Hydroponic Lettuce Gardening Made Easy



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Hydroponic Lettuce Greenhouse in Georgia

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Urban Farming: Hydroponics in the City

Found this great video on YouTube! It captures all the excitement of establishing a food source in the middle of a major metropolis. If all the rooftops in Manhattan were to be converted to hydroponic gardens, you could feed millions of people from the harvest! This type of vegetable production is all the rage from Tokyo to Rio to New York City!

Window Farms in New York City

If you want to grow your own lettuce (especially if you live too far from us to buy ours) you may want to get in touch with this experimental group in New York City. When times are tough, growing your own food sounds much better than not being able to afford supermarket vegetables! But don't forget, when it comes to choosing your nutrients. always choose Advanced Nutrients!

Hydroponic Lettuce growing explained

We came across this Discovery Channel video on YouTube and thought that we would share it with you. It will give you an idea of what's involved in growing lettuce hydroponically:



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Hydroponics Rocks!

Great video showing a much larger operation

Chuck and I and our new partners are busy trying to keep our business afloat in these tough economic times. Needless to say, we are too busy to do any extensive blogging. However, I did come across this great video recently. It shows a much larger operation than ours (with many more employees) but it will give you an idea of how hydroponic lettuce is grown, even in our modest greenhouses.

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Chuck and I simply love Scorpion Juice. The name always involves a double take--but when you get to know the wonerful results of using it, the name ceases to be important. It immunizes our salad greens against all sorts of maladies (pests and pathogens) that tend to crop up when you least expect them. And it's perfectly safe to use on edible vegetables--in fact, it's organic.

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Crisp Salad Greens (CSG) is a leading hydroponics supplier of healthy produce!

Chuck and I took some time off to watch the Olympics! Weren't they great? We were in awe of the opening and closing ceremonies and the variety of heroic efforts that graced these past 16 days.

Luckily, we have reliable staff, so that our Greenhouses kept running, while we were both glued to our TV sets. Now we decided to get into shape, so we ride our bikes to work and started getting up early to run a few miles each day.

We are equally zealous about growing our food hydroponically. The high cost of gasoline and energy in general makes us glad that we're close to our retail outlets and thus save on having to transport our produce out of State.

The old system where every vegetable and fruit was grown in either California or Florida is crumbling. Home hydroponics has taken off and we encourage it. It doesn't matter that householders seem to be going into direct competition with us. The more, the merrier. There will always be folks who are not able to grow their own food (or too busy relaxing or working to do so!) and for them, we'll always be there!

I'm making this a very short post, because having taken two weeks off, we have a lot of catching up to do with regard to the business. Our Boston and Specialty Lettuce, our Herbs, and our Pak Choi are doing really well and so far this Summer (is it almost over?) we've had no major problems (knock on wood!).

So please support our suppliers (Advanced Nutrients is our exclusive supplier for hydroponic plant nutrients--they can be accessed via their website at click here.)

Oh, and if you want to start growing your own food at home hydroponically, the first thing you should do is sign up for the best hydroponic newsletter in the business--just type in your e-mail at this url!

Signing off for now, I'm Silvio urging you to eat healthy and start exercising!

Hydroponics is once again proven to be safer

You might have heard of the great tomato scare that hit the headlines in recent weeks. This is once again proof that hydroponics is a cleaner, safer method of growing vegetables than soil ever could be. Not to mention faster, more efficient, and able to produce more yield per square foot than conventional agriculture.

Chuck and I were chuckling (pun intended--couldn't resist) at yet another vegetable grown in soil that was making people sick. It would have been even more humorous if it had not been for that death in Texas, which involved a person on cancer chemo whose immunity had been compromised and could not ward off the e-coli bacteria.

It took investigators a full eight months to figure out how the spinach crop became contaminated some time ago (a cow pasture too close to the spinach fields). I wonder how long it will take for the tomato scare to be pinned on one type of pollution or another.

Our salad greens, herbs, and pak choi are selling well and Chuck and I with our other partners are contemplating building some more greenhouses to grow tomatoes. Of course, we are hesitating since tomatoes are having such a bad rep at the moment, it will take some time to restore the public's confidence in them. We've switched to eating cherry tomatoes with our salads, since that particular variety is not affected. And we're looking around for a hydroponic supplier even for that small variety.

Grow hydroponically--and that goes for all vegetables! We've found some excellent blogsites that are spreading the gospel of hydroponics, and they focus on leeks, soybeans, dwarf avocado trees, and peppers of every variety. Click on http://www.hubpages.com/hub/hydroponic_advanced in order to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Another way to learn all about hydroponics is by subscribing to the Advanced Nutrients newsletter, simply by clicking here and filling out you e-mail address. It comes regularly into your mailbox and is filled with helpful facts about setting up your very own indoor hydroponics garden.

We hope to post more often in the coming months, but we are still extremely busy supplying our retail outlets with our outstanding produce.

Hydroponics Gaining in Popularity

Our expansion activities are keeping us so busy, that we haven't had a chance to update this blog in a while. However, we are gratified to report that hydroponics is increasingly the method of choice for growers of vegetables and salad greens, like ourselves. Healthy competition has always helped motivate growers and the popularity of growing lettuce, herbs, and pak choi in greenhouses using hydroponics is spurring me and my partners on to a new level of productivity.

We're hoping to return to regular blogging soon. Until then, please visit a squidoo page that was just launched and promises to be great reading for hydroponics enthusiasts, like ourselves.

Oh, and Advanced Nutrients is sending out an important "Seven Secrets" report that every hydroponics grower will benefit from. Click on the link and increase your yields!

Expansion successful, carbon footprint a concern

Wendy and Ernie’s company, We Promote, has done its job. Just as construction finished on our four new greenhouses and subsequent to our September launch, the increased orders that poured in justified the expansion.

One thing that Chuck and I weren’t too thrilled about was that some of these new orders were from countries such as New Zealand, where it is Spring now, instead of Fall. “Think of the carbon footprint,” exclaimed Chuck, “we’re helping the Globe go to hell in a handbasket.”

“It’s a fact of life that lettuce producers have to live with,” explained Wendy. When it’s time for rain and snow, instead of sunshine, people in the Northern Hemisphere stop eating so many salads and concentrate on hot soups, instead.

We tried to come up with alternatives to shipping our lettuce, packed in ice, to New Zealand, so Wendy promised that they will increase our promotional efforts in countries that are a bit closer, like Mexico.

“Yeah, well instead of jet fuel you’ll be increasing carbon emissions by burning diesel in those giant transport trucks,” countered Chuck. Wendy promised to look into transport by freight train, in refrigerated compartments. “Freight trains pollute much less than trucks,” asserted our new partner.

Chuck and I were hoping that we could sell all we produce in a hundred-mile radius, and one day we might actually accomplish that goal. We have to go on local media and extol the virtues of eating a lot of lettuce, even in Winter.

“Our pak choi greenhouses sell all of the vegetables they grow within the immediate neighborhood. So you could always convert every greenhouse to pak choi production,” said Wendy.

Chuck wasn’t too thrilled to hear that. We’re essentially lettuce producers, with sidelines in pak choi and herbs. To turn everything over to the Chinese vegetable would require changing our view of ourselves.

“Let’s stay with the business plan that we subscribed to when we signed our partnership agreement,” I said. “But let’s try to build customers closer to home and elevate people’s awareness of the health benefits of lettuce, even in Fall and Winter.”

A huge order arrived from Advanced Nutrients, and an entire storage shed got filled up with Micro, Grow, Humic and Fulvic Acids, Sensi Cal Mg Grow, Piranha, Tarantula, Voodoo Juice, as well as Seaweed Extract, Scorpion Juice, and Barricade.

“At least we agree on this,” said Ernie, “that Advanced Nutrients makes the best possible food for our produce, and may they live long and prosper and continue to provide us with them.”

“Hear, hear!” exclaimed Chuck, then rushed off for another radio interview about lettuce and its health benefits.

I’ve not been blogging regularly in recent weeks. There’s so much going on that I just don’t have time each week. Please bear with us until more time is available for this very valuable means of communication.