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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.

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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.