Growing Hydroponic Tomatoes Means Growing Your Tomatoes in a More Efficient Manner

A guide to successfully growing tomatoes hydroponically

Hydroponics systems are the ultimate means of producing super high quality produce - free of harmful herbicides and pesticides. Hydroponics, in a practical sense, means growing plants in an optimally prepared solution of water and nutrients, without soil. For the home gardener, growing hydroponic tomatoes means growing your tomato plants in a more efficient and productive manner, with less labor and time required than if you were to grow them in a standard outdoor garden environment. In most hydroponics tomato systems, you use less water and can grow tomato plants in a smaller space than with conventional gardening. It is these sorts of benefits that often have traditional gardeners transitioning to greenhouse kits and ‘greenhouse gardening’.

In some systems for growing tomatoes hydroponically, a growing medium, such as rock wool, is used in place of soil and food and water are fed directly into the rock wool. In other hydroponics systems, no growing medium is used and the tomato plant’s roots are suspended in a grow channel, where they receive food and water. In hydroponics you provide the exact nutrients your plants need, so they can develop and grow to their fullest potential.

These days there is also much interest in organic hydroponics. Aquaponics - the combination of aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil), provides an organic solution to hydroponic growing. More and more hobbyists are now exploring alternative options for growing produce.

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