Home Hydroponics

Book excerpt: Hydroponic growing is about to get a facelift. Unlike other hydroponic books on the market, which offer strictly utilitarian growing system plans, the DIY hydroponic designs found here are as attractive as they are useful. They fit perfectly into your living space, regardless of whether home is a flat in the city, a corner lot in suburbia, or a sizeable homestead. Organized by where they'll operate in your home (kitchen, bath, living room, and more!), these small-space DIY hydroponic setups will have you harvesting your own fresh lettuce, stir-fry greens, herbs, and even tomatoes, mushrooms, and edible flowers. Hydroponic-growing pro Tyler Baras (aka Farmer Tyler) shows you how easy it is to build your own soilless growing systems. Food grown hydroponically travels only a few feet from "garden" to plate. Inside You'll Find: Fully illustrated, easy-to-follow plans for building fourteen different home-based hydroponic systems to grow food indoors, The nuts and bolts of hydroponic growing, including how to: select and mix the nutrient solution, set up and run grow lights, and troubleshoot, Techniques for starting seeds and cuttings of the best hydroponic crops, Charts of crop options with spacing, lighting, humidity, and temperature requirements Say goodbye to the need for a separate grow room or tucking your plants into a corner of the basement. Turn a coffee table, kitchen counter, bathroom wall, bedside table, or windowsill into a wonder of hydroponic production with Tyler's project plans and growing instructions. Book jacket.