What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. Today we're talking about a question that I got from Eric and so his question is this he says of all the hydroponic setups out there. What's the best system for strawberries in terms of cost complexity and results? Now it's an interesting question because strawberries are one of the few fruits that you do grow hydroponically and commercial growers actually do this as well.

And so we could answer it from the commercial growers perspective, but of all of us out there,

me included, I don't think many of us are commercial growers.

And so what I'm going to do is answer this from the perspective of a hobbyist grower like me

and hopefully like you as well.

Now, there are only so many ways

that a hydroponic system can be set up.

You've got deep water culture, a wicking system,

a kratky method, ebb and flow,

also known as flood and drain,

a nutrient film technique.

There's aeroponics, fogponics, those sorts of things,

but those are sort of modifications on other types of methods.

And now, with with strawberries you want a lot of plants and so

immediately that starts to rule out a few different systems. So to me that rules

out deep water culture because a lot of plants means that

reservoir is going to need to be relatively large and you're growing it

directly above the reservoir. So I would rule that one out. It would be the easiest in terms of cost from a hobbyist's perspective.

Now, the next thing that I would consider would be maybe an ebb and flow or flood and drain.

Well, that could work.

You're just gonna need a relatively large flood table

if you're gonna do it that way.

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