Can I Grow Hydroponic Herbs All Year Round?
Are you like me? I love having fresh herbs available all year round to put in my salads, sauces and my hot dishes.
I am a great lover of fresh herbs with my most popular being basil, thyme, mint, parsley, coriander and rosemary.
I do also grow oregano, dill and fennel (another herb I love in salads).
I use so much of these herbs that I have to grow them hydroponically so that I can have them through the winter months.
Now you might not want to go to the extent of a full-blown grow room just yet if you are a beginner, but that does not matter because growing herbs is a great way to start your hydroponic experience and there are other means by which you can do this.
Most people do not realize, but there are well over a hundred different ways to grow hydroponically.
Just because you are using hydroponics for growing your herbs it does not mean that you have to have some huge complicated system, because you do not.
You could use a passive hydroponics dripper system to grow your herbs, but keep it small when you first start growing.
Keeping in mind the dripper system, you could have say, 3 largish pots, about 14", with four herbs in each and that would give you a very good selection of herbs for your use.
All they need is to be setup near a window that gets good hours of sunshine throughout the day.
Alternatively you could use another small system which is set up with lights which would be a complete unit on its own.
This would be ideal if you do not get much sunlight in winter.
There is another system that could be used for the leafy types of herbs like oregano, thyme, parsley and others you may prefer, as it uses a platform nestled into the top of a plastic reservoir.
You have probably realized by now that there are several methods that you could utilize to grow your herbs at home and which are comparatively small setups to start with.
Small hydroponic systems could be the passive type where the nutrient infused water sits in a reservoir with the pots suspended in it, or an active system where the water is pumped around and passes over the roots as they dangle below.
The active system could mean that you are growing your herbs in a reservoir with moving water or you could also grow them in something like a tube where the water is pushed along the tube and back into a reservoir before being passed back over the roots again.
Some research will help you decide on the type of system you want to start with to grow your beautiful fresh herbs and probably some other plants as well like lettuces and strawberries.
I am a great lover of fresh herbs with my most popular being basil, thyme, mint, parsley, coriander and rosemary.
I do also grow oregano, dill and fennel (another herb I love in salads).
I use so much of these herbs that I have to grow them hydroponically so that I can have them through the winter months.
Now you might not want to go to the extent of a full-blown grow room just yet if you are a beginner, but that does not matter because growing herbs is a great way to start your hydroponic experience and there are other means by which you can do this.
Most people do not realize, but there are well over a hundred different ways to grow hydroponically.
Just because you are using hydroponics for growing your herbs it does not mean that you have to have some huge complicated system, because you do not.
You could use a passive hydroponics dripper system to grow your herbs, but keep it small when you first start growing.
Keeping in mind the dripper system, you could have say, 3 largish pots, about 14", with four herbs in each and that would give you a very good selection of herbs for your use.
All they need is to be setup near a window that gets good hours of sunshine throughout the day.
Alternatively you could use another small system which is set up with lights which would be a complete unit on its own.
This would be ideal if you do not get much sunlight in winter.
There is another system that could be used for the leafy types of herbs like oregano, thyme, parsley and others you may prefer, as it uses a platform nestled into the top of a plastic reservoir.
You have probably realized by now that there are several methods that you could utilize to grow your herbs at home and which are comparatively small setups to start with.
Small hydroponic systems could be the passive type where the nutrient infused water sits in a reservoir with the pots suspended in it, or an active system where the water is pumped around and passes over the roots as they dangle below.
The active system could mean that you are growing your herbs in a reservoir with moving water or you could also grow them in something like a tube where the water is pushed along the tube and back into a reservoir before being passed back over the roots again.
Some research will help you decide on the type of system you want to start with to grow your beautiful fresh herbs and probably some other plants as well like lettuces and strawberries.
