Indoor Hydroponics Systems - Your Key to Year Round Fresh Vegetables

By J Ruppel

Growing vegetables year round can be a challenge in most of the US. The winter months won't support any type of outdoor gardening in most of the US, and in the southern states many types of vegetables won't survive the summer heat and drought.

But growing vegetables indoors can be a real challenge as well. Proper lighting is always an issue, as most vegetables want 8 hours or more of sunlight a day. Of course many vegetables such as corn or large vining plants like cantaloupe are just not practical even if you could create enough lighting to support them.

But it's not at all out of the question to grow small leafy vegetables for salads, and many herbs can be grown indoors as well. These generally are not heavy feeders, so they are also well suited for a hydroponics system.

One of the more popular systems for growing container vegetables indoors is the Aerogrow AeroGarden system. It includes room for several seed pods and a built in adjustable height grow light. With a microprocessor based controller, the flow of nutrients in the hydroponics system and the timing of the grow lights are optimized for the specific type of plant that you are growing at the time. By varying the height of the grow light as the plants increase in size, you are able to maintain the optimum growing conditions for weeks at a time.

Another advantage to the AeroGarden indoor garden system is the variety of seed types available for the system. You can grow a variety of lettuce, spinach, cherry tomatoes, herbs, chili peppers and even petunias. With this large a variety of plants, some folks find they need more than one hydroponic system to keep up.

But there are a handful of things to watch for when you are growing vegetables indoors...

To learn more about the AeroGarden system (or Areogarden as some spell it), take a look at our Aerogarden review at http://howtogardenguide.com to see videos of the Aerogarden in action.

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