The terms hydroponics gardening refers to growing plants without the traditional use of soil. Instead it employs another form of growing medium, often times more successful with higher yields produced. With the hydroponics system, any gardener would be hard pressed to find a reason to go back to traditional gardening.

Finding the right hydroponics systems for your needs is a difficult decision. To help you out, here are three of the most common types of gardening using hydroponics:

• Ebb and flow system – The ebb and flow system is one of the more favored ways of hydroponics gardening. It is known as an active system as well as being a recovery type. The plant is contained in a reservoir filled with a nutrient solution. The nutrients are pumped in to the plant. Once the water reaches a preset level, it is drained in to a river while oxygen is sucked in by the roots.

• Aeroponics system - Although not technically a hydroponics system, aeroponics uses much of the same basic principles in water-based, soil-less plant growth. However, aeroponics implements the use of air vapors instead. The plants are hung on top of a reservoir in an aeroponic system and the container is sealed tightly. A device creates vapors out of the nutrient solution which is then sprayed in the reservoir, engulfing the dangling plant roots. The roots soak up the nutrients quicker and allow for great oxygenation capabilities, causing the plants to grow more heavily.
In an aeroponics setup the roots are separated from the tops of the plants and misted with a water/nutrient solution. These systems possess advantages such as helping to fully aerate the roots of the plant, stimulating growth. Aeroponics is also a cost saver for larger needs since it uses less growing medium.

Areoponics cloning also revolutionized the culturing of plants. Aeroponics cloning permitted the entire culturing process to be carried out in a single unit. Numerous plants can now be replicated simply from a single stem cutting. This was a major advantage to green houses attempting to propagate plants normally propagated by seed.

• Deep Water Culture Hydroponic Systems - The deep water culture was actually the first type of system invented for hydroponics. It is basically a straightforward growing system. There is a reservoir filled with nutrient solution, atop of which the gardener sets a floating platform which contains several planters. The roots of the plant are drowned in the nutrient solution, with the rest of the plant being held by the planters. Deep water culture systems, even for how simple, can yield the highest producing harvest of all considering the other systems inability to maximize nutrient and oxygen levels.