Have you ever considered setting up your own hydroponic indoor garden? The advantages and benefits over soil based gardening are many.

Here is a list of advantages and benefits of hydroponic indoor gardening:

1. You will not need to buy any pesticides! This is because the majority of garden pests thrive in the soil, they will not be able to get near to your hydroponic plants.

2. Once you have made all your initial set-up costs, running costs are around 20% lower with indoor hydroponic gardens.

3. You will be able to grow more plants in a smaller area! This is true even though the plants will in fact grow larger, the roots will be smaller as they don’t need to expand to find nutrients in hydroponic gardens.

4. Maintenance time is greatly reduced! There is no watering as they already have all the water they need, weeding doesn’t exist in indoor hydroponic gardens either. In fact all you need to do is pick the fruit or vegetables as and when required.

5. The yield is year round! After all, you have manipulated the growing conditions so that the plants are always happy. When its off season, you can sell the produce for higher prices.

6. You can grow them anywhere; garden, greenhouse, rooftop, window ledge, bedroom, attic or cellar.

7. Hydroponic plants grow on average 40% larger than their soil based brothers. This is because you have given them their ideal growing conditions and constant access to all the nutrients they need.

8. The main problem for novice gardeners is under or over watering which can kill plants. This problem is eliminated with hydroponic gardens as you don’t need to water them!

9. For reasons already listed above, hydroponic plants grow up to 50% faster than other plants. This has clear advantages if you’re feeding a large family or are planning on making money out of it.