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Hydroponics Gardening verses Organic Gardening: Which Grows the Best Cannabis?

Tip! Life-time gardener Judith Schwader specializes in organic gardening methods. She shares expertise, humor, and advice for your gardening success at A to Z Gardening.

Copy-write 2005 Jan Money.

Hydroponics gardening offers many advantages to the cannabis grower. In fact hydroponics gardening is probably the number one source all cannabis that is cultivated in the U.K. It seems these days that even though cannabis is still illegal in the U.K. most people know at least one person that grows their own cannabis. These growers may well start off growing organically but quite often soon progress to a hydroponics garden because of the many advantages.

What are the advantages to hydroponics gardening to grow cannabis?

Firstly, once you have your hydroponics garden set up properly, you only need to spend five minutes a day maintaining the system. Secondly, it is possible to produce a much higher yield compared to growing organically. It is possible to produce over ten times the yield of an organic crop. Also as you are not using soil to grow the plants with, you see a massive reduction in the pests that may try to infest your plants and make them unhealthy. Hydroponics gardening also produces some of the strongest weed you’ll ever find. THC levels have raised to very high levels over recent years.

Tip! Having led up to all of that, a good question might arise as to exactly why you would want to indulge in organic gardening as such! Well, as the title of this articles suggests, here are six good reasons why you should do so, in my opinion at any rate.

What are the advantages of growing organically?

Well, first off, the nutrients that are used to grow the cannabis hydroponically can be harmful to the environment if it is not disposed of properly.
Secondly, sometimes the hit that you get from hydroponic weed is just so strong that it can blow your head off and you literally can’t get it together to do anything. Whereas the organic hit is not quite so mind blowing and is more of a milder buzz that doesn’t make you so paranoid which can sometimes be the case.

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Jan Money is a freelance writer from Poole, Dorset, England. Jan has been writing gardening articles since 2005.

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Organic Gardening Intro

Tip! Life-time gardener Judith Schwader specializes in organic gardening methods. She shares expertise, humor, and advice for your gardening success at A to Z Gardening.

Organic gardening is easy to learn, it can save you money, and it can provide you and your family with a beautiful lush garden full of fresh produce. To garden organically you’ll want to learn how to worm compost, make compost tea, and regular plain old compost.

Organic gardening can save you money, it’s good for our envirnonment, and it’s just plain fun. It can also serve as a good learning experience for your children. If you have a decent sized yard with a tree or two then you probably have enough leaves to start a compost bin. A compost bin doesn’t have to be fancy, it can be just 4 takes in the ground with chicken wire wrapped around them. But, if you can afford it they make some very nice compost tumblers for a hundred dollars or more. If you’re quite the handy man, you can even make a compost tumbler yourself. That’s a whole nother article though, I’m afraid. A good compost tumbler is easy to turn and aerate your organic matter. Aeration is essential to making compost fast. The natural composting process will happen on it’s own over a period of several months to a year or more. But, if you want to acelerate the process and get more compost more often, you need a compost tumbler.

Tip! I believe Organic Gardening brings us most (or all) of these things. Some of the practices that are a must for having a healthy, high yielding vegetable garden include strategies or systems that bring about healthy soil, deep watering, balanced insect populations and crop rotation / planning.

Compost tumblers are great for your excess outdoor garden trimmings, but there is something else called a worm bin that you need for your excess kitchen scraps. A properly designed worm bin has several levels whereby worms can travel freely to and from. Once they digest the bottom layer of kitchen scraps, they can travel up to the layer above to begin working on new scraps. The bottom layer can be easily removed to harvest the good soil that the worms leave behind. Once, you have purchased a worm bin, you’re going to need to purchase some composting worms. The worm that is best adapted for worm bins is called a red worm. Earthworms prefer to dig down deep in your garden soil to do their good work, but they do not do well in worm bins. You’ll want to get yourself at least a pound of red worms to start your worm bin off to a good start. If you can afford it get two or three pounds of worms.

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I hope I have spurred your interest in learning more about organic gardening with this brief introduction to the practice. There are plenty of more resources online to learn more about organic gardening. Please feel free to post a question in my organic gardening forum if you have additional questions and I’ll do my best to find an answer for you.

Why Organic Gardening?

Tip! From a high-level view, organic gardening is a simple way to grow fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in an all-natural environment. This means that nothing is treated with pesticides or herbicides and that everything grown is clean, natural, and healthy.

Gardening has always taken a great part in human life, either as the need for body sustenance, or for spiritual uplifting. Growing plants makes the connection with nature stronger and is considered a mild therapy by many psychologists. Organic gardening in its specificity reinforces the strongest binds with Mother Nature, as it is a true to life way to grow vegetables and fruits, using only the materials provided by nature.

Nowadays many people prefer organic gardening as it has many advantages over other ways of producing plants.

First of all, organic gardening requires your personal involvement in the whole process. The plants need you to supply the soil with fruitful compost. The natural compost is made of kitchen and garden waste, with no chemical pesticides in it.

Chemicals are the second issue solved by organic gardening. When you grow the plants organic, you need not add any artificial substances in the soil. Pesticides are made of toxins that kill every living thing in the natural environment. They can be extremely harmful for the human body, as well. Organic gardening contains no risk for any living creature, and saves the life balance in the surroundings.

Tip! ~~Soil~~ In an organic gardening system, soil health is fundamental to success. Even though natural fertilizers and other inputs are used in organic gardening, they are minimized by regular additions of organic material to feed and improve the soil.

The above-mentioned reveals the third advantage of organic gardening: it is harmless for the environment. You can try it and preserve nature. In that way you get two great extras: eating healthy food without being a monster to the living habitat around you. Trees and plants have produced their harvest for millions of years without being propped up with chemical substances. By organic gardening we let nature do something for us, and feed us, as it had feeded our ancestors with delicious food, long before pesticides came into fashion.

By trying organic gardening, you help your children grow up healthy. Many research works show that a child ingests four to five times more cancer-causing pesticides from food than a full-grown adult. The necessity of healthy food for children is not a myth, but a scientifically proven truth.

The last thing that makes organic gardening utterly irresistible for the practical people, is that it is CHEAPER. Pesticides and artificial supplements DO cost a lot of money indeed. But this doesn’t mean that organic gardeners leave things go their own unpredictable way. A devoted gardener always comes up with smart ideas like making cheap compost of coffee grounds. If you want to get rid of aphids, a typical organic gardening tip would be to plant marigolds nearby. There are many do-it-yourself practical advice for making your plants grow stronger. Take mulch, for example. Mulch is done by mixing pine needles and grass clippings. It helps keeping the soil moist and the weeds off. There are many recipes for producing cheap substances to fight against garden pests. The most inexpensive way to make a quart of garden pest spray is by mixing water with one spoon of dishwashing soap and one cup of cooking oil.

Tip! Accordingly, the important aspects of organic gardening will include the following: Those who engage in organic gardening or farming can’t use synthetic or chemical fertilizers and pesticides.There should be a systematic approach in organic gardening.

When taking up organic gardening, you start to feel that you are really doing something useful for the environment and for your health, and the satisfaction is rewarding. Saving money is the other great privilege that an organic gardening practitioner feels over the others.

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Organic Gardening – A Growing Trend

Tip! Nowadays many people prefer organic gardening as it has many advantages over other ways of producing plants.

In the past decade and a half, organic products have achieved almost mainstream status. Where organic produce was a specialty item in a few upscale grocery stores in the early 1990s, today’s supermarkets commonly offer organically produced items.

An upward spiral is happening: Organics have become more available and more affordable. The result is that a larger proportion of the population buys organics. This leads to an increased general awareness of the benefits for people and the environment of organic production.

Greater awareness of the benefits contributes to a greater demand for organic products. Higher demand encourages growers to an even larger production of organics. Increased production results in organics being increasingly available and affordable? and upward the trend goes.

During the 1990s, organic product sales dramatically increased at the rate of more than 20 percent every year. By the beginning of the 21st century, sales of organic products passed the $9 billion mark. Today in 2006, the majority of US consumers (7 out of 10) buy organic food at least some of the time.

These statistics are encouraging indications that organic production is here to stay. This is good news for the well-being of people and the environment.

Tip! I believe Organic Gardening brings us most (or all) of these things. Some of the practices that are a must for having a healthy, high yielding vegetable garden include strategies or systems that bring about healthy soil, deep watering, balanced insect populations and crop rotation / planning.

~~What ORGANIC means~~

Fifteen years ago, organic growers might have had to explain to shoppers at a farmer’s market what the label “organic” means. Today, most people understand that for a product to be labeled organic, it had to be grown without using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or hormone supplements.

But organic growing is a system, and is not just a matter of substituting natural materials for synthetics. Whether on the large scale of the market farmer or the small scale of the backyard gardener, the underlying principles of an organic system are to work within the boundaries of nature to grow healthy food.

The system starts with a focus on healthy soil, which supports healthy plants. When plants are strong, they are naturally disease and pest resistant.

~~Why ORGANIC is better~~

Rather than apply chemicals to cure disease and control pests as conventional growers must do, organic growers are oriented toward prevention through continuous soil improvements. It’s a big difference in attitude: the chemical quick-fix vs. long-term soil building.

The benefits of taking the long-term approach are immediate. Rather than having to keep indoors during a “re-entry interval,” (after using poisonous chemical pesticides, there is a required safety period when people must avoid the area), organic gardeners never experience exile from the location where they grow food.

Also, there is the difference in the effect on local water sources. Organic gardeners don’t contaminate ponds and groundwater with synthetics.

In short, gardeners who live where they grow food have a particular motivation and advantage in using an organic system: personal health and safety. But everyone benefits when organic methods are used because they are sustainable: wholesome food is produced in a system that respects the natural environment.

Tip! Since we are discussing the term ‘Organic’ in a gardening context, it might be a useful start to define exactly what that means, so here it is, ‘Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits with the use of things only found in nature’. Really simple isn’t it, but most certainly not commonplace any more in today’s world I suggest.

Life-time gardener Judith Schwader specializes in organic gardening methods. She shares expertise, humor, and advice for your gardening success at the interactive website A to Z Gardening. Visit now for valuable information to enhance your gardening experience. Also visit FB Home for additional home and garden information.

Organic Gardening – The Pros And Cons

Tip! Although organic gardening does require a few changes in the way things are done from traditional gardening, you will quickly discover organic gardening is easy and fun. With organic gardening, two basic components exist.

Picture three ripe red tomatoes arranged on a wooden cutting board awaiting your pleasure. They’ve each come from a different source: can you tell which one was grown organically?

Two of the tomatoes were lovingly tended in backyards – one in a conventional garden and the other in an organic garden. The third tomato came from the supermarket, and it’s easy to eliminate from the guessing game.

The supermarket tomato is the pale red one the size and shape of a tennis ball. Bred for packing, shipping, and storing, (not flavor), this tomato was picked green, has traveled more than a thousand miles from farm to store, and has sat on the shelf for weeks — looking none the worse for wear.

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Set this one aside. It was definitely not grown organically.

Two remain. For the sake of the game, they are the same tomato variety, let’s say Big Beef slicers. Bright red, they were just picked and are still warm to the touch from afternoon sun.

It’s not so easy to tell the difference in these; we have to look beyond the surface… literally. The quality of the soil from which they grew is the key element to naming the winner of this game: conventional tomato vs. organic tomato.

The chemicals in the fertilizers used in conventional gardens actually break down the health of the soil. Microbes that are necessary for making soil nutrients available to the plants are killed off.

Tip! Backyard organic gardening will require the mysterious world of compost making. This is much more interesting than grabbing some store bought chemical product.

The dead soil requires increasing doses of conventional fertilizer, and still the plants are malnourished, falling prey to insects and disease. Enter the deadly pesticides, sprayed liberally on the plant.

Now, the game is getting serious. One of the two remaining contestants in our tomato contest had better be carefully washed before being eaten; it’s been dusted with poison.

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On the other hand, the organically grown tomato also had fertilizer applied to it, but this fertilizer was made from naturally occurring substances like bone meal, fish emulsion, and rock phosphate. These additions fed the soil and did no harm to the beneficial microbes that make nutrients available for use by plants.

Pesticides probably weren’t necessary because a healthy plant produces its own pest-resistant chemicals. But if there were pests, the organic gardener might have used a home-mixed spray of hot pepper and garlic, or something similarly non-toxic to humans.

There are a few additional techniques the organic gardener probably used, such as tilling in a cover crop to add organic material for the microbes and earthworms to decompose. This process results in a crumbly textured soil that holds moisture and allows the roots to breathe.

But even without the soil improvement from a cover crop, it’s fairly clear which tomato is better for health: the only nutrients that can be found in the fruit had to come from what was available in the soil. The organically grown tomato provides better nutrition.

What is not so clear is which tomato is better for flavor. A test of the ratio of sugar to acid might be made, but that isn’t a big issue. Both the conventionally grown and organically grown tomato are vastly superior in flavor to the poor tomato found in most supermarkets.

Tip! Cost savings, because you do not need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic gardening. Many organic recipes for the control of pest and disease come straight from the kitchen cupboard, and sometimes other plants can even be grown as companions to the main crop.

The original question in this tomato guessing game was whether you could tell which one of those ripe, juicy tomatoes on the cutting board was organic. Turns out that it’s hard to tell just by looking, or even just by tasting.

So, what’s the big issue? Mainly this: sustainability. Conventional growing depletes and eventually destroys the soil. Whereas organic growing techniques actually build and improve the soil.

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In the end, the nutritious organic tomato contributes more to your health, and it is certainly better for the health of the soil from which all future crops will come.

Life-time gardener Judith Schwader specializes in organic gardening methods. She shares expertise, humor, and advice for your gardening success at A to Z Gardening. Also visit FB Home for additional home and garden information.

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