Can Plants Grow Without Soil Effectively?

Can Plants Grow Without Soil Effectively?

Not only can plants be grown without soil, soil free gardening is becoming increasingly popular. Many people are starting to discover that soil is not always the best medium for growing plants. One method in particular is changing the way a lot of the world is starting to look at the way we grow food.

There are many problems with growing plants in the soil. First of all, you have to actually be lucky enough to have a piece of land with good enough soil for growing anything. working the soil is a lot of work, digging tilling, adding organic material. Then there are weeds to pull, and gophers and other pests to deal with before they eat your plants.

But plants don't really need soil in order to grow. Plants grow in the soil because that is what is available on the surface of the earth. Plants just use the soil to anchor their roots and to absorb water and nutrients out of it. If you supply plants with water and nutrients, and a way to keep them from falling over, plants will grow just fine without any soil.

There are many ways to grow plants in water without soil, called hydroponics. This can be as simple as growing a plant with the roots in a jar of water in front of your window. Or more sophisticated systems that pump water and nutrients to through grow beds. Plants can even be grown with their roots in the air in a nutrient enriched spray mist, called aeroponics. But a method that may be growing faster than any other is aquaponics.

Aquaponics is a way to grow fish and plants together in a way where they both take care of each other. It may sound like a strange combination, but fish and plants make excellent growing companions that can help each other greatly. Fish produce wastes that they release from their gills and in their excrement that are full of plant nutrients. Plants can get everything they need to grow from fish water and the air. When fish water is circulated through a grow bed, without soil, plants can grow very well and can produce high quality vegetables that are all organic, since fish wastes are truly an organic fertilizer.

And now it all gets even better. Plant roots also help the fish by removing these waste materials that would become toxic to the fish if allowed to build up. This is a way to grow plants an fish very effectively and without much work on your end, because it is a system that mostly takes care of itself.

Learn how to set up your own aquaponics system with this aquaponics how to guide.

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