Should You Choose Soil Or Hydro For Indoor Gardening? Is Soil Or Hydro Growing Cheaper?
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Ashley is a soil scientist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are YouTube, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s YouTube channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her YouTube channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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36 Comments
Hydro all day! Soil makes too much leaf and not enough bud! ✌💖🍁
I brought inside baby Strawberry plants put them in soil and under a grow light I already have one flower but not sure what fertilizer to use thx love your channel
Thank you.
Both please!
Soil !!!👨🌾🌱
A mix of both.
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I want to start a YouTube but clueless lol
A mix of both methods would be awesome. Thanks for all the great information you share. I really find it helpful
Thank you, Ashley, this is a very informative video, and it will help so many people. I appreciate your knowledge and willingness to share!
i'd love to see DIY hydro!!
I vote for both.
I’ve tried indoor gardening using soil. Didn’t get fungus gnats but seedlings were dampened off. I’m now trying hydro for the first time to grow only microgreens and leafy greens. Your old videos have been really helpful. Thank you!
A suggestion: Please leave the text on the screen longer before moving on in your editing! I have to keep pausing the video to get all the information presented.
What I like about your channel is that I am aways learning. Thank you.
I love your bird❣️ Is she a Conure?
I think I’m going to do micro greens with hemp mats. They are incredibly expensive in my grocery store and very nutritious.
I choose to grow in soil for a number of reasons: 1) no waste (do NOT use synthetic nutrients!); 2) ease-of-ability to move product from indoors to outdoors (or outdoors to indoors if you have your IPM strategy in place); 3) ease of growing (no lab coat required!); 4) when the power goes out for a couple of hours you will not lose your product; 5) I love what worms, microbes and biology (soil-food-web-ish) do for soil and plants; 6) the "organic" veggies/cannabis grown in hydro taste as bad as the store-bought equivalents; 7) I can intercrop and grow perpetually; 8) I love the feel, smell, and benefit of having living beds of soil in my house.
I would love to see a sub $100 hydro countertop herb set up.
I vote for both, I have built my own hydro system but am also trying at growing in soil under grow lights but I’m kind of new to both and love learning. It’s becoming a necessity to be able to afford healthy food. Thank you for all you do to teach us so much 😊
Omg grow more veggies in soils! Im growing Serrano and Cubanelle peppers 🌶 with Sansi growlight
I tried hydroponics decades ago in with a simple set up of washed pea gravel, a 9 inch tall trough made of wood water proofed with fiberglass resin. Yes that really worked. ! small fountain pump and a timer for the lights and a timer for the pump. If I had known more about plants I would have continued but I got spider mites.
When I use soil it always grows white, fuzzy mold. I would like to learn more about cheaper hydroponic systems. I have been enjoying my various lettuce types and cherry tomatoes. I am using glass jars for my tomatoes.
I need to figure out indoor bug control
I use aquaponics to get the seeds started then I transferred to soil. With aquaponics you don't have to worry about the seeds drying out and they almost always germinate either on or ahead of schedule. Also in the 1st initial couple of weeks you don't have to worry about you're newly sprouted plants drying out.
In my greenhouse the gravel aquaponics bed always seems to stay warmer than the soil as well.
Love, love, love!!! I’m so excited for this series 🤗 Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us. We’ve seen your ginormous carrots; dang that music at the end got me even more pumped!
what is the name of the auto water pots you are using?
I started doing hydro. I'm a huge pepper eater and the price of pepper in the winter is so insane that within a few weeks I'm likely to break even. (we usually eat 10-15 peppers a week)
I would like to see more soil information because I’m not really into cleaning tubes and a bunch of algae. I want to grow salad stuff( lettuce, cherry tomatoes and cucumbers) also I would like to grow potatoes. Love your videos btw
Your series comes at the right moment! I just bought soil to start lettuce and herbs and greens indoors. I am totally in for both, but mostly soil.
Soil for me can't do all that water stuff have a wood floor and a wooden head.
I'd like to see Lettuce and Tomatoes. Specifically Romaine Lettuce and Tiny Tim Tomatoes. And in soil please. Show us how you set up your self watering pots. Thanks
Def soil because I'm cheap. But I'll watch both. Some of my leafy greens grown indoors come out really leggy so I'd like to figure out why. I didn't think you could really grow peppers or any fruit indoors, that's interesting
Mostly interested in soil since its cheaper and because I start my own seedlings with grow lights, I already have a part of the setup. For the curiosity and the general knowledge, I would also like some hydro info thrown in but mainly soil is what I am interested in.
Keep up the good work Ashley, love the channel and thank you for all the info! 😀
Soil would be my top choice but interested in the basic cheap hydro setup you mentioned. Loving your channel. Very relevant useful info but not stretched out too long.
Can chemicals from the plastic seep into the food? Especially if it's outside and gets hot from the sun? This is what's always stopped me from trying to start a garden.
I'm interested in growing watermelon melons cucumbers broccoli and lettuce and tomatoes on the inside of my house cuz if people see that you have a garden in your backyard they're going to steal your food so it's better if I do it inside the house
I think you should just show us what you've got, starting with whatever you feel would be best or looks best at the moment.
Hi, you're amazing! I live in central Ontario and have some of the same challenges you do with winter. I am growing lettuce indoors in soil under grow lights and they seem to stall very quickly. Any advice? And I agree with other people commenting on here – your production values have gone way up and that must have taken some effort! Good for you! You deserve a lot more subscribers.