HORTICITY is a company specializing in planning, designing and implementing systems for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables in urban areas.
The garden made popular in the building of Via Gandusio
Horticity helps to satisfy the desire / passion to grow a vegetable garden on the terrace (mini-orchard) by creating a little piece of nature where not only grow traditional herbs (basil, rosemary and mint), but also tomatoes, zucchini and lettuce for home.
The techniques used are those typical of intensive crops off the ground but suitably modified to fit the space requirements, input and care of their little domestic production.
Horticity is also committed to the promotion and dissemination of the social value of the practice in urban horticulture and through participation in projects implementation and management of community gardens that provide counseling and training to associations of horticulturists.
To lose a small hydroponic system easy to implement, requiring no special manual skills it 'a lot of money? Here, a classic dry system, which lends itself well to the early experiments, and that you can build in minutes. So let's see how to make this very simple system out of the ground with automated irrigation.
Definitely one of the most admired flowers, the rose is grown and sold.
For years now dominates the flower market and existing varieties are countless. Although not a very demanding plant, settling for six hours of light, not too high a temperature and a few extra carbon dioxide, is often at the heart of the unwanted attentions of various weeds.
These attacks can be controlled with classical methods, and soilless cultivation it certainly helps to limit their scope.
But let's see how to structure a rose hydroponics.
First of all, the space. The bushes can grow quite large, so you should check before buying which variety adapts to available. A rose that does not grow too would be preferred. When planning the plan and for each plant an area of at least 120 square cm.
Worthy of consideration is the size of the mature plant, so that is not too close to the pink side, so as to ensure adequate lighting and air circulation.
The 'bucket hydroponic' Hydrobucket idrosistema is a do-it-yourself plan designed to accommodate a medium or large, but you can easily adjust the size to your needs. The design is thought to be as simple as possible and to permit the use of the lower number of parts.
It also does not require any special skills for assembly and is cheap.
Make a sort of hydroponic gardens powered by the sun's heat, which requires almost no maintenance, recycled materials? Possible.
It takes very little money and is not even required a particular skill. Certainly in terms of aesthetics has seen better, but using your imagination you can definitely make some improvements just to the eye.
So, what we see is a prototype system of this kind Ebb & Flood. Is based on the physical principle for which the temperature of the gas trapped in the tank leads to an increase of the volume of the gas itself.
Orchids have always been considered among the most beautiful plants you can grow, declined by nature with an incredible variety of shapes and colors.
The visible roots, thick and white, and the elongated shape of the leaves serve to enrich the charm of beautiful flowers. Is surprising therefore the number of enthusiasts who grow orchids just for the pleasure of watching them.
In the rain forest and various tropical plants grow freely on these logs, or rocks covered with moss on these surfaces rainwater flows by making a perfect level of water and oxygen, while the roots derive nourishment from decaying vegetation. There is no ground, in which grow many orchids that you can define a hydroponic medium by nature. Read more ...
The plants subtract from the nutrient solution fertilizers and water simultaneously, but not necessarily to the same extent.
In a hot climate such as the plants tend to "drink" more, and together with the high evaporation rate makes this the concentration of nutrients is too high. To maintain stable and under control of the equilibrium solution is necessary to monitor the EC or electrical conductivity.
This value is the only way we can determine exactly how many nutrients are still present in the water. A presence too high will damage the plants, while too little will track deficiencies and development slowed. To detect the EC using a special instrument that indicates the amount of salts (total, so no distinctions) dissolved. There are several models of portable or fixed gauges with probes of different price ranges.
Hydroponics is a technique we now know as profitable and efficient, but how to make it more productive?
Creating rotating systems course.
Here is then the advanced designs of Omega Garden , patented to reach the maximum simplicity together to crops ever more abundant, both in the cultivation housewife who in the industrial one.
Let's look in detail at the proposed catalog.
For the amateur grower the product is the ad hoc Volksgarden , which can accommodate up to eighty plants and simultaneously add a touch definitely unusual furnishings.
Pick fruit and vegetables directly from the plant is the dream of many people who dream of organic food and contact with nature. In 2019 this could become a reality in England, where the public can easily go to the supermarket and pick from plants and trees as much as he pleases. The idea of Futurlab, important company believes to have identified an area of attractive investment offering hydroponic directly shelves in supermarkets. Within the retail areas would present greenhouse, where grow mushrooms, strawberries, potatoes, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, and more. As in any produce section the customer will simply choose the goods, weigh it and put it in the cart. The greenhouses in question are conceived as hydroponic / aeroponic and without the use of substrate. Read more ...
