Welcome to the first episode of the daily epic gardening podcast.

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So today we're talking about hydroponics specifically what is it.

And when I look at what something is I always look at what the word means.

So if we look at hydroponics, we're looking at hydro and Pono's.

Hydro of course meaning water and Pono's meaning labor.

So when we're talking about hydroponics,

we are talking about a method of gardening

where water does all of the work. That means we don't use

soil. So you might be thinking okay not using soil that sounds pretty

futuristic right this must have been invented in the last couple decades. Yes and no. The earliest examples of

hydroponics actually date back to the hanging gardens of Babylon and the

floating gardens of China. So humans have used these techniques for thousands of years.

So the general theory remains the same, but modern technology has actually enabled us to grow these plants faster, stronger, and in some ways healthier.

Now when we talk about modern hydroponics, the earliest reference is from a man named

William Frederick Garrick.

He was working at the University of California, Berkeley

and started to popularize the idea

that plants could be grown in a solution of nutrients and water.

And because this was a new idea, the general public, as well as his colleagues,

did not believe that this could be possible.

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