Hydroponic Basics by George F. Van Patten

This simple, little book is packed with information on hydroponic gardening. The graphic color, layout, and design helps guide a hydroponic gardener through basic plant science and environment to purchasing a garden and appropriate supplies. Plans for making your own hydroponic garden, nutrient deficiencies, plant problems, and growing a garden, beginning to end, are all included in this invaluable guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Van Patten Publishing (December 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878823256
• ISBN-13: 978-1878823250
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.2 x 0.1 inches

Hydroponic Gardening: Growing Without Soil

Providing nutrient formulas and specific hydroponic gardening techniques, this guide explains how to quickly grow healthy indoor plants and premium-grade vegetables. Praising the benefits of hydroponic gardening, such as eliminating weeds and protecting crops from bad weather and insects, the guide also explicates why this unique hobby is ideal for people with back and knee problems and for those who have limited space. The manual also explains how to select a basic hydroponic system, automate a system, start plants and seeds, and prevent diseases and pests.

About the Author

Wyatt Ferber is a professor of crop physiology, a member of the Crop Science Society of America, and a member of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He lives in Logan, Utah.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Silverleaf Press (March 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934393371
• ISBN-13: 978-1934393376

Gardening Indoors with Soil and Hydroponics 5th Edition

Gardening Indoors with Soil and Hydroponics 5th Edition by George F. Van Patten is expanded and completely rewritten with all new information. More than 670 full color photos, drawings, charts and graphs illustrate every detail of this authoritative easy-to-understand book. This book is very user-friendly, easy to read. Numerous simple cultivation solutions make it appealing to novice gardeners. Seasoned gardeners are also able to find answers to all their questions. Discover how to achieve the biggest best yields even with limited space and a small budget. The former title, Gardening Indoors: the Indoor Gardener s Bible, changed to Gardening Indoors Growing with Soil & Hydroponics. Gardening Garden Rooms Greenhouses Lighting Fertilizers Soil Hydroponics Seeds Seedlings Vegetative Growth Cuttings Flowering Harvesting Diseases and Pests Plant Selection Guide.

Book Details

• Paperback: 366 pages
  
• Publisher: Van Patten Publishing; 5th edition (November 26, 2007)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 1878823329
  
• ISBN-13: 9781878823328
  
• Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
  
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How-To Hydroponics 4th Edition

How-To Hydroponics 4th Edition by Keith F. Roberto has been completely revised to share with you the incredible benefits of hydroponic gardening in a hands-on, easy to follow format that anyone can understand. Hydroponics is healthy, safe and fun for the whole family, as a hobby, or means of additional income.

Learn Hands-On At Your Own Pace
Which plants to grow, how to start from seeds and how to take cuttings to preserve, and propagate your favorite plants. Learn what makes plants grow and how to create the perfect garden environment indoors and out, even how to grow year round! How-To Hydroponics can help anyone overcome a brown thumb!

Step-By-Step Plans And Photographs
Learn to build and operate eight types of hydroponic systems from inexpensive materials and save hundreds, even thousands of dollars doing so. How-To Hydroponics covers everything from practical theory to hands-on applications and includes everything you need to know to start growing with this exciting technology today!

The Latest Tips, Techniques & Technology
How-To Hydroponics, 4th edition, has been completely revised which means more of the latest tips, techniques and technology including Aeroponics, which takes hydroponics to the next level to achieve even greater results from your hydroponic gardening efforts!

About the Author
Keith Roberto first wrote How-To Hydroponics in 1994 as a way to help gardeners and do it yourselfers break the price barrier of commercially available hydroponic systems by building their own, inexpensive systems from plans included in the book.
His goal was to teach the inside secrets to all who were curious so they too could enjoy the wonderful benefits of hydroponic gardening without the high price tag of commercial systems. The first edition of How To Hydroponics was reviewed by the industries leading magazine, The Growing Edge, and received a very strong recommendation by their staff. Ever since, Keith has made How To Hydroponics a work in progress, constantly adding and revising its content to reflect the most technologically advanced and most productive means for employing the hydroponic method of agriculture.

Book Details

• Paperback: 101 pages
  
• Publisher: Futuregarden; 4th edition (August 2003)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 0967202612
  
• ISBN-13: 9780967202617
  
• Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
  
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Hydroponics for the Home Gardener: An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide for growing healthy vegetables, herbs and house plants without soil

Hydroponics for the Home Gardener: An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide for growing healthy vegetables, herbs and house plants without soil by Stewart Kenyon is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to growing organic, healthy vegetable, herbs and house plants without soil.
Clearly illustrated with black and white line drawings, the book covers every aspect of home hydroponic gardening including:

• Building a hydroponic system versus buying a kit.
  
• Plant propagation and indoor pollination.
  
• Outdoor hydroponics, recipes, and much more.
  

About the Author
Stewart Kenyon has studied, designed and retailed home hydroponic systems for over thirty years.

Book Details

• Paperback: 146 pages
  
• Publisher: Key Porter Books; Reprint of Revised edition edition (February 5, 2005)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 1550133756
  
• ISBN-13: 9781550133752
  
• Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
  
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