Flower gardeners spend a great deal of time thinking about the soil in their land. This makes flower gardening appear hard and because of this passion for soil, a few consider hydroponic gardening.
Growing of vegetables hydroponically means that plants are grown without using soil but use water and essential nutrients. The system can also be used all year round. Growing plants hydroponically often yields more, requires less space and uses less water than conventional gardening. Integrating flowers and vegetables in this system does more than pretty up the vegetable patch as it can be also beneficial.
Benefits of hydroponic floriculture
In this system, results are much faster, you can tailor your nutrients to each plant species , there are no weeds, insects and less diseases to contend with too.
Hydroponic gardening systems have some advantages over conventional soil culture. These advantages are; quick results in terms of growth and plants also grow up to 50% faster than those growing in soil thus boasts greater flower yields.
More benefits
Growing of flowers in a hydroponics system gives you complete control over both nutrients delivery and pH balance allowing you to tailor the environment to the needs of each species.
To sum up, without a physical barrier of soil, plants do not need to expend as much energy in drawing nutrients into their roots in a hydroponic system.
