Nutrients

Just like us, plants need a nutritious diet to grow healthy and strong. We’ve got a rundown of some of the very best organic and veganic ways to feed them.

Make Your Own Hydroponic Nutrients

Callie

There pros and cons to everything, and it’s no different when you decide to make your own hydroponic nutrient solution. For some, this seems a smart way to keep the cost of the indoor garden to the bare minimum. After all, the price of pre-mixed nutes at garden shops includes costs that have nothing to do with…

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FYI: Banana Peel Fertilizer

There are several reasons that banana waste would be a great source of plant nutrition, but you might be wise to avoid using banana peel fertilizer in organic gardening. In any garden, really. Knowing what I do about the banana industry I wouldn’t even put them in the flower garden or the compost pile. There’s some things you need…
March 19, 2016
Amber

Plant Nutrition Basics

Keeping your plants healthy and thriving is largely due to plant nutrition, whether your garden is indoor hydroponics, or soil-based growing outdoors. Given the right environmental conditions, many flower, fruit, herb, and vegetable plants can be grown in either situation. They are all basically the same, though the purpose of growing them varies from one…
January 16, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Is Hydroponic Organic?

The USDA Thinks So The argument over what can and what cannot be called organic food came into sharp focus this week as farmers staged a protest, dumping compost in a parking lot and gathered a crowd complete with KEEP THE SOIL IN ORGANIC campaign signs, and action group T-shirts. The problem they want to…
November 14, 2015
Amber

Homemade Hydroponic Nutrients

Making your own does save you money with many things, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to know how to whip up a batch of homemade hydroponic nutrients. The problem is that this is a world apart from DIY projects. It’s one thing to build your own birdhouse, make pizza from…
September 1, 2015
Tammy Clayton

Weird Tomatoes: Hormones or Hybrids?

On a trip to the hardware store for some bamboo stakes I stumbled onto something very intriguing… Tomato Blossom Set. The label caught my eye as I passed the shelf – it said: “Speeds Harvest”. Really? What is this stuff? Aah plant hormones. Interesting. We just ran a Grubbycup article about the benefits of natural plant hormones in the Spring…
August 21, 2015
Tammy Clayton