Hydroponic and Organic Gardening

There are so many organic gardeners who view hydroponic gardening as non-organic, since it doesn’t use soil as most people would like to. These people usually believe that true organic gardening is nowhere close to possible without rich, loamy soil. To some extent they do have a point, since organic gardening is based on good soil. However, it is sad that they have their minds fixated in such a way that they assume, and ignore the fact that organic hydroponic gardening does exist, and even has some advantages over the traditional organic gardening.

Organic hydroponic gardening works basically in the same way as the conventional organic gardening, the only difference being that but it doesn’t necessarily need to use the soil. This type of gardening relies heavily on the use of water to provide the nutrients needed for plant growth. Apart from that, organic hydroponic gardening will definitely require a means of growing, something solid to put the plant roots into. In this case however, the growing medium will not act as the source of nutrients, however; it is as sterile as a chemically fertilized monoculture wheat field. The growing medium simply acts as a structure by which the plants will root into and also use to hold the nutrient-filled water.

Apart from that, there is also the need to understand that in organic hydroponic gardening the growing medium can be of any organic material. In most cases, so many gardeners usually end up using either Vermiculite orperilte. In the event that you decide to use the former, you have to be very careful when handling vermiculite, because it is a source of asbestos. In the event that you cannot get your hands on this, there are also other options that you can go on and explore, like using straw, cotton, plant fiber or any other organic material that you can lay your hands on.