, the protein
Which Hydroponic System is right for your Grow?
By greenbookpages at June 17, 2013 | 4:31 pm | 0 Comment
The Different Methods of Hydroponics There are five popular methods of hydroponics, all of which have their advantages and disadvantages. The method you choose should depend upon which characteristics are most important to you; is it ease of set up, lowest maintenance, largest yields, most reliable or most cost effective? These are just some of the deciding
Aquaponics (Gardening with Fish & Water)
By greenbookpages at June 17, 2013 | 4:29 pm | 0 Comment
THERE’S a “Beyond Thunderdome” quality to Rob Torcellini’s greenhouse. The 10-by-12-foot structure is undistinguished on the outside: he built it from a $700 kit, alongside his family’s Victorian-style farmhouse in Eastford, Conn., a former farming town 35 miles east of Hartford. What is going on inside, however, is either a glimpse at the future of food growing
The Importance of Purified Water
By greenbookpages at June 17, 2013 | 4:25 pm | 0 Comment
“Serious gardeners have long realized how important pure water is to the success of their important crops.” But what about more prized plants and fruits? What if you only want to give your plants the best ingredients? Most important, what if you were interested in pushing your plants to the max and achieving explosive growth? Serious gardeners have long
Why are bees dying? The USA and Europe have different theories.
By greenbookpages at May 7, 2013 | 7:51 pm | 0 Comment
The mysterious collapse of bee colonies around the world has turned into a real crisis. In the United States, domesticated bee populations have reached a 50-year low and keep dwindling. The situation is just as dire in many other countries. Not doing well. (Linda Davidson / The Washington Post) And that’s bad news for all those crops that depend on bees. The U.N.
LightRail Light Movers by Gualala Robotics
By greenbookpages at May 2, 2013 | 5:52 pm | 0 Comment
LightRail Light Movers Created in 1986 by Gualala Robotics Inc., LightRail is an innovative lighting system that moves to more evenly distribute light to more parts of a plant's leaves, which stimulates faster and healthier growth. The LightRail system consists of a ceiling mounted rail with an attached motor and light that moves along the rail at a set pace,
Dragon Juice Plant Wash & Plant Food
By greenbookpages at April 2, 2013 | 5:58 pm | 0 Comment
Dragon Juice Derived from all natural ingredients, iNATURE's Dragon Juice is the plant spray of choice for any environmentally conscious gardener. All Dragon Juice products are easy to use by spraying over plants in a simple, one-step application process. Because Dragon Juice contains complex carbohydrates instead of chemicals, it is completely safe to use in any
How to Prevent Plant Mold
By greenbookpages at November 14, 2012 | 10:55 pm | 1 Comments
Organic Technology Concepts and Preventing Plant Mold There are various types of plant mold. One of the most common is gray mold. This type of mold typically becomes problematic during periods of heavy rainfall and during cold temperatures and humid conditions. Gray mold appears on the leaves and flowers of plants that are dying. At first, the mold looks like
Top Five Indoor Gardening Mistakes
By geotheme at August 31, 2012 | 5:05 pm | 1 Comments
Five Glaring, Frequently Encountered Indoor Gardening Mistakes Growing plants indoors doesn't demand a level of expertise on par with Indiana Jones, but it does require attention to some gardening basics with a few tweaks. Mistakes that may self-correct to some degree in an outdoor garden, like over-fertilizing and over-watering, are advantages lost when turning to
How to Clean a Grow Room
By geotheme at August 1, 2012 | 7:31 pm | 2 Comments
Proper Cleaning of an Indoor Grow Room First step to a healthy harvest is a clean grow room Because many parts of the country have temperatures and weather that vary widely, many people choose to have grow rooms in their homes. Grow rooms can maintain consistent climates so that healthy plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables can be grown at any time of the
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