74 Best Hydroponics Books of All Time

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Featuring recommendations from Barack Obama, Adam Savage, Bill Gates, and 4 other experts.
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With practical information aimed at home DIYers, author Tyler Baras (Farmer Tyler to his fans) shows exactly how to build, plant, and maintain over a dozen unique hydroponic systems, some costing just a few dollars to make.

No soil? No sunlight? No problem. A hydroponic growing system gives you the power to grow plants anywhere. Even if you live in an area where water is scarce, a hydroponic system is the answer you’ve been looking for. Hydroponic systems are sealed and do not allow evaporation, making water loss virtually nonexistent. Simply suspend your essential...
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Seveneves

What would happen if the world were ending?

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.

But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain...

Five thousand years later, their progeny -- seven distinct races now three billion strong --...
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Barack ObamaJust like us, the president enjoys a good beach read while relaxing in the sun. In 2016, he released his list of summer vacation books: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins Seveneves, Neal Stephenson The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Source)

Bill GatesSeveneves reminded me of all the things I love about science fiction. It is a great novel to get lost in, learn from, and think about. More than anything else, it has me thinking I should get back to reading sci-fi again. (Source)

Adam SavageA better book [than 'Snow Crash']. (Source)

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This is the ultimate guide to all forms of marijuana growing, expanded and completely rewritten to include information on grow rooms, greenhouses and outdoor growing. Over 1100 colour photos illustrate every detail - and numerous simple cultivation solutions make for easy appeal to novice growers. less

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Aquaponics is a revolutionary system for growing plants by fertilizing them with the waste water from fish in a sustainable closed system. A combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponic gardening is an amazingly productive way to grow organic vegetables, greens, herbs, and fruits, while providing the added benefits of fresh fish as a safe, healthy source of protein. On a larger scale, it is a key solution to mitigating food insecurity, climate change, groundwater pollution, and the impacts of overfishing on our oceans.

Aquaponic Gardening is the definitive...
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In Field Guide to Urban Gardening, author Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening shares the basics of growing plants, offers tips on how to choose the right urban gardening method, and troubleshoots the most common problems you’ll encounter.
 

If you think it’s impossible to grow your own food because you don’t have a large yard or you live in the city…think again. There is a plethora of urban gardening options to create beautiful, productive edible gardens no matter where you live. The key to succeeding as an urban gardener is to choose the method(s) that make sense...
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Do you want to quickly grow fresh vegetables from home without the use of dirty soil? Then keep reading...


“It used to be hydroponics was just a nod, nod, wink, wink, word for pot growing. Now it is accepted by consumers as a preferred method of growing high-quality food.”


- Michael R. Christian, Founder of American Hydroponics


Are you tired of looking for pesticide-free produce? Let alone paying for them?


Are you looking for a new hobby where providing healthy and fresh vegetables is your goal?

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Grubbycup's Garden Notes

Grubbycup's Gardening Notes is an introduction to indoor hydroponic gardening. Beginning gardeners are encouraged to try hydroponics. Starting with a simple budget passive system, the reader is guided through a variety of useful concepts used in soil and hydroponic gardening. Real world advice is included such as including drip loops on electrical cords help prevent garden mishaps. Topics include garden preparation, hydroponic media choices, lighting, hydroponic systems, nutrition, composting, and general indoor gardening advice. Included is an illustration of basic breeding concepts using a... more

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Hydroponics for the Home Grower

Hydroponics offers many advantages to traditional soil-based horticulture. These include greater control over many of the limiting factors, such as light, temperature, and pests, as well as the ability to grow plants in all seasons. With instruction from one of the top recognized authorities worldwide, Hydroponics for the Home Grower gives you step-by-step guidance on how to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, arugula, bok choy, and various herbs year-round within your home or in a backyard greenhouse.

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Citizen of the Galaxy

In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders — a league of merchant princes — throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society's lowest rung. But Thorby's destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth... more

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Microgreens

Intense Hydroponic Grows

Version: Black & White. There is a color version available.Do you want to grow pounds of microgreens in limited space? Brent details how. Microgreens are a phenomenon. There's no question. How-to tutorials abound with tons of content out there to emulate. What makes Hydroponics - Intense Hydroponic Grows different is style. Brent takes his love of hydroponics and creates a platform that is quite nearly set it and forget it. His unique growing method produces pristine microgreens without the use of any media such as soil, coco coir, peat, potting mix, hemp mats, and burlap-nothing. As he... more

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Cannabis

A Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana

This is the most accessible, attractive, and easy-to-use beginner's guide to growing marijuana. In only 144 illustrated pages, High Times editor, Danny Danko, covers the basics of successful pot cultivation. This book is a primer that covers:



The basics of setting up a grow room
Genetics and seeds
Germination
Sexing
Cloning
Building buds
Harvesting
Pest, fungi, molds, and deficiencies
Concentrates, edibles, tinctures, and topicals
This is the novice marijuana grower's handbook that guides readers through the absolute...
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Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because... more

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Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive guide to soilless culture with extensively new and updated contents from the previous edition published in 2001. Meant for hobby and commercial growers, the book:



Shows the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of the many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops Provides background in plant physiology and nutrition essential for growing these crops...
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Revolutionary hydroponic/soilless advances are being achieved by efficiently improving results with the application of new concepts, methods, and equipment. The new edition of a bestseller, Hydroponics: A Practical Guide for the Soilless Grower has been revised to reflect these advances with new chapters that provide essential information on greenhouse design, function, and methods for crop production and management. With approximately 40% additional material in the second edition, the book is a state-of-the-art, comprehensive guide.
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Is growing marijuana permitted where you live? A hydroponic system is your homegrown solution.

With marijuana laws changing rapidly, millions of gardeners with an interest in growing Cannabis can finally step out of their curtained basements and raise this unique and ancient plant without worry and in plain view.

As with any other plant we grow, you'll find a wide range of strategies for growing marijuana. The variables between approaches are many, including success rates, security, and cost. Indoor, water-based hydroponic systems are the best option for just...
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Grow Your Own Selection of Fruit, Vegetables, and Herbs With This Proven Step-By-Step Guide to Hydroponics!
 2nd Edition: Updated May 2016
Diagrams and Pictures Included to Help You Build Your Own System

INCLUDES BONUSES: Starting a Hydroponics Business & The Essential Aquaponics Guide!

This essential hydroponics guide gives you the proven step-by-step methods for creating and managing your own successful hydroponic system. With this, you will have the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to grow a selection of herbs, vegetables, and flowers...
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Pushing Ice

2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach.

In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny-for Janus has many surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome...
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Orphans of the Sky

A fix-up consisting of the novelette "Universe" (1941) and the novella "Common Sense" (1941). First published in 1963.

Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the Universe, and as long as the sacred Convertor was fed, the lights would continue to glow and the air would...
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Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century includes something for everyone, from urban apartment dwellers to suburbanites to countryside residents.



With step-by-step guidance and techniques, Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century teaches you how to reduce waste, use wind and solar energy to power your home, and grow your own food. Learn how to make practice changes for a simpler, greener, and cleaner life.

This modern manual is perfect for both urban and rural readers, covering eco projects, plant-by-plant and animal-by-animal identification,...
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Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)

Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself on a collision course that results in a desperate romance, and a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience. less

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The Aquaponic Farmer is the only complete practical guide to understanding, constructing, and operating a family-farm scale commercial cold-water aquaponic system for raising trout and vegetables. It details a proven commercial Deep Water Culture system, providing step-by-step design, construction, and management principles, based on actual production numbers from a successful aquaponic farm in British Columbia. less

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Stop Waiting and Start Growing Your Own Vegetables and Fruits Today!
There is Nothing Better Than Walking Into Your House, Plucking a Fresh Vegetable and Eating it Right There.
That is something that you can be doing every single day with hydroponics. It enables you to grow your own fruits, vegetables, or flowers in your house so that you will always have fresh produce. The only problem is that hydroponic growing can be difficult to master..

Luckily we've got you covered. This book was designed for both the beginner and experienced grower. It has step by...
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Are you interested in growing your own vegetables in a system that is completely natural? Have you been thinking about hydroponic gardening but think it may be expensive to install? It is less costly than you may have imagined, and this book will help you build your dream!

Hydroponic gardening, where plants are grown in a symbiotic environment that also benefits fish and other aquatic life, is an ancient practice that has been around for thousands of years. It is becoming more prevalent in the modern day,...
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Moonfall

It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.

Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.

But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new comet. Named for its discover, Tomikois a "sun-grazer,"an interstellar wanderer with a hundred times the mass and ten...
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Hydroponics for Everyone

A simple guide to hydroponic gardening for the beginner as well as the most accomplished hydroponic gardener. This completely revised and updated fourth edition is the most up-to-date and simple guide to hydroponic gardening. less

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Hobby Hydroponics

Hobby Hydroponics is an overview and evaluation of various indoor commercially available hydroponic units. The objective is to inform the reader of the growing aspects of hydroponics at the home level. This includes some of the cultural practices to care for your plants indoors and how to provide them with adequate light, temperatures, etc. to obtain productive plants. The book also describes the types of crops specific hydroponic hobby units are best suited for. Dr. Resh understands that there are many hobby units available on the market and that at times it is difficult for... more

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Wireless

Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" ("Denver Post") in his first major short story collection.
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as "Accelerando, Halting State," and "Saturn's Children" delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction- including a novella original to this volume- brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.
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As featured in the New York Times and named to "Best Garden Books of 2014" by the Chicago Tribune

It takes just a few dollars and a few days for you to start enjoying fresh, healthy produce grown indoors in your own home. Imagine serving a home-cooked meal highlighted with beet, arugula, and broccoli microgreens grown right in your kitchen, accompanied by sautéed winecap mushrooms grown in a box of sawdust in your basement. If you have never tasted microgreens, all you really need to do is envision all the flavor of an entire vegetable plant concentrated into a...
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PRODUCE YOUR OWN PRODUCE!
Potatoes need to be dried out first, then planted between January and March.
The stems of romaine lettuce will start to sprout roots in water in just 5–10 days.
Great to cook with, ginger is also a remedy for stomach pains and colds.
Individual coriander stems can't be regrown—make sure you have the roots intact.
NASA considers sweet potatoes an essential crop for all future space exploration missions!
You can easily regrow scallions both in water and in soil!
Don't throw a mango core away—grow an exotic tree instead!
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Modern apartment dwellers who want to enjoy green growing things often lack the space for a garden. But if you have any room at all you can create a beautiful terrarium! This book shows how to build and maintain unique mini-gardens full of lush, oxygen-boosting plants. Craft blogger Enid Gonzalez presents 31 cutting-edge, contemporary terrarium designs that will add a decorative organic presence to even the smallest room. Each imaginative project features inexpensive materials, common plants, and step-by-step building instructions. Creative Terrariums also includes expert advice for... more

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Marijuana seeds are legal to buy and—with some soil, water, and light—can grow into one of humanity’s favorite pastimes. Call it pot, bud, cannabis, ganja, dope—if you have the seeds, you can grow the weeds. Here are step-by-step directions to growing and managing your own marijuana plants. The author discusses both in-door and outdoor growing, including information on:


• Choosing the right plants for your needs

• Where to buy seeds

• How to germinate the seeds

• How to nurture the plants

• How to prepare the final product
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The Vertical Farm

Feeding the World in the 21st Century

"The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today."--Sting

Imagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm.

When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier...
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A simple step-by-step system for identifying, repairing, and preventing problems with marijuana plants.

What's Wrong with My Marijuana Plant? is the first problem-solving book for marijuana growers with an effective and easy-to-use visual diagnostic system pioneered by Deardorff and Wadsworth for identifying pest, disease, and environmental problems by symptom. What are those rusty spots on your leaves? What bug is eating your buds? Why are your sativa sprouts covered in fuzz? Find out fast AND learn how to fix it! This book contains all-organic solutions (vitally...
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An illustrated guide to growing plentiful fruits and vegetables in the driest of American climates. less

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Idiot's Guides

Growing Marijuana

As marijuana laws in the United States become less restrictive, more and more people are searching for basic marijuana gardening instructions. Cultivating pot isn't like growing houseplants or vegetables, especially if you desire maximum potency and yield. It takes precision. Among other things, you need female plants, very specific temperature, humidity and lighting at different times during the plant's lifespan, special nutrients, and the correct harvesting procedures. Idiot's Guides: Growing Marijuana covers it all, in a simple, concise way-- with tons of full-color photography and... more

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With science showing that soil-less gardening results in higher yields and much less water waste, hydroponics are on their way to becoming the primary gardening method of the future, though this technique has been used for centuries. If you want to start your own low-maintenance, healthy garden, this book has everything you need to take you from seed to sprout and beyond. less

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An updated edition of the classic guide to hydroponics, providing a thorough introduction to soilless gardening.
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Learn About Hydroponics Today!
(WITH PICTURE & DIAGRAM INCLUDED)
Did you ever think about how it would be like to grow your own fruits and vegetables without taking up too much space? Do you think that all farming methods except soil-based one are expensive?
This book will prove you wrong. !!
"YES!!," you really can grow your own fruits and vegetables even if you don't have huge backyard. And "NO!!," you don't have to spend too much money on the way.
At some point of our lives, we want to rely on ourselves when it comes to growing various plants. It has...
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A beginner's guide to growing weed at home, featuring straightforward advice for designing indoor and outdoor cannabis gardens, choosing seed varieties, buying equipment, planting, pot harvesting, storage, stash security, troubleshooting, and more.
     
This beginner’s guide to growing cannabis at home features straightforward advice for designing both indoor and outdoor marijuana gardens, from choosing and obtaining the most potent and prolific seed varieties to buying the right equipment and setting up your grow room. Steering clear of unnecessary scientific and technical...
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Commercial Hydroponics

Explains how 86 different types of plants can be grown using hydroponic systems. less

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The Ultimate Guide to Aquaponics Gadening
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This book contains proven steps and strategies for mastering aquaponics gardening in only a few simple steps. Many people want to learn how to grow their own food but never learn the necessary information necessary to make this happen.

In this book I am going to take your hand and show you exactly what you need to do to create an efficient aquaponics system that can yield...
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This "Aquaponics" book contains proven steps and strategies on how to plan, set up and maintain an aquaponics system right in your own home or backyard. The system may look a bit intimidating, but this book will walk you through every step. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... An Introduction To Aquaponics Gardening Aquaponics Gardening Benefits Step-By-Step Guide For Starting Aquaponics Gardening Start Up Costs Of Aquaponics Gardening Seeds To Use For Aquaponics Garden Best Plants To Use For Your Aquaponics Garden Best Fish To Use In Your Aquaponics... more

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Have you ever wondered what aquaponics was all about? Is it viable for your situation? This book is a good overview to help answer these questions and more.

Aquaponics is the revolutionary science where plants are grown in water instead of soil. This water also cultures fish. The wastes produced by the farmed fish or other aquatic creatures supplies the nutrients for the plants, and in turn purifies the water.

Aquaponics, when set up correctly, can, be self-sustaining and, be a healthy source for both fish and plants. Aquaponics At Home is a beginner's guide to this...
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Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners!
Hydroponics (hydro = water + ponics = labor) gardening is basically growing plants without the help of soil. The fact that hydroponics gardening allows you to grow your plants about 3o to 50 percent faster than if you planted them in the soil in a traditional garden is one of the reasons why many gardeners find this type of gardening worth working with.

Even if the growing conditions in both soil and hydroponics gardening are the same, you will find that the latter is more effective for growing healthier herbs and vegetables. The reason for...
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Cannabidiol, also known as CBD, is a substance extracted from the cannabis plant that has been proven to have all the healing powers of marijuana without the psychoactive properties. CBD is known to help with anxiety, Alzheimer's disease, seizures, Huntington's disease, nausea and vomiting, and more.

It's no surprise that marijuana has healing powers, but whether or not using it to treat common ailments should be legalized continues to be a hot topic of debate among government leaders and medical practitioners alike. Marijuana comes from the cannabis plant, an herb whose...
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The Ultimate Gardening Box Set: 3 Books in 1 Learn all about Hydroponics and Aquaponic Gardening Today! Learn how you can grow healthier plants safe and fast without actually using soil! Hydroponics gardening is an old technique of growing plants without the soil. Ancient Babylonians and ancient Chinese people already discovered this method hundreds of years ago. The modern technology is incorporating new ideas and innovations in hydroponics making it more popular nowadays. As a beginner, you can start by developing your own hydroponic system at home! The equipment, materials and medium to... more

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The book was written with the home gardener in mind, the one who wants to build a hydroponic system or two to grow their plants. This Large Print version has been specially edited for the older generation who would like to set up a small system in their courtyard or unit. 'COMPLETE HYDROPONIC GARDENING BOOK: 6 DIY garden set ups for growing vegetables, strawberries, lettuce, herbs and more' explains how to build 6 different types of systems to suit YOUR needs. 'COMPLETE HYDROPONIC GARDENING BOOK: 6 DIY garden set ups for growing vegetables, strawberries, lettuce, herbs and more' will provide... more

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