History of Hydroponics

Hydroponics is one way of growing plants withoutIt was during the 16th century when there was a
the help of any traditional methods. When itneed felt to protect the horticultural crops which
comes to gardening then one gets the idea thatwere dying because of cold. Several techniques
one need's an open space and proper tools thatwere devised but seldom any of them proved
are used in gardening. Moreover a traditionaleffective. Starting from bell jars, glass lanterns,
gardening involves a lot of effort and money.hot beds and cold frames to low portable wooden
However, when it comes to Hydroponics thenframes that were covered with oiled paper of the
each and every notion is changed. With17th century, all these techniques were in vain.
Hydroponics Gardening you just need some plantsVarious other techniques were also devised for
that you want and a container where you canfulfilling the same purpose. However, all of them
plant those. Hydroponics gardening is also knownwere in vain.
as Soiless Gardening. Therefore there are certainIt was only after the post World War II period
things which you need to take care forwhen the interest in Hydroponics was
Hydroponics gardening.strengthened. With the advent of plastics various
The history of Hydroponics goes back to theprocedures of Hydroponics were simplified. Now
ancient civilizations who unknowingly applied thethe plastics were used for the glazing purposes of
science of Hydroponics. Well at that time theyGreenhouses. Apart from that the plastics were
were not aware of the fact that what they arealso used in making the growing beds. Earlier
employing now will be regarded as one of thethese beds were made of concrete. As plastics
finest forms of gardening in the future. Amongstfacilitated drip irrigation so it was greatly used for
the ancient civilizations it was the Incas, theHydroponics gardening. Though during 1973
Egyptians, the Aztecs and the Babylonians whichHydroponics gardening had to take the back seat
incorporated this method of gardening. Withas the oil prices hiked. Due to this the cost of
hydroponics gardening they not only planted smallCEA heating and cooling also increased manifolds.
plants but also grew crops. They had literallyThus people started avoiding Hydroponics
brought farming in their homes. Thus with thegardening. However after 20 years people again
passage of time this technology which wasstarted taking interest in Hydroponics and started
invented by our ancestors got recognition just aestablishing CEA/Hydroponics systems again.
few centuries back.