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Hydroponic gardening are gaining popularity for cultivating crops in your home garden that gives you higher yield and save your home space.TRANSCRIPT
Guide: Setting Up Your Own Outdoor Hydroponic Garden
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants
excluding the use of soil. Hydroponic gardens are
gaining popularity for cultivating crops in your
home garden that gives you higher yield and save
your home space. Due to hydroponic system, you
can grow and sustain crops in drought prone
regions like deserts and rocky mountain.
Hydroponic gardening is break up into two
parts i.e. outdoor gardening and indoor
gardening. Summer is the best weather for
outdoor gardening, as you get natural light from
the sun. With a small preparation, you can set up your own outdoor hydroponic garden with
the use of homespun hydro technique. Growers can make the use of hydroponic system
through the system of circulating bucket. They are moderately simple to assemble and
maintain. It will surely help you grow large plants that endure the elements and generate
vast harvests. Here is your complete guide that will help you start your outdoor hydroponic
garden easily:
Requirements and Fittings:
1. Outdoor garden requires more water than the indoors, so you need a growing
medium that can hold good amount of moisture. Use a good growing medium for
this.
2. You will need a 5-gallon buckets and a Standard Controller Systems that includes an
8-gallon controller module and a 13-gallon master reservoir. The controller is
situated beneath the master reservoir and is connected with a float valve. As the
water level drops, the float valve prompts and fill up the controller through the
master reservoir. This helps to maintain a continuous supply of nutrients and water
into it.
3. You will require a 3.2-gallon bucket which should be fitted with farm kit. This
includes a pumping column and a support that expands from the base of the 5-gallon
bucket to the 3.2-gallon bucket, from there it attaches the drip ring. It enables the
nutrients solution to pass from the bucket to the drip ring.
4. Water Farm Kit is used to connect the buckets towards the controller; this allows the
nutrient to flow between the buckets and the controller. This makes sure that the
level of pH and TDS remains constant. It enables the grower to constantly check the
parameters straight from the drain level that reduces your time and labour.
5. To ensure that your pH level is mixed and adjusted properly, you will require a
Shutoff Valve between the controller and the master reservoir.
6. To oxygenate the nutrient, you will require air pumps that move from the pumping
area towards the drip ring. Use air pumps as per the buckets used in the system.
Setting Up:
Remove the handles from the buckets with the
use of pliers. Drip ring needs to be placed in
the centre of the bucket, which is 1 inch above
from the bucket’s side. Use a driller to drill
holes in centre bottom of 3.2 gallon buckets
that will easily drain off the excess material.
On the opposite side of the 5 gallon buckets
about 1 inch from the bottom, drill a hole and
insert a ½ grommet. Place the 5-gallon
buckets, controller module and the master
reservoir as needed and join them using the
blue tubing in the middle of each bucket.
Bring together the float valve and insert the grommet and “T” fitting in the bottom of the
controller. You need to install Shutoff valve and tubing between the controller and the
master reservoir. Due to this, the nutrient solution is easily mixed in the master reservoir.
Place the Eco Air in a dried up area and join each outlet towards the air tube from the
pumping column. Now, you can plug the timer and air pump and set the irrigation timer for
15 minutes, two times a day. You can also reduce or increase the irrigation timing and cycle.
Filling up:
This is the last process of outdoor hydroponic garden set up. The master reservoir needs to
be placed on top of the controller quite close to the Shutoff Valve. Fill in the water in the
master reservoir to check out for leaks. Close the shutoff valve before you fill the master
reservoir and close it when the nutrient solution empties. After the procedure, it is perfect
time to shift your plants into the buckets.
Tips:
For new indoor plants, sunlight would be very harsh for them. Choose a shaded area for
indoor plants in first few weeks or you can introduce plants to sunlight one hour a day.
Gradually, increase the number hours of sunlight per day in a week.
Pesticides are the biggest problem for outdoor gardening and hence use good quality
pesticides for the plants. You can also rely on spray mix for prevention from pests and
insects. Find shady spot for less heat-bearable plants and make sure the electrical equipment
you use for the gardening should be protected from rain.
For more Tips visit Hydroponics Nutrients Blog.