Hydroponic Gardening Science Projects
I'm sure you've seen the pretty head of lettuce in the stores and you also have noticed the prices on the greens! You can easily double nearly perfect greens in your own kitchen throughout the year with hydroponic gardening. A small initial investment is needed, but after making this purchase you can grow many crops year-round in their own home for many years to come.
This new technology allows you to grow your lettuce greens in a clean and free of pests. The soil is used and there are not many units available for purchase that comes complete with everything you need, including lighting and nutrients required. You need only supply of drinking water and electricity.
A great benefit of growing your own lettuce and other crops home is no loss of vitamins, antioxidants and phytonutrients such as exists with the store bought vegetables. Even the quality of organic lettuce and other products has a loss substantial amount of vitamins due to shipping time, half an hour, and the product on the shelves until the last possible moment to sell. Harvest as you need it and it remains fresh and vitamin packed!
No need to worry about food-born illnesses when you grow your own lettuce! food-born disease has been a real problem with green bags in the recent past. In 2006 there were an outbreak that sickened 26 people in 3 states, Dr. Steve Swanson of Centers for Disease Control and Department of Minnesota Public Health said in an interview with Dateline NBC, April 30, 2006, "is a remarkable fact that most are not aware that the flesh side ground, the lettuce is the most common food item for E.coli 0157 infections. "Do not get me wrong, I still use green bags at the time, but I rewash it and re-bag it. No need to panic about green bags, but taking precautions is the only prudent thing to do. Grow your own lettuce completely eliminate any concern.
Growing your own hydroponic lettuce is fast! You can literally be harvested within 3 weeks. Kids like to see it in action! Children are rewarded quickly for rapid growth of these cultures and therefore not lose interest. Children can help harvest and make the salad for the family. Your pride can help in deepening their knowledge on plant growth and to help them develop habits healthy eating. This unit could even make a great science fair project! Compare lettuce grown in hydroponics with the unit of lettuce grown in a traditionally window.
What I like best in hydroponic unit I have is seeing my culture is fully revealed in the middle of winter! I live in the Midwest and even my houseplants winter look tired by mid-January! What a joy to see a culture that I can harvest indeed! You can see that one of these units seems hydroponic rel = "nofollow" href = "http://www.squidoo.com/freshbasil-favoriteways-growitallyear"> here. Consider buying one of these units for your home!
I love growing things! Growing things my family can eat is just the icing on the cake! Err, lettuce on my sandwich? Find out about growing your own fresh cops year round here
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