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hydroponics
hydroponics (soil-less culture or tank farming) Plants grow with their roots in a mineral solution or a moist inert medium (such as gravel) containing the necessary nutrients, instead of soil.
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Hydroponics Industry Hits Pay Dirt in Mainstream Suburbia, States Advanced Nutrients.
Business Wire; 4/11/2008; 623 words
; ...Nutrients has discovered a booming hydroponics industry in suburban neighborhoods...This has increased the use of hydroponics for the propagation of food crops in suburban homes and gardens. "Hydroponics gardening used to be something...
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Advanced Nutrients Flies Giant Aerial Marijuana Bud Banner for Hydroponics Freedom at 2009 Seattle Hempfest.
Newspaper article from: Mental Health Weekly Digest; 8/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...Hempfest, and the Advanced Nutrients hydroponics company is bringing a giant marijuana...celebration of freedom for plant lovers and hydroponics gardeners. According to Advanced Nutrients...and hypocrisy that's plaguing the hydroponics industry now." "In its nearly 20...
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Nevada Burning Man Festival Sees Giant Aerial Marijuana Bud Banner That Protests Hydroponics Hijacking.
Newspaper article from: Telecommunications Weekly; 9/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...Straumietis, co-founder of international hydroponics nutrients manufacturer Advanced Nutrients...services to orchestrate a takeover of hydroponics commerce that hurts growers, retailers...applause for his documented claim that five hydroponics companies (Hydrofarm, Sunlight Supply...
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Hydroponics.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 11/15/2006; 700+ words
; Hydroponics If you've brushed against seaweed...growing plants without soil is called hydroponics (hy-dro-pon-ics). Hydroponic...chlorine. DID YOU KNOW?? The word hydroponics means "working water". History of...
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Advanced Nutrients Flies Giant Aerial Marijuana Bud Banner for Hydroponics Freedom at 2009 Seattle Hempfest
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 8/14/2009; 700+ words
; ...celebration of freedom for plant lovers and hydroponics gardeners. According to Advanced Nutrientsco...and hypocrisy that's plaguing the hydroponics industry now." "In its nearly 20...Nutrients because we tell the truth about hydroponics gardening and medical marijuana...
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The History and Future of Hydroponics.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Irrigation Journal; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...University of California, Davis. Hydroponics has a fascinating history and has...Although numerous studies using hydroponics have been published, much is yet to be learned. History of Hydroponics Centuries before hydroponics was...
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Hydroponics allow for garden-fresh veggies all year long.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...round if you grow veggies and herbs with an indoor home hydroponics system. Basically, hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil, says Carl Anderson of Virginia Hydroponics in Virginia Beach, Va.. ``Without soil, weeds are...
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Rooting for hydroponics ; The state's largest hydroponic farm, the Libra Foundation's latest venture, is coming to fruition in New Gloucester
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 10/28/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Maine) 10-28-2003 Rooting for hydroponics ; The state's largest hydroponic farm...businesses statewide. What's hydoponics? Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without...nutrient- rich water. Plants raised with hydroponics don't need to develop large root systems...
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Classroom hydroponics
Magazine article from: Green Teacher; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...hydroponic gardening as a teaching tool. Hydroponics is a word derived from Greek that roughly...last a lifetime. A brief history of hydroponics Civilizations throughout history have...garden lily ponds. One application of hydroponics that has driven research during the...
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Just Add Water, Hold the Dirt; At Hydroponics Farm, Growing Season Is Year-Round
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; Loudoun County's only commercial hydroponics farm started with two old friends...interest in gardening, particularly hydroponics -- the cultivation of crops in water...professional bona fides, but he had seen a hydroponics farm at Epcot Center that fascinated...
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Hydroponics
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Hydroponics Hydroponics is the process of growing plants in a mixture of mineral nutrients...without the use of any type of soil. The two major features of hydroponics are the use of liquid solutions for plant growth and the support...
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hydroponics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hydroponics growing of plants without soil in water to which nutrients have been added. Hydroponics has been used for over a century as a research...States and many other countries. Under hydroponics, plants can be grown closer together than...
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Plants
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...usually for commercial purposes. Cf. hydroponics. — aquapontic, adj. aquiculture hydroponics. — aquicultural, adj. auxography...n. — hydrophytic, adj. hydroponics the science of growing plants in specially...
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water gardening
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
water gardening see hydroponics .
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soilless gardening
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
soilless gardening see hydroponics .
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