The traditional Dutch Bucket System has a siphon, or overflow outtake tube approx 2-3 inches from the bottom of a bucket. The Roots of each plant are feeding off of this nutrient rich water system. So the basic idea of the Dutch bucket system is having multiple buckets, which plants grow in filled with a nutrient rich water reservoir, and then recycle the nutrient rich water via a siphon system back to the main reservoir and continually is pumped back through the system. At some point we will be going solar, but to start with we decided to build in the deep water insurance into our system. Our area has Power outages and hydroponics relies on Pumps and electricity. Also research lead us to the successes of Deep Water Systems and this is where we chose to make a hybrid of the two. They have been around for a long time and have proven to be a successful hydroponic set up. A traditional Dutch Bucket Hydroponic system is fairly inexpensive and easy to set up. After researching and watching countless YouTube videos we decided to make a hybrid of a Dutch Bucket system and a Deep Water System. Our research lead us past organics and growing in soil and trying to eliminate the limitations of soil as well.

Our weather can range from hot to cold every day and we also wanted to eliminate pesticides, herbicides, and other harmful chemicals. This choice was based on a few reasons: We needed something that would give us a maximum yield in a minimum space and we wanted to have minimal variables. We decided to set up a greenhouse hydroponic system at our urban homestead. If you really want to be able to produce top quality fruits and vegetables as efficiently and reliably as possible, then you should consider hydroponics.

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